SPARC is an active provider of knowledge mobilization (KM) support and education at UBC.

Key activities include community outreach; faculty networking opportunities with national, provincial and local government agencies and ministries; dissemination of research findings via local, national and international channels; and sharing of best practices at national conferences.

Specific examples include:

• Fifth Anniversary Celebration of CIHR – 800 people in attendance from the Greater Vancouver area; event included 20 poster presentations and 4 keynote speakers (UBC President Martha Piper, CIHR President Alan Goldstein, UBC researchers Kalina Christoff and Max Cynader);
• Life Science Institute Open House – 400 people in attendance from the local community; poster and keynote speaker presentations;
• Centre for Disease Modelling Open House – poster presentations and keynote speakers including CFI President Eliot Phillipson;
• UBC Public Affairs and VPRI Frontier research magazine – press releases that were picked up by media outlets (e.g., Vancouver Sun) and coverage of research success stories;
• FRED database of core facilities, equipment and research services available at UBC and Academic Hospital Campuses provides researchers, trainees and students with a means to access state-of-the art tools for research with more than 500 listings;
• Grant Facilitation website developed as a virtual network for building community, enhancing professional development, providing information, templates and tools for all stages of the grant facilitation process.