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Cabox Geopark Site Plan

The project aims to develop a site plan for a parcel of land to advance the planning of the Cabox Geopark project. The project will serve as a foundational step towards the establishment of the Cabox Geopark. The partner organization will receive the services and expertise of a graduate student to help them formulate and execute their vision of the project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Garrett Richards

Student:

Partner:

Cabox Geopark

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

The expansion of an innovative geospatial management solution in the Canadian market

This BSI project will get me working alongside OPA Technology. OPA Technology is a Canadian-based company, the organization is a leader in the geospatial management of road obstructions, closures and traffic detours. OPA has developed the first cloud-based platform for managing, coordinating and communicating projects for private entities, cities and the government. I will be helping OPA to implement a communication and marketing strategy tailored to OPA’s needs to be based on existing marketing procedures and to adapt the implementation to the startup’s environment. My goal at OPA Technologies would be to help expand the market share and reach to implement the solution in as many territories in Canada as possible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sharlene He

Student:

Partner:

OPA Technologies

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Cowichan Sportsplex (Chesterfield Sport Society)

The Cowichan Sportsplex is a 26-acre outdoor sports, leisure and community events venue, managed and developed by a non-profit organization called the Chesterfield Sports Society. It creates opportunity for ALL to participate in healthy physical activities, building personal confidence and community pride, and promoting excellence in sport. Their values of commitment, respect, trust, inclusion, and competency are reflected in the high quality services and opportunities they provide locally as well as to event organizers from around the world. The Sportsplex has a way of inspiring people of all ages and abilities to “give it their all” no matter if they are walking, running, working out, playing their sport or walking their dog. It’s safe, it’s beautiful, and it’s fun. The Cowichan Sportsplex, actively inspires a healthy community every day. CHALLENGES: The facility website and overall digital marketing for the Cowichan Sportsplex has fallen behind current standards and expectations. They are hoping that partnering with VIU through the MITACS program will help us bring our digital presence up to 2022 standards.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robin Davies

Student:

Partner:

Cowichan Sportsplex

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Vancouver Island University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Workly Law’s Startup Legal Tool Kit

The “Workly Law’s Startup Legal Tool Kit” Project focuses on product and marketing innovation in employment law and business law. This project will help the partner organization tap into the underutilized resources in the startup space, innovate and set them apart from their competition. The goal of this project is to create several innovative products. These product innovations will enable the law firm to be competitive and responsive to the legal needs of startups in the changing employment law environment. Applying Design Thinking to create the templates of documents and designing a legal marketing campaign to promote those customized templates via A/B testing will also foster marketing innovation and increase product adoption and operational efficiencies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pnina Alon-Shenker

Student:

Partner:

Workly Law

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Sustainable Organic Waste Management towards a Circular Economy

Conventional organic waste disposal adapts a linear waste-to-discharge treatment strategy, wasting the vast amount of resources and energy embedded in organic waste. With our innovative reactor design and operation, we have demonstrated significantly increased energy and resources recovery efficiencies under loading rates higher (2 times) than reported. Our products feature high flexibility and easy operation/maintenance, thus can be readily modified to meet the needs for treating different types of organic waste (wet or dry), different loadings and can be readily set up and operated at remote areas. By running the Lab2Market program and participating in Mitacs Accelerate, the partner organizations are driving innovation and technology development in Canada. The work conducted by each intern will inform the broader community about industry trends, the impact of different present and emerging technologies on various industries, as well as foster the growth of innovative technologies within the Canadian economy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yang Liu

Student:

Partner:

North Forge

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education; Management of companies and enterprises; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Tracing Cryptocurrency Laundering after Ransomware Attack

Cybercriminals are attacking vulnerable systems in all domains and demand ransoms to return their control [2]. This money is paid by anonymous payment systems such as cryptocurrency (e.g., bitcoin) to evade law enforcement [6]. Bitcoin transactions are irrefutable, which guarantees that once the ransom is paid, the money will not be charged back, unlike credit card transactions. Additionally, it allows cybercriminals to cash out large proceeds of their criminal activities (tens of millions of dollars). Tracking ransomware payments is near to impossible due to complicated bitcoin movements within blockchain [4]. We will examine existing machine learning techniques to identify the limitations behind tracing such fraudulent transactions, and the flow of ransom cryptocurrency, common patterns associated with these fraudulent activities and other ransomware actors involved. Eventually, financial firms will be able to recover bitcoins paid after ransomware attacks and will have the opportunity to detect such flows earlier, protecting their customers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Anderson

Student:

Partner:

NASDAQ Canada Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and Communications Technology

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Modulation of proteinase receptor 2: a novel target for cancer immunotherapy

Treatments empowering patient’s own immune system (immunotherapy) have revolutionized cancer treatment this last decade, showing substantial clinical activity in different tumor types. However, 60% of cancer patients still fail to respond to immunotherapy and other standard of care. Our laboratory recently identified the proteinase receptor 2as a new target to overcome immunotherapy resistance. We propose to investigate the therapeutic potential of this receptor for cancer immunotherapy. We will evaluate its role in the response to immunotherapies and gain a better understanding of the mechanisms involved. This project has the potential to lead to the rapid clinical development of a new immunotherapy and to provide a significant clinical benefit to cancer patients resistant to current cancer treatment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Stagg

Student:

Partner:

Domain Therapeutics NA Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’une plateforme de médiation pour la Chambre nationale des huissiers de justice (France)

Le Centre de mediation des huissiers de justice (CMHJ) souhaite mettre a la disposition du public une plateforme de mediation, accessible depuis son site Internet, qui permettra a tout justiciable de soumettre en ligne une demande de mediation a l’un des huissiers menbre dde la CMHJ et a tout huissier membre de la CMHJ d’initier une mediation entre deux parties. De maniere generale, le projet de plateforme servira a assister les huissiers dans le cadre de leur activite de mediation en assurant le suivi administratif et technique de leurs dossiers. Pour ce faire, le CMHJ a approche le Laboratoire de cyberjustioce (le Laboratoire) et 9086 3697 Quebec Inc. (l’entreprise) affin d’analyser la faisabilite et la viabilite du projet (volet assure par le Laboratoire) et de proceder au developpement de ladite platefore (volet assure par l’entreprise).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicolas Vermeys

Student:

Partner:

9086-3697 Québec Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Mesurer, accroître et pérenniser les retombées des projets d’occupation transitoire

Depuis le début des années 2000, des projets d’occupation transitoire émergent dans différents pays et dans des villes de toute taille pour réfléchir au devenir de certains bâtiments ou terrains devenus vacants. Bien que certaines grilles d’analyse aient, d’ores et déjà, été développées pour évaluer l’impact de ce type de projets, elles sont peu nombreuses et reposent généralement sur des méthodes peu adaptées pour leur généralisation. Cette recherche a notamment pour objectifs de compléter la grille d’évaluation actuellement en développement par l’organisme partenaire en la comparant à d’autres grilles et en y associant de bonnes pratiques d’évaluation, et d’appliquer cette grille à trois études de cas afin de suggérer des mesures ou des outils pour accroître les retombées observées ou souhaitées. Cette recherche permettra à l’organisme partenaire identifier certaines lacunes, d’améliorer sa pratique et d’accroître sa visibilité auprès de différents partenaires.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Rochefort

Student:

Partner:

Entremise

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Centre de pilotage de la planification des besoins de maintenance par la donnée

La Société de Transport de Montréal cherche à valoriser les données captées au sein de son progiciel de gestion d’entreprise (ERP) dans le but d’améliorer l’expérience client et accroître son efficience opérationnelle. Des méthodes de simulation et d’intelligence artificielle peuvent notamment permettre de mieux gérer les pièces de rechange et les ressources de maintenance en proposant de nouvelles approches de prédiction de la demande. Certaines pratiques internes doivent toutefois être revues. Ainsi, cette grappe de projets vise ainsi à mettre en place un centre de pilotage par la donnée des opérations de planification intégrée de la maintenance des véhicules et du matériel roulant, des infrastructures et des équipements fixes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Pellerin;Bruno Agard;Camélia Dadouchi

Student:

Partner:

Société de transport de Montréal

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Métropole solidaire par le design et l’architecture: Recherche-action sur l’architecture et l’itinérance

Ce projet questionne le rôle de l’architecture dans la lutte à l’itinérance – un problème public qui occupe une place croissante à la fois dans l’espace public, médiatique et politique (réglementaire, législatif) et dans l’espace urbain.
Plus spécifiquement, il porte sur des pratiques en design et en architecture dans les processus d’inclusion et d’exclusion sociale que vivent les personnes en situation d’itinérance (PSI). En s’intéressant aux pratiques architecturales qui existent au Canada et à l’international, les travaux des stagiaires permettront de mettre en lumière comment l’architecture peut soutenir, inclure ou encore stigmatiser, invisibilité ou exclure la présence des PSI. Grâce à ceux-ci, Architecture sans frontières Québec, appuyé par une équipe de recherche de l’École de travail social de l’Université de Montréal, souhaite sensibiliser les professionnels du design et de l’architecture, les acteurs de la Ville et les parties prenantes du développement social et urbain aux pratiques et projets exemplaires à privilégier pour lutter contre l’itinérance et, éventuellement, favoriser les trajectoires de réintégration sociale des PSI.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carolyne Grimard

Student:

Partner:

Architecture Sans Frontières Québec

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Harrow Tines: Fatigue Prediction & Real-Time Crack Detection

The agriculture sector of the Canadian prairies including the province of Saskatchewan is one of the major contributors to the Canadian economy. Farmers are the main driver of this sector, who often face delays in their harrowing process due to unexpected breakage of the harrow tines that they use. In this project, the team will develop a scientific method to predict the failure of harrow tines, as well as a live monitoring system to detect any crack in harrow tines. These will allow the farmers to replace those harrow tines before they fail, obviating the possibility of forced stoppage of operation. The partner organization in Swift Current, SK, S3 Wireform Inc., one of the largest North American manufacturers of harrow tines, is strategically positioned to integrate these technologies into their product and offer their customers unprecedented capabilities for a smooth, time-sensitive harrowing process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mohammad Abu Hasan Khondoker;Golam Kabir

Student:

Partner:

S3 Wireform Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

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