KTT

How can KTT practitioners leverage new artificial intelligence (AI) tools to amplify their work? That was the question addressed by two experts at the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance’s 2024 Knowledge Translation and Transfer (KTT) symposium on April 30.

The Alliance—a collaboration between the Government of Ontario and the University of Guelph— brought together nearly 200 attendees from government, academia, industry and the regional community to share and build skills for the future of KTT in agri-food, with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI).

The 2024 Rural Symposium took place on March 5, co-hosted by the U of G School of Environmental Design and Rural Development and the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance.

This annual event provides an opportunity for U of G graduate students to showcase their rural research to policymakers, policy analysts and OMAFRA program staff. The event also facilitates valuable knowledge mobilization and network building.

A joint Soils at Guelph and Beef@Guelph field day in September 2023 focused on cover crop, crop rotation, water movement and grazing experiments at the Ontario Crops Research Centre and Ontario Beef Research Centre in Elora.

For more details about these Alliance-funded research projects, read the Farmtario article Expanding knowledge about cover cropping effects.

Sign up now for this free virtual workshop for U of G faculty, research staff and graduate students who are interested in enhancing the impact of their research.

Register for KTT Strategies and Dissemination via Eventbrite.

Calling all U of G researchers: students, staff and faculty!

Learn how to use photography to tell your research story. Sign up for one of two free workshops: at the University of Guelph Arboretum or at the Ontario Dairy Research Centre in Elora.

Each workshop consists of a one-hour session, followed by an optional 30-minute Q&A with instructor Richelle Forsey, Photography Department Technician for the U of G School of Fine Art and Music.

Participants will explore:

Two April events supported by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance brought together local and international experts in agricultural knowledge translation and transfer (KTT) to share ideas and best practices. 

Help your audience understand the patterns and key insights hidden within your datasets by transforming them into meaningful and impactful visuals.

This workshop series is a collaboration between the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) and the Research Innovation Office at the University of Guelph. See all workshops in the winter 2023 Skills for Research Impact series.

Submit your proposal or attend the town hall information session at noon on Wednesday, March 1.

The Alliance's Knowledge Translation and Transfer (KTT) Funding Program aims to accelerate the impact of agri-food and rural research.

Applications are open for two funding streams:

These free online sessions for faculty, staff and students will help you enhance the impact of your research. From engaging stakeholders to visualizing data to podcasting, these workshops will help you engage non-academic audiences. Learn more about each session and register here: Skills for Research Impact

When all is said and done, how do you know it worked? Go beyond the anecdote and learn to use evaluation techniques to assess the impact of your KMb efforts.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: