Each year, the MSU-EDA University Center for Regional Economic Innovation (REI) invites hundreds of leaders across the state to the Innovate Michigan! Summit and MIC (Michigan Inventors Coalition) Expo, these events bring together economic experts and enthusiasts alike to share, learn, and create unique and innovative approaches to economic development and revitalization in the state of Michigan. The Innovate Michigan! Summit event features presentations on new economic development tools, models, policies, programs, and practices, along with community-university projects from around the state. Participants will gather to prioritize topics and ideas for future REI activities and are invited to join the MIC Expo following the Summit. An evening networking reception will conclude the day.
Innovate Michigan! Summit (September 2018)
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Annual International Education Week (November 2018)
International Education Week celebrates the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide, and MSU is proud to have been a leader of international education, research, and collaboration for over half a century. Join International Studies and Programs in celebrating MSU's world-grant legacy!
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Center for Economic Analysis
The Center for Economic Analysis provides timely, high quality research, data, and analysis that contributes to the overall awareness of how the agricultural, natural resource, and related sectors and other community economic development activities contribute to the state economy. The CEA provides a number of services, including:
- Economic Forecasts
- Economic Policy Analyses
- Demographic Profiles
- Impact Assessments
- Market Assessments
- Tax Policy Impacts
- Tourism Impacts
- Needs and Poverty Assessments
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Get Engaged! A Guide to Getting Involved in Your Community Mid-Michigan (August, September 2018)
The Get Engaged curriculum is designed to reinforce key skills that are important to civic engagement while, offering participants an opportunity to practice putting those skills to use through a facilitated planning process. This program aims to:
- Increase residents understanding of the process and their role in the local decision-making process.
- Provide residents tools to communicate effectively on public issues.
- Empower residents to find creative solutions to local problems and how to build community support.
- Explore the variety of ways an individual or group can engage in their community.
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Emerald Ash Borer Information Network
The Emerald Ash Borer Website is a collaborative effort to provide comprehensive, accurate and timely information on the emerald ash borer.
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Economic Analysis of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Web Site
The Economic Analysis of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems websiteintroduces basic techniques that can be applied to analyze the economic viability of sustainable agricultural and food systems. The site aims to provide clear explanations of both how to do the analysis and what assumptions must be met. This site frequently relies on links to other good sites, both to explain these techniques and to provide helpful data and examples. The basic areas covered are:
- Profitability Using Budgets
- Environmental Indicators
- Environmental Values
- Marketing
- Environment-Profit Trade-Offs
- Business Planning
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Growth Through Adaptive Reuse Online Modules
Community planners need to maximize the reuse of community assets when building and shaping their communities. There are three types of adaptive reuse that will be explored: greyfield, brownfield and historical. This module explores how communities can improve their economic future and save their green spaces, which are crucial to sustainable communities by revitalizing urban areas. Unit topics include:
- Unit AR.1: Introduction to Reusing the Built Environment
- Unit AR.2: Types of Reuse
- Unit AR.3: Planning for Reuse
- Unit AR.4: Brownfields: Environmental Contamination
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Institute of Water Research
MSU's Institute of Water Research (IWR) provides timely information on contemporary land and water resource issues through coordinated multidisciplinary efforts and advanced information and networking systems. The IWR seeks to strengthen MSU's efforts in nontraditional education, outreach, and interdisciplinary studies using available advanced technology, and partnerships with local, state, regional, and federal organizations and individuals. Activities include coordinating education and training programs on surface and ground water protection, land use and watershed management. Research areas include: modeling, water quality, and agriculture.
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Land Use Education Resources: MSU Extension
Michigan State University Extension will provide accurate information on basic planning and zoning techniques, as well as current “best practices.” Classes will address land use, community development and environmental issues facing Michigan communities today. Extension educators will also assist local officials by offering training in planning and project management, funding tools, budgeting and record keeping.
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Making It In Michigan Annual Conference and Trade Show (November 2018)
Conference attendees will leave the conference equipped with the practical knowledge and industry resources needed to move an idea from the concept stage to a finished and marketable product. Attendees will be able to corroborate and refine business ideas, connecting with industry experts offering insights and tips on managing the common hurdles often encountered by food companies, including food safety, production, working with co-packers, marketing and supply chain issues.
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Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities Conference (October 2018)
Throughout this conference, you will have a chance to learn best practices from entrepreneurial professionals across the country. Breakout sessions will be held in historical downtown Charlevoix venues—all within walking distance. Wednesday evening includes a networking event where you can continue the conversation with colleagues from both rural and urban communities.
Conference registration includes breakout sessions, lunch, networking event, and keynote speeches from local entrepreneurs. Early bird registration is $85 and ends Friday, September 7! Normal registration is $100 until September 30. At-the-door registration is $125. Cancellations received after September 14 will incur a $35 cancellation fee.
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Placemaking and Public Engagement Workshop (October, November 2018)
At this one-day workshop, participants will learn the essentials of quality places and how to create them using the NCI’s process for design-based collaboration.
Participants will practice identifying areas ripe for placemaking and develop a placemaking project. Then, participants will learn through lecture, video and exercises how the NCI Charrette process can be used to implement a placemaking project.
These training sessions will also discuss walkability, housing, form based codes, placemaking strategies, zoning, charrettes and more.
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Innovation Seminar on Smart Transportation (November 2018)
This prestigious event is organized by the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest. The event will feature a guest speaker from Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems. Fraunhofer is the leading organization for applied research in Europe. The Institute undertakes research of direct utility to private and public enterprise. The aim of this applied research is to use science and technology to create innovative products and applications. Representatives of other German companies will also be involved.
Additionally, there will be opportunities for students, their professors and the participating German company representatives to meet and network. If you are looking to gain valuable insight into smart and energy-efficient transportation, this event will allow you to participate in transatlantic knowledge exchange and build your network by meeting leading global industry players.
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Sustainable Built Environment Initiative
The Sustainable Built Environment Initiative (SBEI) (formerly Small Town Design Initiative) began as a pilot in 2013 as a means of assisting communities to address physical planning, design and land use issues (see image right for downtown waterfront pedestrian access in Cadillac, MI). It offers a graphic visioning process that provides citizens with a set of images and recommendations to guide improvements in their community with a sustainability theme. The SBEI builds on the success of the Small Town Design Initiative by providing a “go-to” source for Michigan’s communities for physical sustainable design assistance in community development and land use.
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Conducting Land Division Reviews (November 2018)
The program will review the parts of the Land Division Act pertaining to land division, including definitions and other general provisions, teach required steps and best practices when conducting land division reviews, and highlight enforcement strategies for an effective local government operation.
The training provides a detailed system of conducting the review, use of checklists (review worksheets), and an application form that can be customized to local land division/subdivision/site-condominium and zoning ordinances. The objective is for participants to know who can conduct reviews, what a parent parcel is and how that is determined, the statutory and case law limits on what the review is for, and to learn a detailed review process. Participants will learn how to customize their own application form and checklist.
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Dunaway Lecture on Economics (April 2019)
The 2019 Dunaway lecturer is Professor Sandra E. Black, Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Policy, The University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the role of early life experiences on the long-run outcomes of children, as well as issues of gender and discrimination.
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Fate of the Earth Symposium (April 2019)
The Environmental Science and Policy Program has launched a symposium series to explore the challenges and opportunities we face in enhancing human well-being while protecting the environment. This symposium will bring distinguished thinkers from around the world to explore what we know, what we need to know and what we must do as we move into a century of unprecedented environmental change, technological advancement and scale of human activity. The event will include research focused seminars and discussion but will emphasize events and presentations that will speak to the broader MSU and Michigan community. In addition to live events and webcasts, the symposium will generate educational materials that can be used in classes and non-traditional education in the spring and beyond.
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Global Engagement Speaker Series (Spring 2019)
MSU's National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement (NCSUE) offers a global speaker series with invited international speakers, around the topic of global engagement. The Spring 2019 topics include:
- February 19: Pauline Koelbl-Mujawamariya, Freelance Innovation Catalyst, Angel Investor, and Co-Founder and Vice President of Operations, Professional Women of African Heritage (PROWAH), speaking on "Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, and Enterprise for the Public Good in Africa"
- March 12: Iman Nuwayhid, Dean and Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, speaking on "Political Determinants of Health in the Arab World: What Killed 'Jamal' the Syrian Young Man?"
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Institute for Public Policy and Social Research Spring Forum Series (Spring 2019)
The Forums are open to all who want to learn more about current issues being discussed in the policy arena. Each panelist will discuss their perspective before the forum opens to audience discourse. Attendees have an opportunity to contribute to the policy discussion. A light lunch is provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Citizen Planner on the Web (January 2019)
This six session series covers land use education and training. This series will be the introduction of the newly revised and updated curriculum for this premier program.
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