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Good Food Club Farm Trip and Community Food Currency Program Support

This proposed project involves two main objectives in support of the West Broadway Community Organization’s Good Food Club. The first is the re-launching of the Farm Trip Program, which enables community members to visit a small-scale local farm and learn about gardening practices. The second is the increased tracking, evaluation, and reporting of the Community Food Currency program, which works in conjunction with the West Broadway Farmers’ Market to increase low-income community members’ access to fresh, local produce. The Good Food Club is a food security program that aims to empower people within Winnipeg’s West Broadway neighbourhood to become more involved with their own food security, but staff limitations and the continued growth of the Farmers’ Market have made it difficult for the GFC to offer all of their desired programs in recent years. The Farm Trip Program in particular had to be paused in recent years. Therefore, this project will allow the GFC to return to their full range of programming, so they can continue to provide extensive opportunities to reduce isolation in the community, to increase economic development in the West Broadway neighbourhood, and to support low-income community members in participating in localized food systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shauna MacKinnon

Student:

Partner:

West Broadway Community Organization

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Winnipeg

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Valorisation des mégots de cigarettes et développement des procédés de récupération

Fondée en 2020, Sumeco Solutions Inc est une entreprise innovante basée à Montréal, dédiée à la lutte contre la crise environnementale au Québec à travers des solutions écologiques. Elle a lancé le Projet Ciga, visant à collecter et transformer les mégots de cigarettes en énergie renouvable. En collaboration avec APIGI Inc, dirigée par Gérard Gosselin, un ingénieur expert en combustion, Sumeco vise à réduire l’empreinte écologique des mégots de cigarettes.

Sumeco Solutions ne se contente pas de réduire les déchets; elle cherche également à valoriser les mégots de cigarettes, explorant ainsi des solutions durables pour l’environnement et la santé publique du Québec. En partenariat avec le CCTT de Trois-Rivières Innofibre et l’École Polytechnique de Montréal, l’entreprise s’efforce d’améliorer les processus de transformation des mégots.

Le rôle crucial de l’étudiant dans ce projet consiste à analyser les méthodes existantes de récupération et de traitement des mégots, contribuant à l’identification d’alternatives viables pour Sumeco. Cette recherche permettra de poser les bases technologiques pour les futurs développements de l’entreprise.

Avec plus de 6 milliards de cigarettes consommées annuellement dans le monde, dont une grande partie finit dans l’environnement, l’initiative de Sumeco Solutions arrive à point nommé. Les mégots, potentiellement toxiques pour les écosystèmes, représentent un défi environnemental majeur. Sumeco Solutions se positionne donc comme un acteur clé dans la valorisation des déchets, offrant une nouvelle vie aux mégots de cigarettes et contribuant ainsi à la préservation de notre planète.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mario Jolicoeur

Student:

Partner:

Sumeco Solutions Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Editorial Internship with Explore Outdoor Media Inc.

This Editorial Internship with Explore Magazine offers the opportunity for an intern to develop writing and editing skills,
interview skills, work with freelance writers, create content for social media, engage with other successful content
creators, writers and editors, and build a portfolio of bylines from a reputable Canadian magazine. With the aim of
“inspiring outdoor experiences,” Explore Magazine educates, equips and inspires readers across the country with our
nationally distributed print magazine, globally read digital magazine and far-reaching social media platforms with over
200,000 followers. The intern will be encouraged to flex their creativity while completing meaningful projects, pitching
article ideas, editing and refining work while experiencing what it’s like to work for Canada’s leading outdoor
adventure magazine.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dave Dormer

Student:

Partner:

Explore Outdoor Media Inc.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Plastic Reduction and Energy Democracy Intern

The intern will be working on three different projects: i) translating recent international and national developments on plastic pollution & policy into popular language and disseminating it to the wider public to help improve outreach to local communities; ii) conducting surveys in four different provinces to gather data on the perceptions about energy production and democracy in local communities; iii) helping with the organization of town halls on different topics. These three different projects all support the participatory approach of Sierra Club Canada’s work and its contribution to reaching Net Zero by 2050.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Garrett Richards

Student:

Partner:

Sierra Club Canada Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Projet supervisé – Élaboration d’un référentiel de compétences pour les activités clés de démarrage d’une entreprise technologique

Les entreprises en démarrage au Centech sont formées d’équipes multidisciplinaires dont les membres fondateurs possèdent des formations de premier et second cycle en ingénierie et en administration. Ces individus qui passent du statut d’étudiant à celui d’entrepreneur ont besoin d’acquérir rapidement des connaissances et une expertise solide, afin de faire croître rapidement leur entreprise à travers les trois phases du cycle d’incubation : l’émergence, le prototypage et la commercialisation. Pour évoluer rapidement et efficacement à travers ces trois phases, les entrepreneurs doivent développer des compétences dans quatre domaines clés :
Commercialisation
? Financement
? Prototypage
Gestion des ressources humaines
Objectifs du projet de recherche : Dans cette optique, le mandat consiste à accompagner le Centech et ses entrepreneurs à développer un modèle de compétences pour chacun des quatre domaines clés du modèle « Growth Wheel » utilisé au Centech. Pour chaque domaine de compétence, trois niveaux d’expertise associés seront élaborés. En fonction du diagnostic qui sera posé sur le niveau d’expertise que possède chaque entrepreneur, il sera possible de formuler des recommandations concernant les compétences analysées.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dominique Bouteiller

Student:

Partner:

Services Automobiles Gran Tuned;Centech

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Leveraging influencers to raise awareness of RTO program

The intern will develop Requity Homes’ social media marketing strategies and improve Requity Homes’ social media presence. Through partnerships and marketing plans with social media influencers, the intern aims to help Requity Homes’ increase their brand awareness and educate potential homeowners on the Rent-to-Own program provided by Requity Homes. Requity Homes will receive the benefits of increased social media engagement, increases in website traffic, and increases in leads and sales.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yi Zoe Zou

Student:

Partner:

Requity Homes Inc.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Optimizing Optical Coherence Tomography Scanning Efficiency with Low-Rate Acquisition and AI-Based Image Synthesis

Perimeter Medical has been developing a novel optical coherent tomography (OCT) technique combined with AI to analyze tissue edges quickly. This project aims to make the method faster by acquiring images more efficiently. This will help surgeons assess tissues quicker and shorten surgery times, which in turn will lead to less time for patients to remain under sedation. Using an AI synthesis approach, we strive to speed up the OCT scanning process. The proposed strategy is to test this approach using some existing OCT images to teach an AI algorithm how to generate the missing ones. We will compare the predicted OCT image results to the originals using image quality metrics to ensure the generated images are accurate. This project will be the first step in evaluating the feasibility of a faster OCT imaging in helping surgeons and patients alike.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kumaradevan Punithakumar;Michelle Noga

Student:

Partner:

Perimeter

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Artificial Intelligence

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Living Archives, Histories and Futures of Alternative Book Publishing (part of Archives / Counter-Archives)

PUBLIC was founded in 1988 by Public Access Collective, a Canadian charitable nonprofit organization committed to curating and producing innovative artistic research-creation projects and public interventions. Living Archives, Histories and Futures of Alternative Book Publishing is a research-creation project focused on developing PUBLIC Books and PUBLIC Online, including the further development of a more hybridized and integrative platform for PUBLIC Access’s publications and projects. This research-creation project will draw upon PUBLIC’s archives, engage new works emerging from the vast Archives/Counter-Archives network of artists, curators, educators, scholars, librarians, archivists, etc., and investigate connections between these resources. These original works will take form as publications, interviews, reviews, criticism, podcasts and podcast series, exhibitions, curatorial engagements, public interventions, setting new experimental forms of writing and publicity alongside canonical readings in art theory, exploring the interactive possibilities of contemporary art works within the public domain as well as open source sites and support for PUBLIC Online, a hybrid research-creation (intellectual and creative forum) that investigates critical interactions and intersections with art and public culture.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Janine Marchessault

Student:

Partner:

PUBLIC Journal

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; New and Digital Media; Social Innovation

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Narrations augmentées en littérature jeunesse : processus créatifs multimodaux et mécaniques collaboratives

Ce projet vise à documenter et analyser les processus de création et mécaniques collaboratives impliqués par la mise en place de livres augmentés jeunesse, et ce à travers le développement d’une séries d’oeuvres associant animation, texte, musique, et fonctionnalités interactives. Effectué avec le partenaire Les Éditions André Fontaine, en particulier dans le cadre de sa collection jeunesse Fonfon, il s’attèlera à analyser et compiler des données précises permettant, à terme, de dégager d’éventuelles perspectives d’adaptation dans des contextes d’apprentrissage, notamment en ce qui concerne les propres activités de création des jeunes. Dans une dimension plus technique, il visera à développer un nou

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathalie Lacelle

Student:

Partner:

Éditions André Fontaine

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Development of lead-free journal bearings

To operate, the surfaces inside an aircraft engine must withstand several conditions, such as temperature and pressure, which will cause the components to wear over time. To prevent wear and reduce maintenance costs, the manufacturer of such engines usually uses several different techniques to enhance the surface’s resistance. However, some of these techniques, such as lead-based surfaces, may not be environmentally friendly. Therefore, the main objective of this project is to understand how wear is caused in journal bearings, a major component inside aircraft engines, and so propose strategies to develop environmentally friendly surfaces. The project will use as basis actual parts from these engines provided by the partner organization and characterize them by how the wear occurs in these components. Understanding how these components wear, materials will be proposed based on the literature and interfaces tested.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pantcho Stoyanov

Student:

Partner:

Pratt & Whitney Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

La requalification des églises en projets collectifs au Québec

L’étude empirique porte sur le processus de transformation des églises en projets collectifs par les citoyens au Québec. L’enjeu de l’étude est social car il s’agit d’une réflexion sur le présent et l’avenir de l’héritage bâti religieux au Québec, en contribuant à la compréhension de sa sacralité et de sa redéfinition dans la société québécoise contemporaine laïque.
Dans la diversité des manières nouvelles d’investir l’église collectivement et autrement que par les activités de culte, on s’intéresse aux expériences multiples de cette transformation du bâti religieux à l’échelle de la province, pour étudier au prisme du vécu de ses acteurs citoyens, les modalités et les mécanismes concrets dans l’appropriation de son espace. Un dispositif d’enquête multisites permettra l’observation des lieux et des usages multiples, ainsi que la rencontre des acteurs des transformations plurielles de l’espace religieux. La réflexion anthropologique portera sur la reconfiguration des rapports à l’espace de l’église dans le contexte spécifique du Québec.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ingrid Hall

Student:

Partner:

Entremise

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Compositional Reasoning with Large Language Model for Structural and Semantic detections and relations across documents

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rahul G. Krishnan

Student:

Partner:

Docugami Canada, Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate