REAL-WORLD CLIMATE SOLUTIONS AT SCALE
The Michigan Futures Initiative builds on a unique framework that unlocks the power of collaborative research to shape a more sustainable future.
Detroit’s QLINE travels through the city’s downtown district.
U-M MEETS THE MOMENT
Today’s challenges demand more than a single field, perspective, or organization can provide. We must bring diverse knowledge and insights together in new ways.
U-M’s vast community of experts across disciplines, coupled with its significant institutional capacity, provides a powerful platform for communities, practitioners, policymakers, industry leaders, and researchers to learn from one another, shape solutions together, and accelerate meaningful change.
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A DIFFERENT MODEL FOR IMPACT
MFI centers the priorities and perspectives of communities and partners, continually listening to identify where U-M’s expertise has transformative potential. It also maintains a dynamic view of the university’s evolving expertise and capabilities, identifying where those strengths align with community priorities.
The result is a richer environment, where faculty can pursue consequential questions and communities and partners can connect with the people and capabilities they need to advance their work. Each effort builds relationships, knowledge, and capacity that strengthen the work and inform what comes next.
