Stephanie Bauer – Fledge

Fledge Health Inc. is an Education & Health Technology company based in Calgary, Alberta. We believe that every child should have the opportunity to thrive and so are building the world’s most comprehensive online platform for wellness & education. Using research backed and evidence based programming, we build competency and capacity in students while building […]

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Precious Akpoguma – WEC

Women’s Economic Council is a nonprofit that works to support women in community economic development. The Portraits Project is part of the 50-30 Challenge and will feature stories of women working in leadership roles or on their path to leadership roles. It will showcase the challenges, barriers and how they reached the role they have.

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Rethinking public transit networks using a climate justice lens

Public transit offers both a relatively low GHG-to-passenger ratio and affordable options for local travel in comparison to personal vehicle travel, thusly presenting as a key area for making progress toward climate change mitigation and social justice. Working with stakeholders in the Greater Victoria Area, this project will identify, map, and examine three different new […]

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Pop Up Bike Hub mini: Investigating strategies for sustainable community programming and the student employment experience

This research project aims to investigate strategies and approaches for designing and implementing sustainable, community-centered programs that effectively empower employed students, address local community needs, and have positive long-lasting effects on both the community and students. As an organization whose community programming relies heavily on student employment, the expected benefit to the Ecology Action Centre […]

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Rethinking Halifax’s Suburbs as Complete Communities

The Province of Nova Scotia plans to double its population by 2060, resulting in about one million people living in Halifax. To combat climate change and biodiversity loss, Halifax needs to control its urban sprawl and focus growth in already serviced suburban areas. Since the 1960s, sprawling single-family homes which require a car have become […]

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MechMonkey Marketing Internship

MechMonkey is developing a cloud-based Garage Management System to streamline independent garages’ workflow and customer relationship management. The project involves creating a comprehensive marketing strategy to launch the new brand and promote MechMonkey’s offerings. The expected benefits are increased brand visibility, improved messaging, and increased sales for MechMonkey with improved business operations and customer satisfaction.

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UAV Monitoring of Salmon Habitat

This research project addresses needs identified by First Nation communities across BC to develop a framework to gather data regarding the state of salmon habitat in their territories in a way that is community led and driven. The project will conduct experiments leading to the development of a methodological framework and training materials focussed on […]

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Communications and Marketing Intern

Alberta School Boards Association (ASBA) is the provincial association for Alberta’s locally-elected public, catholic and francophone school boards. A key component of the Marketing and Communications Intern’s responsibility is to use market research practices to enhance ASBA’s advocacy and communications efforts with various stakeholders including the Government of Alberta, membership and the public. The intern […]

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Cross-cultural Governance of Okanagan Lake: Entering Ethical Space

This research will inform the co-governance arrangements for the Syilx-led klusxnitk? (Okanagan Lake) Responsibility Plan by exploring the praxis of ethical space in the development and implementation of the plan, and focusing on two themes: worldviews and knowledge systems. The proposed MITACS grant involves researching and developing an ethical space framework for cross-cultural collaboration in […]

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Community Centre Alliance – Fry Family Foundation Scholarship Analysis

This project will provide analysis and recommendations regarding the impact and processes of the Community Centre Alliance-Fry Family Foundation Scholarship Program. Established methods will be used to help the scholarship coordinators identify the goals of the program, and determine the information necessary to ensure those goals are being met through the scholarship program. A review […]

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Le financement de la transition verte des PME Québécoises

Nous ambitionnons, via ce projet de recherche, d’aider les PME québécoises à s’engager dans un virage vert via une offre de financement adaptée à leurs besoins. En d’autres termes, il s’agit de mettre en place un accompagnement au niveau de financement pour intensifier l’engagement des PME dans le virage vert au Québec. Pour ce faire, […]

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