FTAC is interested in drawing attention to gaps, barriers, and inequities that occur within the business landscape where Canadian Food Trucks operate - chiefly, municipalities. We are undertaking a series of research projects that are truly IDEAL for students to understand the inner workings of how good policy recommendations can have real impacts on the ability for small businesses to thrive and grow.

In this project, FTAC is undertaking a cross-country review of various bylaws that impact Food Truck operators. This will be the 2nd year this data will be collected to inform our work.

All of the research conducted will be online and can be done from anywhere.

• Students will be provided with clear parameters on how to conduct their research, and how to provide the sourced data back to the project - data gathering methods are 100% remote and more often require online research (85%) with some rare data gathering by phone or email (15%)
• Students will participate in quality assessments of the data collection process to ensure accuracy
• Students may be asked to provide detailed written findings of their research
• Students will have a hand in the building of a database that will be used to encourage policymakers to make informed decisions on improvements for food truck operators.

These projects are open to students anywhere. We will provide the relevant data sources to use in Canada to complete the project.

• A briefing document along with a facilitated overview of the important themes and needs for the project
• A single point of contact (POC) assigned to the students, with a team of experts available for questions
• Access to Slack, Google Workspace, and some other project management tools. We welcome the students so they can feel as though they are part of the team, or at arm's length - whatever is best.
• Recognition of the student's involvement and the students' work in a media release (if permitted) and attribution of the students' contributions via LinkedIn or references as required.