CUexpo reviewed in “Partnership Matters”

Earlier this month, Partnership Matters, the “Member Newsletter of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health” provided its take on the CUexpo:

MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Anyone doubting that community-academic partnerships and community-based participatory research is a world-wide movement would surely have been convinced at the 3rd Community-University Exposition (CUexpo) held in Victoria, BC Canada earlier this month!

Read the full article.

Photos on Flickr

Many of the photos taken at CUexpo08 are appearing on Flickr. You can browse our Flickr set, or see these photos embedded in the right column of this page, or our Facebook profile. Post your own and let us know where we can find them!

Videos from CUexpo08

Several of the videos taken at CUexpo08 this year are available on our YouTube playlist and on our Facebook page. Please feel free to comment or add your own! Contact cuenews@uvic.ca for more info.

Launch of the Pan-Canadian Coalition on Community-Based Research

Presentation: ReUse Computer – A Green Economic Enterprise Network

Presentation: Training and mentoring of science shops

Presentation: Science Shops as Science – Society Interfaces (an introduction)

Background: A Manifesto to Community Wisdom (Global Alliance)

That community is the underlying fabric of society
People bound together in common cause by their identity, place, enterprise and culture

That strong healthy resilient and sustainable communities
Improve the lives of individuals and contributes to
The betterment of all

That all elements of society have a responsibility to contribute
By listening, convening, sharing and learning
With respect, openness, honesty and action

That by mobilising our shared understanding
We more quickly and surely realize the common good

That research informs, and is challenged by practice in order
To build a more just, civil and responsible
citizenry and society

We believe that together we are wiser
May 5, 2008

Media Release: Canadian communities receive boost in research; Launch of new Pan-Canadian Community Research Coalition

At the close of the Community-University Exposition 2008 (CUexpo 2008), the largest gathering of community based researchers held to date in Canada, a new initiative was launched to support communities, their volunteers and agencies with social research. Attended by over 600 delegates from around the world, the conference drew together different organizations, from education, to community practitioners, who released a declaration that will have far-reaching effects throughout Canadian communities.

Background: Statement from the Global Alliance on Community-Engaged Research

We acknowledge the significant progress that humanity has made since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948, and all other subsequent enactments. This Declaration sets forth the universality of certain fundamental human rights; The rights to education, freedom of association and speech, and the right to participate in the life of the community are inherent to the rights of life with dignity.