There is growing effort globally to deepen community-university engagement as universities seek to enhance their potential to contribute to the public good. At the same time communities, organizations and governments seek to leverage the knowledge and capacity of universities to address community needs. CUVIC 2014 Conference is an opportunity to reflect on these efforts and enable community-university innovation and action within the institutional, Indigenous, national and global context.

The conference will be of interest to faculty, students, community (business, Indigenous nations and organizations, non-government organizations, community groups, funders and governments), higher education administrators, researchers, scholars, national and global community-university and community-based research networks.

CUVIC 2014 is an initiative of the University of Victoria’s Provost and the Institute for Studies & Innovation in Community-University Engagement (ISICUE). The conference is supported by a network of supporters including the Global Alliance on Community-Engaged Research, Living Knowledge Network, Community Based Research Canada, Vancouver Island Community Research Alliance and the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (UK).

Opened in the spring of 2013, ISICUE builds on the history and context of commitment by UVic to community-engagement embedded in the Strategic Plan. It also builds on the work of the Office of Community Based Research (OCBR), which was created in 2007 and became a major catalyst for community-university engaged research and practice, locally, nationally and globally.

ISICUE brings the university and community together for the well-being of communities, nations and the world. Using an innovative structure of joint community and university governance and collaboration, the Institute provides a space for the study and practice of engaged scholarship and interdisciplinary innovation. Focused on engagement, the Institute will harvest new knowledge that will contribute to solutions of community issues focused on sustainability, public policy development and improved theory and practice.

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