Barriers to ensuring robust community participation, culturally appropriate outreach and relationship development, and a holistic, sensitive, and suitable path forward appear when the organisation moves forward with its mission. The goal of this project is to build on previous work completed by a prior intern and help further develop strategies for engagement in the North.

As a start-up and technology-focused provider with deep operational insights, Keen’s challenge is to establish automated processes to simplify and streamline secure client communications, authorizations, sales, document exchange to enable fast and reliable services that can scale quickly into markets across Canada. The Mitacs project will focus on helping design Keen’s customer acquisition and service […]

Themodel for Makerspaces in Nunavut is focused on building pathways to life promotion and mental wellness for youth firmly grounded in Indigenous values by nurturing creativity, fostering agency and building positive relationships while engaging in the expanded field of technology at the intersection of art, culture, science and education. Given the physical distances & remoteness […]

Instrumar Limited’s core technology platform is based on the measurement of electrical properties of materials that come in contact with its sensor. The sensor generates a tightly confined electromagnetic field that detects the properties as material enters this field. The sensor is sensitive to the amount, the shape, its density, temperature, conductivity, impurities, moisture content […]

HIVE Geospatial’s mission is to enrich decision-making and facilitate more inclusive and equitable terrestrial and marine management through our proactive planning and collaboration software platform and services. Additional details are available at hivegeospatial.app. The Mitacs-supported internships will contribute to the continued evolution and improvement of the HIVE Geospatial platform, and allow us to address new […]

Downhole turbines are drilling tools that use the flow of downgoing drilling fluid inside the drillstring to turn a solid or hollow drive shaft, which can power or actuate other drilling tools such as turbodrills, electrical generators, hydraulic motors, and a variety of other mechanical, electrical or hydraulic devices. There are many versions of downhole […]

Practicare aims to leverage technology to improve community care outcomes through a holistic lens of worker and organizational excellence. The company plans to directly tackle the #1 problem articulated by both care organizations and the clients that they support: the availability, skill, and turnover of care workers; and the direct impact this has on community […]

The project focuses on the development of some HPC mixtures using concrete materials available in Newfoundland. The developed HPC mixtures can be successfully used by concrete suppliers in Newfoundland area especially for the construction of marine and offshore structures. The project also aims to provide data-based analysis on the service life of some local concrete […]

This project will help Voronoi Health Analytics improve and refine their advanced artificial models used for automating interpreting and analyzing medical images. The intern will help with data collection processes that are required in order to train state of the art AI models for automating medical image analysis, resulting in more efficient and effective health […]

This project involves developing a study to determine the feasibility of operating a greenhouse operation in St. Anthony, NL to address the food insecurity issue.

The process of an oil and gas reservoir being “soured” by hydrogen sulphide is complex due to the many operations (e.g. changing production methods and waterflooding). The phenomena of souring occurs in most reservoirs were secondary or enhanced oil/gas recovery takes place. Hydrogen sulphide casues a number of operational and safety problems such as scaling, […]

Guide to the Good is the social enterprise of thegreenrock. It’s a customized online searchable member-based content hub for locally-owned, locally-operated, locally-headquartered companies and organizations. Guide to the Good uses digital marketing and human relations to promote local, social and green choices toward healthy, flourishing people and sustainable communities in Newfoundland and Labrador. Revenue is […]