Community leaders from across the region gathered this week to discuss how innovation and collaboration can help Niagara thrive in a rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n
Brock University Provost and Vice-President, Academic Arja Vainio-Mattila kicked off the Niagara Economic Summit on Tuesday, Oct. 29 with an opening address emphasizing Brock\u2019s role in the region’s economic growth.<\/p>\n
Hosted by the Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce (GNCC), the event explored forward-thinking strategies for economic growth, covering Niagara\u2019s evolving manufacturing sector, the push for sustainable and efficient housing solutions, and the drive to strengthen global connections through enhanced transportation networks.<\/p>\n
Vainio-Mattila highlighted Brock\u2019s recent initiatives, including the launch of its new engineering department, a renewed partnership with the Niagara Parks Commission, and the $7-million Clean Agriculture for Sustainable Production Field Infrastructure project<\/a>.<\/p>\n She also pointed to upgraded community wellness facilities such as Brock’s Functional Inclusive Training Centre<\/a> (Bfit) and the Brock-Niagara Centre of Excellence in Inclusive and Adaptive Physical Activity<\/a>; industry partnerships with the Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute<\/a> and the Brock-Niagara Validation, Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute<\/a>; and Brock\u2019s role in securing the Asahi Kasei plant in Port Colborne, underscoring the University’s commitment to regional economic development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Community leaders from across the region gathered this week to discuss how innovation and collaboration can help Niagara thrive in a rapidly changing world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":96921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,1],"tags":[13593,13981,13982,10209,9009,651,2409,617],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96924,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96919\/revisions\/96924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}