On December 14, 2016, 3:00-4:00pm EST, as part of the EPA’s Community Resources Network (CRN) public-facing webinar series that highlights a number of the community-university partnerships, the CRN will be hosting a webinar entitled, EPIC: Educational Partnership for Innovation in Communities.
This webinar will introduce the EPIC Program and, highlight a case study entitled, Economic Resiliency: Economic Development and Diversity through “Industrial Ecology,” which provides an overview on how University of Oregon business school students enrolled in a course on Industrial Ecology and worked with the City of Salem, Oregon to analyze how the waste products of one industry could be utilized as inputs to another.
The EPIC Program is an innovative partnership framework where a university provides direct support to a city, tribe, or other local government to assist in implementing priorities and projects that align with sustainability and resiliency goals identified by the community itself.
The EPIC Framework systematically matches local real world interests or needs with university capacity in ways that benefit all parties, work within administrative structures, and at an unprecedented scale that can have lasting and sustainable impacts for all involved. Working across disciplines, the EPIC Framework is an effective conduit for directly translating research into practice, and impact is assured based on community “skin in the game” including explicit buy-in from city (or other local government) leadership and paying a portion of program administration.
To access the webinar please use the following Adobe Connect room: http://epawebconferencing.acms.com/crnmonthlywebinaror please use the following call-in line: 1.866.299.3188, code 202.566.2977. (Please note, that the call in line is reserved for those who will not be accessing the webinar via Adobe Connect).
If you have any questions about this webinar series please contact Angela Hackel at hackel.angela@epa.gov or at 202.566.2977.
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