Webinar: Exciting and Effective Community – Higher Education Collaborations

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August 14 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT

Free

Universities are looking for new ways to benefit their local communities. Communities are looking for smart solutions to constantly changing problems. Both strive to become more resilient, sustainable, and attractive to future generations. Hear from representatives of the Mayors Innovation Project and the EPIC-Network (EPIC-N) as they share about a new level of partnership that helps communities realize unimaginable results.

The Mayors Innovation Project is a peer-learning network for mayors and city government leadership. They promote “high-road” policy and governance in cities through equity, sustainability, and efficient democratic government. They provide high-quality peer-learning events, policy research and technical assistance to cities in the network. A key approach in their technical assistance has been applying behavioral science research to concrete challenges faced by member cities. They found that as governments interact with residents, often through small “nudges,” they can improve outcomes for education, health, equity, the environment, city finances and more. As they work to expand their technical assistance capacity, they hope to engage with more researchers interested in connecting with cities.

EPIC-N is the nonprofit association of institutions that have adopted the award-winning EPIC Model for university-community partnership. The EPIC Model is based on the University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Year Program, which began in 2010.  More universities began adaptations of “the Oregon Model” each subsequent year. In 2015, these programs decided to formally call this award-winning university-community partnership model the EPIC Model and declared EPIC-N as the professional international network of universities following the key tenets of the EPIC Model.