Problem to solve • 2 million+ women/men of visible minority in Canada and have significant difficulty finding beauty services and products that fit their needs, personality, hair type and skin tone. • 10,000+ salon owners and independent beauticians of visible minority do not have any platform to promote, grow and provide beauty services. Sliike Business […]

Disabilities secondary to traumatic brain injury are a major source of burden. Specifically, patients in Ontario seeking tertiary care for persisting symptoms following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) result in health costs of over $110 million annually (Hunt et al). Numerous treatments have been utilized and studied in an attempt to treat persistent postconcussive symptoms. […]

Le nombre d’entrepreneurs et de dirigeants de PME de plus de 50 ans au Canada et particulièrement au Nouveau-Brunswick s’accroît et, ces derniers devront bientôt céder leur entreprise. Dans ce contexte, il devient crucial d’assurer la relève entrepreneuriale ou le « repreneuriat ». Le projet de recherche entrepris par le stagiaire, porte sur la création […]

People with spinal cord injury (SCI) want to work with researchers as research partners. However, people with SCI have said they do not feel like they have enough knowledge of the research process to be involved, or that researchers have only involved people with SCI in research for the researcher’s gain. To help people learn […]

Les services d’évaluation offerts en milieux publics, et même privés, sont insuffisants pour répondre aux besoins des enfants vivant avec des troubles de la communication (12% au Canada). Afin de limiter le risque d’effets à long terme sur le développement de l’enfant ainsi que sur sa réussite scolaire, une intervention précoce et un soutien pédagogique […]

In mining, one of our greatest risks and liabilities, a primary contributor to environmental damage, and the majority of materials that we handle, are those that we call mine wastes. With the raised profile of recent high-consequence waste failures, there has been an external push by investors and industry leaders to bolster waste-related risk governance […]

As a digital marketing firm that is primarily dealing with small businesses in the lower mainland, Partopia Digital believes in supporting our community and giving back. This project will focus on developing a business development plan, using various marketing skills, ranging from lead acquisition to specific industry searches, customer segmentation, and Search Engine Optimization. The […]

Growing antibiotic resistance is a major threat to global public health. One way to combat this problem is through the development of antibiotics that act against bacteria in new ways. Historically, antibiotics work by interacting with proteins in the bacteria, which are needed for the cells to reproduce. However, recently, it has been shown that […]

Les différentes données liés à la performance sportive représente un enjeu important dans le monde du sport. Sports Ai se spécialise dans l’analyse de la performance des équipes sportive en temps réel. La solution proposée est composée de plusieurs algorithmes de vision par ordinateur (intelligence artificielle), de serveurs pour le traitement de données ainsi que […]

Industrial-scale production of protein from black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) has emerged as an efficient and sustainable alternative to wild harvesting or large animal farming. The principal waste product, called frass, has plant growth-enhancing properties exceeding those explained from primary nutrient (e.g., N,P,K) profiles, but how does frass confer these growth enhancing properties upon plants? […]

The Quantum Algorithms Institute (QAI) brings together industry, academia, and the government of British Columbia and launches the first Quantum Software engineering bootcamp. The goal is strengthening and growing the quantum computing ecosystem in British Columbia and Canada. A major pain point for quantum computing startups is to onboard new researchers and train them on […]

This project is about designing a system to monitor the performance of a renewable energy system installed in the Coniston Seniors’ Center for supplying the hot water demand of the building. This system includes photovoltaic thermal panels, wastewater heat recovery system, thermal energy storage, and heat pumps. The proposed system will use no fossil fuel […]