YORK FUNDS INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH TO ADVANCE SDGs Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation. SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure A functioning and resilient infrastructure is the foundation of every successful community. To meet future challenges, our industries and infrastructure must be upgraded. Goal 9 ensures the promotion of innovative sustainable technologies as well as equal and universal access to information and financial markets, bringing prosperity, creating jobs and making sure that we build stable and prosperous societies across the globe.
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Through the Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Clusters (CIRC) program, York University has dedicated $4.05 million to support critical research that contributes to progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). “It is critical now more than ever for York to support novel interdisciplinary research collaborations that drive innovative solutions to these grand challenges,” says York President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lenton. Seven projects have received $150,000 in funding over three years and another six were awarded $100,000 over two years. This research tackles topics from information and communications technology to clean technologies, epidemic response and recovery and infectious disease control. Learn more about how York is leading SDG research.
NEW INDIGENOUS ENGINEERING & INNOVATION BY DESIGN PROGRAM LAUNCHES The Kindergarten to Industry (k2i) Academy at the Lassonde School of Engineering is dismantling systemic barriers to opportunities for underrepresented students in STEM by delivering a new, work-integrated learning program in the remote Ontario community of Blind River. Students have worked on a variety of engineering projects to apply Indigenous knowledge and traditional Indigenous engineering processes to design solutions that address challenges in their community. Participants earned a high-school interdisciplinary credit in Indigenous Engineering, Technology & Innovation by Design. Learn more about this new program.