CUVIC 2014 - Beyond Engagement: Creating Integration, Innovation and Impact

Join us for three exciting days of keynote presentations, workshops, teaching circles, poster sessions, field trips, networking receptions and a gala evening celebration.

The University of Victoria has been a leader in community university engagement since 2007 and has become a major catalyst for community-university engaged research and practice, locally, nationally and globally. We are now pleased to present CUVIC 2014 which has been created to move beyond showcasing community university engagement …. to strengthening its capacity to impact societal well-being.

Community university partnerships in research, learning and knowledge mobilization are a growing trend in countries around the world as nations and regions seek solutions to inter-related social, economic and environmental issues and challenges to their sustainability. Universities have increasingly been focused on curriculum, programs, research and knowledge mobilization that can be applied to communities and civil society who are working to manage and create change. Numerous new national and global organizations have been established (many offering global conferences and symposiums) as both academics and community constituents’ work to co-create knowledge, mobilize it to inform practice and policy and enhance the social, economic and environmental conditions of people, communities, nations and the world.

CUVIC will kick off the evening of Tuesday, May 20th with a keynote presentation by political icon, Aboriginal arbitrator & scholar Bob Rae. This community celebration will also include displays, musical interludes and an opportunity to network with peers and associates. Over the course of the next two days, the conference will also include a keynote presentations by renowned ethnobotanist and engaged scholar Dr. Nancy Turner.

With more than 100 abstracts and submissions CUVIC will be rich with exciting and thought provoking workshops and presentations on a diverse range of topics that showcase and celebrate how universities and communities continue to contribute to the public good and leverage the knowledge and resource capacity of universities to address community needs. CUVIC 2014 will reflect on these efforts and enable community-university innovation and action within the institutional, Indigenous, national and global context.

The conference will be of interest to faculty, students, community (business, Indigenous nations and organizations, non-government organizations, community groups, funders and governments), higher education administrators, researchers, scholars, national and global community-university and community-based research networks.

Come join us in scenic Victoria (known as the "City of Gardens") located on Vancouver Island which was rated the ‘Top Island’ in the Continental US and Canada and one of the ‘Top Ten Island in the World’ by the 2012 Travel+Leisure World's Best Awards.

HAVE YOU REGISTERED YET?

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES APRIL 30

REGISTER NOW