Networking Events

Event: Aboriginal Leadership and Governance Training in Rural Northern Alberta
Institution: Northern Lakes College
Project Lead: Monica Kreiner
Location: Wingate Hotel, Edmonton
Date: November or December 2010
Description: This event will share information about current Aboriginal leadership training opportunities, identify unmet needs and gaps in existing opportunities, and work toward solutions

Event: Agro-Literacy and Sustainability
Institution: SAIT
Project Lead:
Location: Calgary
Date: June 2011
Description: The event is an exciting opportunity to connect our great growers of the region with the Chefs who actively promote local products to the dining community. This conference has the potential of increasing the partnership of key stakeholder groups who are actively promoting local food not just to the culinary world, but the general public.

Event: Building Mental Health Response Capacity in Rural Alberta
Institution: University of Alberta - Augustana Campus
Project Lead: Lars Hallstrom
Location: Viking
Date: August 2010
Description: This event will scope, assess, and being the design of a Rural Alberta Mental Health Crisis Response program that links university-based researchers, the Canadian Mental Health Association and first response caregivers such as  paramedics, police, firefighters).

Event: Community Engagement in Post-Secondary Education Solutions
Institution: Bow Valley College
Project Lead: Anna Kae Todd
Location: Strathmore, Okotoks, Cochrane, High River
Date: Fall 2010
Description: This event will explore the readiness of rural Albertan communities to participate in increasing access to adult education and receive input from communities on what types of education is needed

Event: Comprehensive Community Human Resource Profiles - Bow Valley College Rural Region
Institution: Bow Valley College
Project Lead: Anna Kae Todd and Brett Bergie
Location: Multiple
Date: Completed by August 31, 2010
Description: The goal is to meet with communities and  produce by August 31, 2010, eleven ’community human resource profiles’ for the communities of Airdrie, Strathmore, Chestermere, High River, Okotoks, Cochrane, Canmore, Banff, Beiseker/Irricana, Crossfield, and  Black Diamond/Turner Valley. These community human resource oriented profiles will create an up to date base of information for communities, educators, government and other organizations to base service decisions on focused on the issue of human development.

Event: Continuing Care Needs in the Grande Prairie Area
Institution: University of Alberta
Project Lead: Alberta Cook
Location: Grand Prairie Regional College
Date: May 2011
Description: The networking event will provide an opportunity to identify what continuing care needs are not being met locally, and whether there are issues that post-secondary institutions can address through training and education programs for students and/or practitioners, and through research.

Event: Continuing Care Needs in the High Prairie/Slave Lake Area
Institution: NorQuest College
Project Lead: Jason Dunne
Location: Northern Lakes College
Date: May 2010
Description: The networking event will provide an opportunity to identify what continuing care needs are not being met locally, and whether there are issues that post-secondary institutions can address through training and education programs for students and/or practitioners, and through research.

Event: Continuing Care Needs in the Fort McMurray Area
Institution: University of Alberta
Project Lead: Albert Cook
Location: Keyano College
Date: May 2011
Description: The networking event will provide an opportunity to identify what continuing care needs are not being met locally, and whether there are issues that post-secondary institutions can address through training and education programs for students and/or practitioners, and through research.

Event: Enhancing Greenhouse Sustainability using Biofuels and Green Design
Institution: SAIT
Project Lead: Reece Winter
Location: Calgary
Date: May 2011
Description: This event will bring together biofuels researchers and commercial greenhouse growers from around the province. This event may also appeal to greenhouse manufacturers, the broader nursery industry, and businesses with an interest in developing renewable heating alternatives and/or biofuels solutions for their operations.

Event: Framework for a Provincial Caregiver Strategy
Institution: University of Alberta
Project Lead: Wendy Duggleby
Location: Calgary or Edmonton
Date: October 9, 2010
Description: This event will bring family caregivers together to meet with other caregivers and organizations to assist the development of a provincial caregiver strategy

Event: Future Directions in Providing First-Responders with Protection from Workplace Trauma
Institution: SAIT
Project Lead: Dan Guinan
Location: Banff Centre
Date: October 6-7, 2010
Description: This gathering will assist in placing Alberta in a leading position in protecting first responders and other workers exposed to traumatic stress

Event: Managing Alberta’s Water - Linking Science to Citizen Management
Institution: University of Alberta - Augustana Campus
Project Lead: Karsten Mundel
Location: Red Deer
Date: October 2010
Description: This event will seek to develop collaborative relationships among the large universities in the province and the analytic needs of the Watershed Planning Advisory Councils. The event will raise awareness about the benefits and opportunities that social science research can bring to natural resource management.

Event: Portage College Community Social Work Program Mini Conference
Institution: Portage College
Project Lead: Deborah Foster
Location: Lac La Biche
Date: August 21 - 22, 2010
Description: This event is a conference for Human Services professionals and credits will be given to students from Northern Lakes College and Portage who attend.

Event: Unwrapping the Research
Institution: Keyano College
Project Lead: Cindy Amerongen
Location: Fort McMurray
Date: October 22-24, 2010
Description: This conference will be structured to facilitate dialogue and learning opportunities among researchers, local residents, and to stimulate creative thinking about innovating opportunities

Event: Outcome Mapping Orientation
Institution: NorQuest
Project Lead: Elaine Soetaert
Location: Edmonton   
Date: June 17, 2010
Description: This event will begin to build the capacity of Alberta research and community development networks to use Outcome Mapping to demonstrate our collective impact on community learning and economic development

Event: Putting Down Roots: Our Diverse Communities
Institution: NorQuest
Project Lead: Cheryl Whitelaw
Location: Multiple
Date: November 26, 2010 
Description: This event will be a regional exchange for individuals and organizations in Alberta communities who are focused on supporting newcomers through language programming, welcoming, and other social sciences

Event: Rural Alberta Deliberates on Climate Change
Institution: University of Alberta - Augustana Campus
Project Lead: Lars Hallstrom
Location: Red Deer
Date: Fall 2010
Description: This event supports the first of several events that will link extant activities exploring deliberative democracy and climate change. A preliminary meeting of the core researchers involved will focus on three main strategies: building upon the Community University Research Alliances (CURA) and Alberta Climate Dialogue (ABCD); linking the researchers to important sources; and developing an evidence-informed program of public engagement and deliberative democratic practices that link the research community with other communities facing issues around climate change.

Event: Rural Health Workforce Development Event
Institution: Bow Valley College
Project Lead: Bill DuPerron
Location: Rural Alberta
Date: Fall 2010
Description: This event will promote the development of the health care workforce in rural Alberta, find ways to increase access to rural educational programs and services, and build links to stakeholders, governments, employers, and more

Event: Rural Sustainability Research Cluster and Community of Practice
Institution: University of Alberta, Augustana Campus
Project Lead: Lars Hallstrom
Location: Edmonton
Date: Monthly from September 2010 - March 2012
Description: This event will create a continuing venue for knowledge exchange between the research community based at the University of Alberta, rural communities and the various departments and ministries within the Province of Alberta working in the broad areas of rural development, sustainability and capacity. It is intended to fund a series of recurring events, happening on a monthly or bi-monthly basis (depending on demand) in Edmonton, and to create a cluster of practitioners, administrators, community representatives and researchers working across the wide range of domains that impact the development and sustainability (broadly defined) of rural communities in the province.

Event: SimuNation
Institution: SAIT
Project Lead: Meena Kumar
Location: Calgary
Date: June 7, 2010
Description: This event brings Patient Simulation Educators together from across the province to participate in an exchange of ideas and techniques designed to improve healthcare practice in Alberta through use of highly realistic and sophisticated Patient Simulation

Event: Taking the Next Steps Alberta: Planning Policy and Participation for Rural Alberta
Institution: University of Alberta, Augustana Campus
Project Lead: Karsten Mundel
Location: Camrose
Date: October 21-25, 2010
Description: This event will bring together university-community collaborations from across Canada to present and discuss the challenges, opportunities and issues facing rural communities and community organizations as they work within the broader context of sustainability planning, sustainability and capacity-building policy, third sector governance and the integration of policy domains under the sustainability planning rubric.

Event: The Social Transformation of Rural Canada: New Insights into Community, Culture, and Citizenship
Institution: University of Alberta
Project Lead: John Parkins
Location: University of Alberta
Date: September 31 - October 1, 2010
Description: The purpose of this networking event is to convene a workshop of academic researchers from across Canada on the topic of transformation in rural Canada. A premise for this workshop is a sense that something new is emerging from the spaces and places of rural Canada.