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Faculty of Applied ScienceStrategic Plan
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Increase Impact

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Environmental action

Support leadership in environmental sustainability, climate and planetary health

Environmental Action

  • Weaving nature back into cities through strategic design
  • Delivering high impact collaboration while reducing carbon footprint

Weaving nature back into cities through strategic design

Delivering high impact collaboration while reducing carbon footprint

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Promote agency

Promote advocacy and agency to effect change in partnership with local and global communities

Promote Agency

  • Investment in strategic student-led activities
  • Community portal to tackle challenges in context of needs
  • Grassroots initiatives that scale

Investment in strategic student-led activities

Community portal to tackle challenges in context of needs

Grassroots initiatives that scale

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Strategic partnerships

Collaborate with purpose in strategic, long-term partnerships

Strategic Partnerships

  • Strengthened internal & external partnerships via shared projects
  • Projects which bring together all partners with ‘pieces of the puzzle’
  • Support model for developing and sustaining long-term partnerships
  • Partnerships to connect environmental conditions and health outcomes

Strengthened internal & external partnerships via shared projects

Projects which bring together all partners with ‘pieces of the puzzle’

Support model for developing and sustaining long-term partnerships

Partnerships to connect environmental conditions and health outcomes

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Entrepreneurial thinking

Nurture the entrepreneurial mindset and venture creation to support innovative and transformational solutions

Entrepreneurial Thinking

  • Integration of Design Thinking principles within each of our Faculty’s disciplines
  • Entrepreneurship fellowships for grad students & faculty
  • Innovation developed by combining creativity with market intelligence
  • Entrepreneurship supported in communities of all sizes
  • Clean energy solutions and ventures

Integration of Design Thinking principles within each of our Faculty’s disciplines

Entrepreneurship fellowships for grad students & faculty

Innovation developed by combining creativity with market intelligence

Entrepreneurship supported in communities of all sizes

Clean energy solutions and ventures

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Innovative spirit

Create time and space for innovation

Innovative Spirit

  • Streamlined workloads & processes to protect time for creativity

Streamlined workloads & processes to protect time for creativity

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Lifelong value

Create lifelong value across the career continuum

Lifelong Value

  • Diverse post-graduate educational opportunities
  • Enhanced value models for graduates

Diverse post-graduate educational opportunities

Enhanced value models for graduates

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