This year is going to be a busy one for Knowledge Mobilization Works.  As we enter into our third year of business, we are focusing on the theme of: Building the Knowledge Mobilization Community.

As such we are organizing our activities into several areas.  We will still deliver consulting services on knowledge mobilization and provide perspective and expertise as speakers at events organized by others. 

However, much of our activity this year will be on bringing people together through events and publications. We wish to share our collective intelligence and build a community of practitioners and researchers across Canada, the USA, and other jurisdictions internationally.

Here is a preview of what we have planned:

Ongoing projects include:

Knowledge Mobilization Boot Camps

Exploring select KMb topics through active participation and a focus on action and capacity building

Manifestation: Journal of community-engaged research and learning partnerships

www.manifestationjournal.org

Mind Your Words - Poetry as advocacy project

www.mentalhealthpoetry.org

And new projects include:

Conferences

Community 2.0: Technology to support community-university practice and research, Ottawa, November

Creating Networks of Outcomes, International Conference, Toronto, December

Awards

Community-University Awards Gala, Ottawa, November

Knowledge Mobilization Awards Gala, Toronto, December

New Journal

Mobilizer: Journal of Knowledge Mobilization Practice and Research

New Publications

Knowledge Mobilization: Sharing with the World, 2009 Edition, February 2010

Breathing 2.0: Health, Arts, and Technology, November

CUREO Summer Institute: Plugging into Sustainable Energy, September

Mind Your Words, August

CU Summer Institute

CUREO Summer Institute: Plugging into Sustainable Energy: The power of people, Ottawa

Manifestation Workshop

Creating Science Shops in Canada, September

New KMbW Workshops

Working the Wiki Way

Health, Arts, and Technology Roundtable

As I said, this is going to be a busy year - if you wish to be involved as a committee member or have ideas on how to make these events as useful and successful as possible, please do not hesitate to comment or send me an email: pnlevesque@gmail.com

Happy New Year!