The Arrell Food Summit will bring together industry, academic, and government stakeholders to celebrate innovation in agriculture and food.
Call for Posters
How can we put research to work contributing solutions to our
globe’s biggest challenge: feeding more than 9 billion people by 2050? As part
of the Arrell Food Summit, the OMAFRA-U of G Agreement will explore how
research can prepare agri-food to manage and mitigate climate change, use and
protect new food growing spaces, and safely take advantage of big data
opportunities.
Students involved with projects supported by the OMAFRA-U of G Agreement are invited to create an infographic that synthesizes or summarizes some aspect of their research related to one of the questions addressed in the session: (1) how will food be grown in a changing climate (2) how will we use and protect new food growing spaces, and (3) how will big data contribute to feeding the future? Whether you are at the beginning, middle or end of your research, we want to challenge you to present a synthesis of your research visually.
This competition is open to all University of Guelph graduate students involved in either an active project supported by the OMAFRA-U of G Agreement or who were involved in a project that ended within the last two years.
There will be a training session offered to help with design and questions. More information coming soon!
Challenge Details
Interested students must submit a short pitch with a description
of the topic, the information that you intend to synthesize (eg. a literature
review, a project, government policies that you have researched etc.) and a
concept for your infographic.
Infographic pitches (max 200 words) must also include:
- Your name
- Project title
- OMAFRA-U of G Agreement project
submission number (e.g. UofG2016-1234)
- Which session question the project addresses: a) How will food be grown in a changing climate? b) How will we use and protect new food growing spaces? c) How will big data contribute to feeding the future?
- A brief explanation of
the project
- Why the project is
important
- What the specific
benefit of the project has been/could be
- Who has benefited or is
expected to benefit from this research
Submission: Infographic pitches should be emailed to Shannon Brown at sbrown17@uoguelph.ca
Deadline: Wednesday, April 25th, 2018 by 4:00 p.m. Late submissions will not be considered.
A review committee will select pitches for poster display.Notification of acceptance with infographic guidelines will occur by e-mail by April 27th, 2018.
Guidelines:
- Infographics must
address any of the three major questions explored by the session: how will we
grow food in a changing climate? How will we use and protect new food growing
spaces? How will big data contribute to feeding the future?
- There is no required
format – it’s up to you to take what you’ve learned and transform it into a
visual that teaches people about what they need to know. What did you find? Why
is this research important? What are the next steps? How can you represent your
data visually?
- Infographics must fit on
a 3’x4’ poster
- Infographics are due to sbrown17@uoguelph.ca on or before May 11th, 2018 in PDF
and PowerPoint formats in order to have them printed
There will be prizes for the best student infographics:
1st place - $300; 2nd place - $200 and 3rd place - $100
For more information or questions, contact Shannon Brown: sbrown17@uoguelph.ca
The session will take place on May 22 in Rozanski Hall at the University of Guelph.
Registration and additional event information can be found here.
