The Peter Wall Solutions Initiative (PWSI) provides funding support to UBC faculty members who seek to address issues of societal importance through innovative, collaborative and solution-oriented research projects.

UBC researchers will engage with end-users or community partners to develop innovative research solutions that can be adopted by those end-users or other target communities. Areas of investigation may include environmental challenges, language and literacy, social networking, sustainability, health care delivery, poverty alleviation, human trafficking, population health and wellness, or any other innovative solution to current problems in any discipline.

Deadline for Letters of Intent: May 31, 2011
Successful LOIs invited to submit applications by July 2011

Application deadline: September 30, 2011
Funding decisions announced in December 2011

Contact
PWSI Program Manager
Email: pw.solutions@ubc.ca

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