SMART

Do you have an innovative venture that is helping to reshape mobility in cities or across regions?

ANNOUNCING SMART MOBILITY EnterPrize:

A NEW PRIZE FOR ENTREPRENEURS ADDRESSING SUSTAINABLE URBAN TRANSPORTATION

3 cash prizes
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Travel to present on the world stage at Rio +20 in June 2012

WHAT:

SMART [Sustainable Mobility & Accessibility Research & Transformation at the University of Michigan] with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, seek to identify and recognize notable New Mobility enterprises worldwide, with special recognition for young entrepreneurs, those offering integrated solutions, and those benefiting the everyday life or the urban poor as well as other vulnerable urban people. All entrepreneurs addressing mobility and accessibility challenges with innovative and sustainable solutions and business models are encouraged to apply.

Each application will be evaluated by a prestigious jury of experts in the field and by the online public to decide the winners of the two New Mobility Prizes and one People’s Choice Award. All qualifying applicants – even those who are not prize winners, will be profiled in the first international online listings for New Mobility Entrepreneurs, an exciting new cyberspace for promoting and networking New Mobility entrepreneurs locally and worldwide.

PRIZE:

Each prize includes a $5,000 cash award as well as travel to present your work and receive the prize in person at the Entrepreneurs Session of the Rio + 20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Your venture must be up and running and legal.

APPLY:

Applications open soon. Check the SMART Blog to keep updated on the latest news (um-­smart.org/blog). For more information, please email: EnterPrizeMobility@gmail.com

The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) announces its faculty research awards for 2012. This competition is open to all full-time faculty in all University of Michigan schools and departments. For more information contact Brad Farnsworth, CIBER Director, at 936-3917 or at bradleyd@umich.edu. Applications will be accepted until 28 November 2011.

$10,000 Grand Prize

The STUDENTS REINVENTING MICHIGAN Corporation is sponsoring an annual competition open to all undergraduate students attending Michigan universities, colleges and community colleges. Winners will receive cash prizes. The goal of the competition is to engage students in finding solutions to contemporary problems that face the Legislature and citizens of Michigan. Each year a different and challenging problem that faces our state will be chosen.

The topic for the 2011 competition is:

“How the Legislature Can Improve Michigan’s Infrastructure with Public Support in These Challenging Times?”

Michigan’s greatest resource is its young people. Over recent years many of Michigan’s sons and daughters who have graduated from colleges and universities have left the state because there are no job opportunities in Michigan. A further terrible result is that parents have seen their families separated by great distances with bright young people losing their roots. Students participating in this competition can help turn this trend around.

For more information, visit http://studentsreinventingmichigan.com/

How will high-speed rail change American life in the coming decades?

At this critical moment for American infrastructure, Van Alen Institute calls on the international design community to envision the cultural, environmental and economic impact of a new rail network.

For more information: http://www.vanalen.org/lasr/callfordesignideas

The Mariam C. Noland Award for Nonprofit Leadership annually recognizes a nonprofit leader whose service to his/her institution exemplifies the importance of personal commitment to philanthropy. The Award also recognizes the importance of nonprofit leadership that influences beyond the confines of the institution served, and affects the larger philanthropic community in a positive way.

The Mariam C. Noland Award for Nonprofit Leadership will provide a one-time grant of $10,000 to the recipient’s organization to allow the recipient to attend professional continuing education, take a personal sabbatical for career rejuvenation, or to engage in philanthropic leadership activities.

Nominations are due by April 15th.

Learn more at http://cfsem.org/initiatives-and-programs/mariam-c-noland-award-nonprofit-leadership

2011 INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT FORUM

The  2011  International  Transport  Forum  will  be  held  in  Leipzig,  Germany  on  25‐27  May  2011  on  the  topic Transport  for  Society.  Transport  Ministers  and  other  leading  figures  from  industry,  civil  society and research, as well as the media, are among the more than 800 participants at the annual Forum.  This event offers  unique  dissemination  and  networking  opportunities  for  transport  professionals and  researchers from around the world.

POSTER EXHIBIT

The  2011  International  Transport  Forum  will  feature  an  exhibition  of  posters  displaying  recent  and interesting  research  in  an  area  of  high  visibility  to  Forum  participants.  The  Poster  Exhibit  is  included  in  the Forum  Programme  and  was  launched  through  the  Forum  website.  It  will  be  publicised  on  site  and a dedicated poster session for researchers to discuss their work will be organised during the event.

POSTER SCHOLARSHIP

The  ITF  has  agreed  to  provide  a  specific  poster  scholarship  for  award  by  the  World  Conference  on Transport  Research  Society.    The  award  will  be  made  to  a  research  student  who  is  either  a  member  of  the Society  or  is  supervised by  a member.    The  Society’s  members  are  invited  to  submit one  page  proposals  by 28th  February  2011.    Proposals  should  be  submitted  electronically  to  the  WCTRS  Secretariat  at wctrs@let.ish‐lyon.cnrs.fr.

Each proposal should indicate:

• The name of the student and of his or her supervisor, indicating which is a member of the Society
• The title of the proposed poster
• An abstract for the poster in no more than 150 words, indicating how the poster would contribute to:
  • the Forum’s theme of Transport for Society
  • WCTRS’s objective of encouraging international collaboration in research
  • WCTRS’s objective of facilitating the transfer of research into policy
• The student’s commitment to attending the Forum if successful.

Proposals  will  be  considered  by  a  sub‐committee  of  WCTRS,  chaired  by  its  President.    The  successful candidate  will  be  informed  by  21st  March  2011,  and  will  then  be  required  to  submit  a  registration  form  for the Forum by 31st March 2011.

For more information on the Forum, please contact:

Michel Violland, Administrator
michel.violland@oecd.org
Joint Transport Research Centre of the International Transport Forum and the OECD
Postal address: ITF / OECD, 2 rue André Pascal, F‐75775 Paris Cedex 16
Tel. + 33 (0)1 45 24 87 13  Fax. + 33 (0)1 45 24 97 42
www.internationaltransportforum.org/2011/index.html