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Science Policy & Exchange is a Montreal based non-profit organization aiming to foster the student voice in evidence-based decision making and to bring together leading experts from academia, industry, and government to engage and inform students and the public on issues at the interface of science and policy. If you'd like to join us, visit our website and fill out the registration form.
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In this special focusing on Canadian efforts to support Ukrainian science, Science & Policy Exchange interviews Dr. Brokoslaw Laschowski, national coordinator for Canada of the #ScienceforUkraine initiative. Dr. Laschowski details how the initiative is pairing Ukrainian researchers with opportunities abroad and how the website is amalgamating resources to help support these researchers both remotely and outside Ukraine. Next we talk to Sarah Overington, Director of Science and Engineering Promotion at the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) about the Special Response Fund for Trainees (Ukraine) and how interested Ukrainians researchers can find a sponsoring grantee. Finally, we chat with three students working for the University of Toronto through the Science For Ukraine initiative - Alex Tsepa, Roman Burakov, and Dmytro Kuzmenko - about how the war has affected their research, their experiences coming to Canada, and thoughts on the war and its effect on the scientific relationship between Ukraine and Canada.
You can connect with Dr. Laschowski's lab by checking out this link or on Twitter @IATSL
Science For Ukraine can be found on Twitter @Sci_for_Ukraine and on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook @scienceforukraine, and on Telegram under “Science For Ukraine”
The statement from the government of Canada to support research trainees from Ukraine (links to CIHR and SSHRC found at the bottom of the page)
NSERC is on Twitter @NSERC_CRSNG, Facebook, or YouTube
The awards database to find grantees supported by NSERC can be found at this link
The events reported at the end of the show featured:
the SPE café "Unlocking Science : The Rise of Open Science in Canada - Perspectives from Early Career Researchers" which is happening TOMORROW on June 2nd, 2022 from 12 - 1:30 PM
the SPE Public Forum "Nutrition in the Age of Misinformation" taking place on Thursday, June 23, 2022 from 5:30 - 7:00PM EST