NSERC CREATE in Water and Sanitation for Low-resource Contexts

为低资源环境创造水和卫生设施的目标是在跨学科的沉浸式和体验式培训环境中提高下一代HQP的技能，以获得必要的能力，共同设计针对低资源环境下的多方面问题的适合用途的解决方案。为此，我们将合作研究可持续供水和卫生服务的解决方案，以改善国内和全球社区中最贫穷和最边缘化成员的生计。这将导致HQP接受加拿大环境部门高需求的一套技术和专业技能培训。这一CREATE计划将巩固目前分布在加拿大8所大学(UVic、UBC、SFU、West、Guelph、Toronto、Carleton和Laval)的低资源环境下的水和卫生方面的专业知识。参与机构为这一创建做出了巨大的财政贡献(占总数的37%)。该计划将培训下一代工程师和科学家，使他们具备解决水和卫生挑战所需的知识(头脑)、技能(手)和心态(心)，这是历史上和全球不平等的最大问题之一。

The objective of the CREATE in Water and Sanitation for Low-resource Contexts is to upskill the next generation of HQPs within a interdisciplinary immersive and experiential training environment to acquire the necessary competencies to co-engineer fit-for-purpose solutions to multifaceted problems set in low resource contexts. In doing so, we will collaboratively research solutions for sustainable water and sanitation services to improve livelihoods for the poorest and most marginalised members of our community both domestically and globally. This will result in HQP trained in a suite of technical and professional skills in high demand in the Canadian environmental sector. This CREATE program will consolidate expertise in water and sanitation for low-resource contexts that is currently dispersed across 8 Canadian universities (UVic, UBC, SFU, Western, Guelph, Toronto, Carleton, and Laval). Participating institutions have made substantial financial contributions (37 % of total) to this CREATE. This program will train the next generation of engineers and scientists to have the knowledge (heads), skills (hands), and mindset (hearts) needed to tackle water and sanitation challenges which is one of greatest issues of historic and global inequity.