FOCI Workshops & Webinars

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FOCI WORKSHOPS AND WEBINARS

Workshops

FOCI Synthesis Workshops

In the fall of 2024, and the winter of 2025 a team of FOCI researchers met to discuss FOCI outcomes and initiatives completed to date. The purpose of this discussion was to review the work accomplished and lessons learned, and decide and how to best move forward best contribute to future sustainable, safe, and inclusive ocean and coastal infrastructures.

PLACE Dialogues

PLACE Dialogues, Fogo Island, NL (2024)

PLACE Dialogues, St. Anthony, NL (2023, October 26-28) - Co-creating Community Entrepreneurship. Organized by WP7 and held in partnership with the St. Anthony Basin Resources Inc., 40 community champions, ecosystem partners, and researchers gathered to discuss challenges and explore solutions for building stronger rural communities. The event also included the first launch of a major research output (book) of the project: Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise.

PLACE Dialogues, Norris Point, NL (2022, October 13-15) - PLACE-based solutions in a challenged world: The role of social enterprises and communities. Organized by WP7 and held in partnership with the Old Cottage Hospital, 40 community champions, ecosystem partners, and researchers gathered to discuss challenges and explore solutions for building stronger rural communities.

Sustainable Coastal Atlantic Canada Dialogues

Sustainable Coastal Atlantic Canada Dialogues (2024, November). In-person and virtual sessions organized by FOCI IWP3 to create a space for FOCI partners and researchers to engage. The workshop included a panel discussion, breakout groups, and a popcorn session with open-ended questions to facilitate an engaging discussion and achieve the workshop’s objectives. The workshop afforded researchers, students, collaborators, and partners (community, academic, public and private sector) of the FOCI project the opportunity to deliberate on the findings, strategies and methods for effective policy and practice engagement, the challenges involved, and potential solutions.

Sustainable Coastal Atlantic Communities Dialogue Session, (2020, October). Virtual sessions to create a space for FOCI partners and researchers to engage. Results were used tto guide further development of safe, sustainable and inclusive Atlantic Canadian ocean industries and coastal communities in the face of climate and ocean change.

Engagement Sessions for HQP

Cultural Awareness Workshop (2024, October 2025). A virtual workshop focused on cultural awareness, safety, sensitivity, competence and humility in research. This workshop was presented online for FOCI Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP).

HQP Coffeehouse (2020, October). Virtual session organized by IWP3 for HQP Caucus to promote engagement, share information about research and encourage team building across the project.

HQP Learning Session 1 (2021, February 10). Virtual session organized by IWP3 for HQP Caucus. Learning and engagement session with FOCI Core team to discuss project background and objectives.

FOCI Webinars

FOCI Webinar Workshop 8, Understanding Multilevel Climate Governance in Atlantic Canada: A Social Network Approach (2024, February) Dr. Mark Stoddart (Presenter)

FOCI Webinar Workshop 7, WP7 Book Launch; Revializing PLACE through Social Enterprise (2024, January). Dr. Natalie Slawinski and the authors of Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise (Presenters).

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FOCI Webinar Workshop 6, Artistic Infrastructure for Navigating Ocean and Coastal Community Change (IWP4) (2023, October). Nancy Dahn & Timothy Steeves, Cameron Forbes, Dave Lane, and Jamie Skidmore (Presenters).

FOCI Webinar Workshop 5, HQP Seminar: alternative Ways of Presenting Research. (2023, May). Moses Adjei, Khaled Helal, Fatima Hassan Hodroj, Md Saiful Islam, Sharon King-Campbell, Christine Knott, Umme Kulsum, Cindy Marven, Ali McGill, Rachel McLay, Giovanni Rognoni, Matthew Stackhouse, & Sheridan Thompson (Presenters).

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FOCI Webinar Workshop 4, Building, Sustaining, and Navigating Community - University Partnerships: Reflections from WP7 (2023, April). Natalie Slawinski (Moderator), Joan Cranston, Pedram Pourasgari, Bruna Brito, Jennifer Brenton, Ario Seto, and Marie Louis Aastrup (Presenters).

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FOCI Webinar Workshop 3, Leveraging Existing Communities of Practice for FOCI Outreach and Dissemination (IWP2) (2023, March) Joel Finnis, Cindy Marven, and Shaieree Cottar (Presenters).

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FOCI Webinar Workshop 2 , Thinking Futures: How Can We Contribute to Improved Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures? (2023, January). Robert Stephenson (Presenter) and Umme Kulsum and Marloes Kraan (Discussants)

FOCI Webinar Workshop 1, Foresighting Sustainable Coastal Community Infrastructures (IWP1) (2022, November). Paul Foley (Presenter) and Ajith Raj and Christine Knott (Panelists). .