Falling Walls Engage Hub Canada
The Falling Walls Engage Hub Canada, a stream of programming offered by the Falling Walls Foundation, is proudly hosted by RCIScience in Toronto, Ontario.
Launched in November 2020, the Falling Walls Engage Hub Canada is part of an international platform led by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin. It aims to create new links between leading science engagers, local and regional networks, research institutions, and citizen scientists, with the goal of amplifying their collective impact across the country.
Promoting inclusion and increasing the diversity of voices in Science Engagement and Communications is the Engage Hub Canada’s central priority. The team has a long-term goal of becoming a valuable resource – through networking, training and relationship-building with colleagues from around the world – for people in Canada changing their communities through innovative outreach initiatives supporting science and science-based policymaking.
An Advisory Committee oversees the work of, and provides strategic guidance to, Engage Hub Canada. Committee members represent many leaders in Canadian science outreach, including the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Concordia University, Ingenium, McGill University, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Queen’s University, the Tri‐Agency Secretariat, the University of Calgary, the University of Saskatchewan, Western University and beyond.
As one of nine Engage Hubs around the world, Engage Hub Canada plugs science engagers in Canada into a global community where they can learn from peers, build new partnerships and contribute in meaningful ways towards addressing pressing global issues. The Falling Walls Engage team in Berlin and the Hub Managers around the world meet regularly to plan activities and events that will strengthen links between their regional networks and the international community of science engagers.
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The Falling Walls Engage Hub Canada is planning fun and exciting events for the year ahead. If you share a passion for celebrating science engagement - in all its forms - and want to learn more about the Hub, please contact us.