Conservation des habitats fauniques et acceptabilité sociale

Le ministère de la Faune, des Forêts et des Parcs a pour projet de moderniser le règlement sur les habitats fauniques du Québec pour l’étendre aux terrains privés et voudrait connaître l’avis des intervenants en conservation et des habitants concernés. Le projet vise à recueillir les commentaires et avis des principaux intervenants œuvrant en conservation […]

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Blackbox optimization applied to Design of Experiments

The pharmaceutical industry relies on a process known as batch manufacturing to supply their goods to the public. Each batch takes time to ends, involves many parameters and is very expensive. Quality tests are performed at the end of each batch. The calibration of parameters is a crucial task and Design of Experiment (DoE) is […]

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Mise en valeur des aliments locaux : analyse et stratégie de commercialisation des coopératives d’alimentation du Québec

Depuis quelques années, la demande alimentaire pour des produits locaux connaît une forte croissance. Ces produits locaux sont souvent cultivés et transformés par des fermes de petite taille ou par des transformateurs artisanaux. De fait, la distribution de produits locaux pose divers défis organisationnels et logistiques. La concentration de la distribution alimentaire et l’optimisation de […]

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Performance Enhancing Effects of Altering Blood Flow Patterns

The vision of Own The Podium is for Canada to be a world leader in high performance sport. With this vision comes the required investment into our understanding of how athletes adapt to training and how this understanding can be leveraged to provide our national level athletes a competitive edge on the world stage. This […]

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Mitigating goose herbivory at Westham Island tidal marsh.

Tidal marshes are essential ecosystems both economically and ecologically. They provide many natural resources, such as filtering pollutants from water and providing flood protection. However, since the 1980s, we have lost about 80% of the world’s wetlands including many tidal marshes. This internship aims to identify the role of goose herbivory on marsh vegetation as […]

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Concertation intersectorielle autour des réalités paternelles dans le champ des services en périnatalité au Québec

Le projet de recherche a pour objectif général d’approfondir les défis que représente la concertation intersectorielle dans le cadre des services directs aux pères dans le champ particulier de la périnatalité. Il se décline en trois sous-objectifs : (1) consolider la base de connaissances disponible aux actrices et acteurs du terrain quant aux réalités paternelles […]

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Développement d’une politique de développement social chez Centraide Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean selon une approche participative : coconstruire aujourd’hui pour mieux intervenir demain

Ce projet de recherche vise à accompagner Centraide Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean dans la réalisation d’une politique de développement social qui lui permettra d’affiner sa stratégie d’investissement social. En cohérence avec les principes du développement social, nous mobiliserons les principaux acteurs du développement social de la région pour co-construire cette politique. À terme, ce projet de recherche action […]

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Improving Effective Collaboration Between Sponsorship Agreement Holders (SAHs), Constituent Groups (CGs) and Co-Sponsors in Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program (PSR)

The proposed research seeks to learn more about the ways Sponsorship Agreement Holders (SAHs), collaborate with Constituent Groups (CGs) and Co-sponsors to sponsor refugees to resettle in Canada. For this project, the Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC), will be used as a case study. Given the limited capacity and resources that SAHs have available to them […]

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Monitoring forest cover and land use change in the Congo Basin under IPCC climate change scenarios. Applications to forest fragmentation and connectivity and potential impacts on Great Apes spatial and behavioral diversity.

The Congo Basin loses approximately 1 million hectares of forest per year as a result of human disturbance and climate change impacts. This forest loss leads to large scale changes in land cover patterns. The rate of these changes is expected to double in the future, as human population grows, and with increased global warming. […]

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Fraser Lake Eco Co-op

The Fraser Lake Eco Co-Op will be a state of the art facility centralizing sustainability functions in one unique location. The Eco Co-op will act as an incubator to streamline services, develop resources, create jobs, and improve food security, while exemplifying environmental stewardship, and celebrating culture. The scope of the feasibility study involves the exploration […]

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Development of multilayer composite systems via co-extrusion process

Extreme conditions in Oil and Gas industry often impose conflicting demands for the optimum mechanical properties as well as long term corrosion resistance. The internal and external side of the pipeline are usually exposed to different environments and are required to possess different characteristics. It is difficult to find a single material to satisfy all […]

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