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Notice of Intent for projects for the 2027-2028 Program have not yet opened.  

General program overview is provided for information only. 
What is the Solutions Scholars Program? 

Established in 2023, the Solutions Scholar Program is designed to encourage interdisciplinary research in the areas of climate change mitigation, adaptation and education. The program supports graduate students to spend ten months working on a solutions-oriented research project submitted and led by researchers across UBC.   

The Solutions Scholars program is a two-stage process.   

  • First, climate solutions-oriented projects are submitted from researchers through an NOI and application process. Researchers across all disciplines, including arts, humanities, education, medicine, science etc. are encouraged to submit research project ideas. 
  • Second, students are invited to apply to work on the selected research projects throughout a ten-month term from July 2027 to June 2028. 
Project Eligibility

The lead applicant must be UBC Faculty. At least one additional co-applicant is required and must be a UBC Faculty member, Research Associate, or Postdoctoral Researcher from a different lab or research group than the lead applicant. Note that the objective of the program is to promote cross campus research collaboration. Additional UBC community members and off-campus partners are welcome as a part of the application team but are not required.  Students are not eligible to submit applications. 

If a project is selected, the application team must be available to act as project mentors and provide feedback and support to the student project group during the program.   

Project Selection  

The objective of this program is to expand interdisciplinary climate research collaborations and encourage climate solutions-oriented research at UBC. This is an opportunity to explore a climate solutions-oriented research question from a fresh disciplinary perspective, develop collaborations with other researchers around climate solutions, expand the scope of your work, and/or tackle a real-world problem that is not receiving sufficient attention. Projects should be suitable for small teams (i.e. two to three) of graduate students to complete in twelve months.  

Details on Project Requirements and Priorities will be released when the call for 2027-2028 Projects is announced. 

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

Climate Solutions Research Collective

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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