Community Info
Creating Rural Connections
Through Collaboration
Welcome to the section of ARDN’s website created especially for Alberta’s rural communities!
Have an idea for a research project that could benefit your community? In need of a specific tool kit? Just searching for information? This is the place for you!
Do you wonder how ARDN can benefit you? Download our Community Brochure.
Check out our new Rural Thoughts page for everday ideas about rural Alberta communities.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please contact Judy Ferguson, ARDN’s director of community and member engagement (780-449-1006 ext 225).
Rural Alberta Education and Training Needs Assessment Survey Results
Alberta Rural Development Network (ARDN) recently conducted two education and training needs assessment surveys. One was for people residing in East Central Alberta, and the other for people residing outside East Central Alberta. ARDN would like to thank everyone who filled out the survey. The reports are available below:
Alberta Council of Technologies
Alberta Council of Technologies Society (ABCtech) provides a point of contact and communication for Alberta’s technology leaders and entrepreneurs. Developing alliances for emerging technology industries.This site is more than a gateway to Alberta’s technology industry associations; it is also a link to the tools and information Alberta businesses need to commercialize their technologies and fund their growth. ABC Tech also hosts many events.
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Emerging Technologies - ABCtech’s 2011 Schedule
October
*Conference and ACTIA (Alberta CleanTech Industry Alliance) Convention at The Mariiott River Cree in Edmonton on October 14-15th HOSTING: Electric Mobility Canada, ACTIA and ABCtech.
November
*Cell Therapy Clinicians Conferences in Edmonton and Calgary. HOSTING: AHIA and BioAlberta (pending), Alberta Cell Therapy Alliance and ABCtech.
Warner Hockey School - Funded By Rural Alberta Development Fund
The Warner Hockey School was chosen to highlight through video because it reveals how a town in danger of vanishing pulled itself up by its bootstraps and created one of the most recognized hockey academies in North America. The Warner video is the first case study in a series called "Small Town, Big Sky." The case studies are designed to tell the motivational stories of innovative rural communities and the people who call them home.
