Applications are now open for UBC undergraduate and graduate students to join the Fall 2024 Sustainability Ambassadors cohorts.

Bring ideas for human and environmental wellbeing to life, develop your leadership skills and inspire the UBC community to create positive and meaningful change, while building your network and connections with other student leaders through the Sustainability Ambassadors program.

Working as part of a team under the guidance of a Sustainability Lead, Sustainability Ambassadors deliver programming to UBC’s Vancouver campus community related to biodiversity, climate, resilient communities, or circular economy. Find out more and apply by February 18 to join the Fall 2024 cohorts at sustain.ubc.ca/ambassadors.

Natalie Hawryshkewich (She, Her, Hers)

Communication and Engagement Specialist
Sustainability Hub

The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability 2260 West Mall, 2nd Floor | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4
natalie.haw@ubc.ca
https://sustain.ubc.ca/hub | http://climateemergency.ubc.ca/

The UBC Vancouver campus is situated within the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).

 

Learn more about our vision for a just and sustainable world, and our 5-year plan to bring it to life. sustain.ubc.ca/hub

 

Innovations in Energy Transition: Electrification of Mobility

January 24, 2024, 12:30 pm to 1:20 pm

AERL Room 107

 

From e-scooters to electric vehicles, individuals are moving towards electric transportation options.  What are the barriers and opportunities for widespread adoption of these options?  Amir Hassanpour, PhD Candidate is Transportation Engineering and Climate Solutions Scholar, will host Translink’s Mirtha Gamiz and UBC’s Werner Antweiler in a discussion around the electrification of mobility.  Join us for this in person event in AERL Room 107, at UBC’s Vancouver Campus (Point Grey).

 

Event Details and Presenter Biographies: https://climatesolutions.ubc.ca/news-and-events/events/innovations-energy-transition-electrification-mobility

 

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Lesley Dampier  MSc MEd PAg (She, Her, Hers)
Program Coordinator
UBC Climate Solutions Research Collective
lesley.dampier@ubc.ca

Friedman Award for Scholars in Health

The Friedman Award for Scholars in Health is open to any UBC graduate student or medical resident studying in the area of health. ‘Health’ is interpreted very broadly, and includes health promotion and disease prevention, mental health research, laboratory sciences related to medicine or health, public health, health services research, or any area intended to impact human health.  Applicants do not need to be studying in a health-related degree to be eligible to apply.

Awards of up to $50,000 each will be granted for 6 to 12 months of study outside of Western Canada.  Friedman Scholars are expected to travel to other areas of Canada and the world to seek new perspectives, initiate new collaborations with experts in their fields and be exposed to different cultures.  The award amount will be at the discretion of the adjudication committee.

Application Deadline: 13 March 2024 at 4:00 pm PT

For further information about this award opportunity, including eligibility requirements and application procedures, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/friedman-award-scholars-health.

If you want to develop more collaborations with France in 2024, let me remind you that the French Embassy in Canada has currently two calls for applications, open until Feb. 4th 2024 (details below). Do not hesitate to apply and/or contact me if you have any questions. Feel free to transfer this email to your collaborators that may be interested.

Best regards,

Geraldine

 

–  High Level Scientific Fellowship, for PhD candidates and post-docs (Canada -> France) :

This program offers scholarships to PhD students or post-docs working in a Canadian university for a 2-month research mobility to France. The aim of this programme is to facilitate and strengthen collaboration with academic researchers, working in priority in following fields : Emerging Technologies (AI, quantum, etc.), Health (One health, public health policy, genomics, etc.), Ocean and polar sciences (oceanography, biodiversity, marine ecology, etc.), Energy (renewable energy, net zero transition, sustainability, etc.) : https://francecanadaculture.org/high-level-scientific-fellowship/

 

–  Mourou/Strickland program, for researchers (Canada -> France and France -> Canada) :

The Mourou/strickland program is a mobility program, which provides seed grants to encourage new bilateral cooperation, in all disciplines.

https://francecanadaculture.org/mourou-strickland-mobility-program/

 

 

 

Dr. Géraldine DANTELLE

Attachée de Coopération Scientifique et Universitaire

Science and Higher Education attachée

 

Consulate General of France in Vancouver

1130 West Pender Street (Suite 1100) – Vancouver, BC V6E 4A4

Tel: +1 604 637 5292

www.francecanadaculture.org / www.consulfrance-vancouver.org