Collaboration

Increase sustainability-related opportunities for collaboration between students, staff, and faculty and the wider community.

Promote and help facilitate innovative partnerships and collaboration between academic departments to research and propose solutions to sustainability challenges (AC 3.1).

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Increase the number of students and faculty involved with, or exposed to, interdisciplinary research and teaching connected to sustainability.

Promotion of Collaboration

Promote sustainability projects, research, collaboration, and funding opportunities on campus.

Creation of a Sustainability Institute

Create a sustainability institute that brings together all facets of sustainability.

Commitment to Sustainability

Increase the number of staff, students, and faculty with a commitment to sustainability.

Diverse Expertise in Sustainability

Continually increase number of staff and faculty with diverse expertise in sustainability.

Provide sustainability-related opportunities in community-based teaching and work-integrated-learning (AC 3.2).

Experiential Learning

Create partnerships and programs with local government, NGOs, and businesses to provide sustainability-related immersive experiences for students outside the classroom.

Strive to connect research programs with the external community to contribute to, and learn from, sustainability solutions locally and globally (AC 3.3).

Sustainability Community Connectors

Develop and maintain a list of sustainability-related resources to help the Office of Sustainability facilitate campus and community connections.

Global Knowledge Base Contribution

Contribute to the growing global knowledge base of sustainability practices through contributing sustainability research, papers, successes, and lessons learned.

Addressing Real World Challenges

Seek out and support interdisciplinary learning opportunities and provide students with projects that address real world sustainability challenges.

Alumni Connection

Develop network of alumni to connect with MacEwan research team to further sustainability.

Create formal partnerships with the community to help co-develop innovative solutions to sustainability-related problems and accelerate knowledge transfer (AC 3.4).

Social Innovation Hub

Create a dynamic space where community members collaborate with the campus community to co-create social innovations (Social Innovation Institute).

Encourage collaboration on research related to campus-specific and community-specific priorities related to sustainability (AC 3.5).

Local Collaboration

Develop innovative partnerships with key Alberta stakeholders, on and off campus, to help co-contribute and co-create sustainability related research and learning opportunities.

National and International Collaboration

Encourage and facilitate collaboration with academic communities nationally and internationally to co-develop shared sustainability solutions. Digital communications are encouraged to reduce the carbon impact.

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