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International Community Outreach Program Social Business Case Competition

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The ICOP Social Business Case Competition stimulates a culture of community and social responsibility among 70 budding Concordia Business Graduates (MBA & GDBA students). It allows students not only to apply knowledge and skills gained during their studies, but also opens views about a different kind of business model, a departure from the traditional profit-driven…

Cinema Politica

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For 16 years Cinema Politica screened independent political films and video by Canadian and international artists at Concordia University every Monday. Cinema Politica hosts films that cover a series of sustainability topics; In Fall 2019 the films comprising the Mining Injustices, Toxic Chemicals: Communities Fight Back series deal with different environmental, social justice and sustainability…

Rethinking Africa’s Urban Futures

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Rethinking Africa’s Urban Futures- the second Concordia-McGill African Studies Conference, aims to bring futurists, sustainable development advocates and scholars from various African countries or part of the African diaspora to discuss empirical and policy actions and initiate partnerships among Concordia community and African based scholars to work jointly for a sustainable, prosperous and equitable Africa.…

Tax Clinic

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The Tax clinic is an annual student-run event registered with the CRA’s Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP). Its purpose is to give back to the downtown Montreal community all while enhancing the student life at Concordia University. The majority of the individuals benefiting from our service come from a low-income bracket (many of them…

CURE- Community-University Research Exchange

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CURE is working on developing a website that would help increase accessibility to mental health services by listing racialized mental health professionals. Often, racialized people do not seek support for their mental health needs due to the systemic racism they face as well as stigma in our society. Developing this website would mean offering people…

ConcordAI

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ConcordAI / Artificial Intelligence Concordia organizes free AI Research & Development Mentorship Programs that provide participants from all backgrounds the opportunity to work with exceptional mentors, acquire real-world experience and skills in AI, and to push the boundaries of AI in environmentally sustainable research and development and open innovation projects. In addition to providing experiential…

No Crying at the Dinner Table

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“No Crying at the Dinner Table” is an experimental-documentary that capture the directors family’s confessions and reunifies them through confrontation and listening in hopes to start dialogues within families and minority communities. In 2011, 20.6% of Canada’s population were immigrants. 17.4% were second-generation Canadians [Statistics Canada]. Some of the more obvious adversities that minorities face…

Queering the Map

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Queering The Map (QTM) is a community generated digital counter-mapping project that aims to archive fleeting moments of queer existence and resistance in relation to physical space. Participants of the project anonymously share stories of queer significance and locate them on the map with a drop-pin. The project intends to leave ‘queerness’ open to endless…

Take Heed

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Take Heed is a set of wearable vests that use moving panels and haptic feedback to create an intimate and immersive experience that opens a discussion on mental health. The interdisciplinarity of Take Heed involves programming, electronics, a web database, and experimental fashion design. Take Heed is a year-long medium-term project that encourages female and…

There’s Something in the Water- Book Launch and Panel

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A launch of Dr. Ingrid Waldron’s book, There’s Something in the Water, based on her Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health Project (ENRICH), which is addressing the social, economic, political, and health effects of environmental racism in Nova Scotia. The book launch was followed by a panel of speakers from communities impacted by environmentalism…
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