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Funding will support new living lab projects that build interdisciplinary collaborations, advance research and operations, and explore innovative solutions to complex challenges.

The Campus as a Living Lab Fund Competition is helping UBC researchers test new ideas to support climate action, resilient systems, sustainable places and communities, and health and wellbeing.  

Our 2022 CLL Fund Competition received applications from faculty and staff in over 23 different departments at UBC Vancouver – and featured a broad selection of amazing ideas for using campus land, buildings, resources, and community as a testbed for sustainability and wellbeing innovations that could have wider applications for BC, Canada, and the world.

The climate emergency is here, and UBC is committed to bringing our community together to confront this crisis.

Student-led market providing at-cost food and more to the campus community.

The Sustainability Hub is proud to announce the return of the Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Competition for 22-23. UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) program offers faculty and staff a unique opportunity to incubate, test and demonstrate innovative research ideas in a real-word setting, embedded on campus lands (its buildings, infrastructure, streets and spaces) or within its communities.

The Sticky Pi project is funded in part by UBC’s Campus as a Living Laboratory (CLL) program, managed by the Sustainability Hub, which aims to integrate academic research and teaching with campus planning, infrastructure, operations, and community development by using the campus as a place to test new ideas.