Applications are Due on October 27th
Sustainability Living Lab Funding Program
The aims of this funding opportunity are to;
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Provide experiential learning through internships, classroom projects and project implementation and learning outcomes.
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Provide hands-on learning activities through leadership opportunities in event coordination & programming, workshops, employment and varied forms of engagement opportunities.
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Foster cross-disciplinary partnerships between faculty, staff and students for the purpose of utilising our campus and communities to incubate innovative solutions to sustainability challenges .
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Empower community members to propose and implement projects that improve the sustainability of campus operations, foster community, and build thrive-able new futures
Concordia University's Sustainability Action Plan
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, SLLFP projects must meet the following criteria:
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Core project team must include at least 1 student
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Core project team must include at least 1 faculty and/or staff member
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Project must offer experiential learning opportunity to one or more students
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Project must address at least one of the 5 streams of the Sustainability Action Plan (Sustainable Food Systems; Zero Waste; Climate Action; Sustainability in Research; Sustainability in Curriculum)
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Project must plan to have measurable outcomes*
For more information, refer to the application process page or contact sandra.mouafonouadje@concordia.ca
Funds Remaining:
$130,000
Sustainability Living Labs Funding remaining
Sustainability Living Lab Funded Projects
Chinatown Re-imagined Forum / Montreal 2023 (Re-imagine a future for Chinatowns across North America)
After seeing the success of Vancouver’s first example of Chinatown Re-imagined, the Montréal community plans to host the second edition on September 28-30, 2023 (https://www.chinatownreimagined.ca). This three-day long event will...
Exploring Sustainability Across the Arts
Exploring Sustainability Across the Arts (ESA) is a year-long initiative that aims to explore sustainable alternatives to vinyl signage in museums, galleries, and other arts and cultural spaces, as well...
Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Skills Development Workshop in Data Activism
Over the past two decades, increasingly complex regimes for accessing information have made it challenging for activists to unpack and confront government and corporate practices. Access to information is brokered...
Sustainable Transformations
Creating an interdisciplinary network of scholars, established artists and emerging artists; made up of a majority of Concordia community members. This network of individuals dedicated to social/environmental change will work...
Co-op CultivAction
Market Garden InternshipCSA BasketUrban Agriculture SchoolMarket Garden Internship In partnership with the Concordia Food Coalition, Professor Erik Chevrier and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, CultivAction Solidarity Cooperative proposes...
mind. heart. mouth.
The mind.heart.mouth intergenerational garden offers a positive and innovative approach to building community care and resilience through nature-based experiential learning, which is essential at this time of health, social, and...
MATTEReality: Sustainable Studios
(An extension of the MATTEReality: Reconciling Ceramics and Sustainability) For millennia prior to the industrial revolution, ceramics were produced sustainably in communities around the world. In recent times, however, these...
Deep Time Walk in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal
The Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based Deep Time Walk (DTW) takes inspiration from the DTW App. Created in 2007, this app invites users to walk a distance of 4.6 km while listening to a...
Solvent Recovery Initiative
The goal of the Solvent Recovery Initiative Team is to design protocols to recycle and reuse solvents in chemistry laboratories at Concordia. Starting as a team of 15 in the...
Engaging Solarity
The Milieux Solar Media Project explores the affordances of solar energy for digital communication systems through research-creation and learning-by-doing. Against the backdrop of the Internet’s carbon footprint, our project is...