Tere Ledezma (IIS) will collaborate as an intern with the Canadian company SEF

 

Tere Ledezma, 8th semester Industrial and Systems Engineering student, will be collaborating with SEF Canada this year, as an intern in an Entrepreneurial Development project in "Cerro de San Pedro".

Tere learned about the opportunity of this internship with SEF Canada, through the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Division on campus; therefor she entered in the selection process for the job, in which students from different faculties were involved. As a result, she was the selected student.

SEF Canada consults and trains in the field of Local Economic Development and Corporate Social Responsibility, to ensure prosperous futures. The project in which Tere is already participating, is about the development and growth of "Cerro de San Pedro", since San Xavier Mine is close to finish its operations.

Tere will support with translations and with English-Spanish communication when the consulting company visits "Cerro de San Pedro", to impart the entrepreneurial courses, which will be leaded by Suzette McFaul (SEF Managing Director)

Tere, who had already made an internship in the Direction of Economic Development of the Local Government, commented that she is really interested in the topics related to sustainable development, and she is now seeking to follow up in this ambit, but now changing the perspective from public service to a private initiative. She is excited about the opportunity, since she will have a chance to be in touch with other cultures and other ways to encourage economic development through internationalization.

For more information about SEF Canada: www.sefcanada.com

Source: http://conocetec.slp.itesm.mx/index.php/academicas/137-tere-ledezma-iis-colaborara-como-practicante-con-la-empresa-canadiense-sef

In Memory of John Meech

At FLOGEN’s Shechtman International Symposium held in Cancun, Mexico from June 29 to July 4, Professor John Meech was presented with the Fray International Sustainability Award in recognition of his leadership of UBC-CERM3′s research into Sustainable Mining. Dr. Meech attended the conference with 10 members of the CERM3 team who presented 12 papers on recent work done at UBC


A list of papers presented by the CERM3 team is shown below:

4. Development of Sustainable Small Businesses in Mining-Affected Communities
- Suzette McFaul, Andre Xavier, and John Meech

UBC-CERM3 Team at the Shechtman Conference L to R: Dottie and Jim Higgins (Guelph University), Emma and Chris Anderson (Massey University, NZ), Claudia and Andre Xavier (UBC-Mining), John and Elaine Meech, Ricky Gu and Peipei Shi (UBC), Suzette McFaul (SEF-Canada), and Sixto Aguero (UBC)

 

http://mining.ubc.ca/professor-john-meech-received-the-fray-international-sustainability-award/

Congratulations Dr. Andre Xavier.

As an industry supervisor and sponsor of Mitacs,  we are proud to be part of The Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy(Mining Engineering) for Andre Xavier PhD.  

His thesis “Socio- Economic Mine Closure (SEMC)Framework: A Comprehensive Approach for Addressing the Socio-Economic Challenges of Mine Closure” was presented on Monday, November 25 at UBC.

We look forward to working very closely with Andre in assisting our Resource companies to address their needs.

Global Entrepreneurship Week

At a time of economic crisis all over the world, and when existing models have shown their limitations, entrepreneurship has emerged as a genuine solution to boost recovery.  World Entrepreneurship Forum is the first global think-tank dedicated to entrepreneurs, creators of wealth and social justice. Since 2008, 350 members from 76 countries have met to tackle our world’s most pressing issues with entrepreneurial solutions.

Next week, Nov. 18-24, 2013 is the Global Entrepreneurship Week!

So happy to be part of this – we can change the world....

Hastings County training

ED was in Hastings County training the community and New Facilitator Mary Doyle October 28 – 30 2013. Hastings County has incredible successes in the past and will continue to do so with this incredible team!

This is the feedback....

 

I wanted to thank you again. Like I told you told after the training, you presented and your delivery of this training was one of the best I have every done. I do many courses for real estate and as well work with mental health and addictions so I have been on a lot of the years. Keep up the good work!!!! 

Pat Hennigar

New at SEF Canada

Keep up to date with SEF Canada by checking out our newsfeed at

http://www.sefcanada.com/news/

Suzette McFaul's IFC Presentation from Washington, D.C. is now published and available online.

Ph.D Candidate, Andre Xavier, is currently in Milos Island, Greece to present the co-written piece "Economic Development Initiative for Mining Community Development" at the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Development in the Minerals Industry.

Check out their website at http://sdimi2013.conferences.gr/ 

 

Events for the Month of June

Here is a look at what we are doing for June 2013:

- Advisory Board member Douglas Myrdal will be meeting the with Government of Canada in South Africa to present SEF Canada as a CSR program for Mining.

 

- Managing Director Suzette McFaul will be speaking at a presentation in Delta, British Columbia on Economical Development. 

 

- Suzette McFaul will also be speaking at this year's IFC Sustainability Summit on June 20 in Washington, D.C.

 

- Ph.D Candidate at the University of British Columbia, Andre Xavier, will be speaking at this year's Sustainable Development in the Minerals Industry Conference in Milos, Greece on June 30.