We are excited to share a new knowledge translation and transfer initiative has been funded titled "Pathways to Practice: Bridging Knowledge, Practitioners, and Students." The new initiative will build bridges between graduate students, rural economic development officers, and rural community leaders to connect knowledge, ideas, and networks. The project focuses on creating an in-person forum for facilitating these connections, creating a series of new knowledge outputs, and training/mentorship. The outcome of the initiative will create new knowledge outputs, new training, and new networks to support agricultural and rural communities throughout Ontario. This initiative is a partnership between the Canadian Centre for Rural Creativity [1], Economic Development Council of Ontario [2], and Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health [3].
Learn more about this new initiative on the Rural Development website [4]. This initiative is funded through the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance [5], a collaboration between the Government of Ontario and the University of Guelph.
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The School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) brings together major academic fields concerned with creating strong communities, in Canada and around the world. The four highly respected programs in SEDRD share many common goals but approach them in different and complementary ways. This model reflects the imperatives in building authentic communities where planners, landscape architects, communicators, and citizens all play important interdependent roles in community strength.