The Business Strategy Internship project will help the UAlberta Health Accelerator in refining its business strategy and improving its operational procedures. It will also help the student gain project management, business planning and strategy building skills.

Composite proton exchange membranes (PEM) with tuned microstructure, and novel proton conductors have been highlighted as promising alternatives to conventional PEMs, which suffer from high-humidity and low-temperature requirements. However, the exact structures and thus proton and water transport in these materials are poorly understood. High performance polymeric membranes with 2D material additives mixed into the […]

The Carret Dance Conservatory (TCDC) provides serious Ballet and contemporary training for dance students from a young age to a professional level. Despite the excellent curriculum TCDC offers, they have been receiving a negative cash flow since April due to the lack of marketing and the inability to alter business development plans under change and […]

This research project will provide an opportunity to learn intercultural and global perspectives of different peoples in Canada and around the globe. It will also help the intern to enhance organizational and project management skills as well as acquire knowledge of the process to create an effective marketing plan. The partner organization is expected to […]

A close relationship with the land is an integral part of the worldview of Tsimshian people, whose territory is on the northern coast of North America. Key places were marked as pictographs and petroglyphs (rock art), many of which are recorded as specific events in Tsimshianic oral tradition. This project seeks to advance the understanding […]

Our ability to model the air-sea exchange of CO2 with confidence in the Polar Oceans, a key component of global climate systems, is currently limited due to critical gaps in our understanding of the relationship and interactions between the air, sea, atmosphere and ice. This includes ice-driven CO2 fluxes during Spring melt season. Eddy covariance […]

An exploration of undergraduate Black students’ experience of higher education at the Univerisity of Calgary. In order to explore the experiences of Black students who specifically study English or Science at the univeristy, we intend to recruit at least five undergraduate students from each subject, and conduct a group semi-structured interview with each group about […]

Alacrity Canada is taking steps to help and support portfolio companies and business partners to adjust and revise their strategies, considering the challenges caused by COVID-19. With the rapidly changing priorities in the World, carbon emissions and the fight against climate change becoming an important issue for all major companies and governments. BC and Canada […]

This 3-month project will be realized at Ryerson University in Toronto, under the supervision of Professor Irene Gammel. The project aims to contribute to the study of trauma by using resilience as an analytical lens. It will offer theoretical and context-informed understandings of marginalized narratives by drawing on my expertise in the arts, humanities and […]

We live in a world that is increasingly dominated by humans which places wildlife under extra pressure to cope with changes to their landscape. One of the most important ways that animals can cope with these changes is to show plasticity in their behaviour. Altering their social behaviour to allow them to reduce the risks […]

The onset of COVID 19 has created disruption in many business sectors and it is strongly believed that the changes brought forth by the Pandemic are here to stay well after the situation is under control. The education and learning industry is one that has seen considerable changes in the fashion in which it operates; […]

The goal of this project is for our intern to come up with a Business strategy for two newly introduced programs by conducting a business analysis, environmental scan and a competitor analysis. Cortree will use these plans to refresh the current business plan for our Mediation and PSW training services. Neither services existed at the […]