Opportunity: University of Alberta Engage North and IC-IMPACTS Centre of Excellence- 2015 Community Engagement Fellowship Program ***Application Deadline: March 6, 2015***

University of Alberta Engage North and IC-IMPACTS Centre of
Excellence- 2015 Community Engagement Fellowship Program
Application Deadline: March 6, 2015

The University of Alberta's Engage North and IC-IMPACTS Centres of
Excellence have partnered again this year. The 2015 Community
Engagement Fellowship Program offers opportunities for undergraduate
and graduate students work with northern Canadian First Nations and
Inuit communities on four-month long community-identified projects,
which will help to provide capacity and respond to challenges facing a
community's health, sustainability, and prosperity.

The Community Engagement Fellowship Program has been envisioned to
achieve the following:

1. Develop awareness and understanding of the unique challenges faced
by Northern and Indigenous communities in Canada;
2. Develop a trust relationship between the target partner community,
Engage North, IC- IMPACTS and the research community as a whole;
3. Provide highly qualified talent to tackle community-identified
applied projects;
4. Create a pathway for knowledge sharing and develop a knowledge
mobilization bridge between the community, Engage North and IC-IMPACTS;
5. Provide highly qualified assessment and advising on existing
technologies that may solve community specific challenges in the areas
of infrastructure, water management, and public health;
6. Identify capacity building needs and training along with skill
development requirements and opportunities to ensure the effective
uptake of new technology solutions within the community and to enable
enhanced participation by community members in their future economic
development.

For more information, and to apply, please see:
http://ic-impacts.com/engagenorth/