Consortium of Alberta, Laval, Dalhousie and Ottawa Universities

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CALDO
CALDO
Consortium of
Alberta, Laval,
Dalhousie and Ottawa Universities
CALDO
What is CALDO?
• Consortium of the University of Alberta, Laval University, Dalhousie
University, and the University of Ottawa, established in 2010
• Four of Canada’s top research universities, offering a comprehensive
range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs
• Diverse range of world-class researchers and facilities
• Primary objective is to coordinate outreach to international partner
institutions, particularly where the consortium can offer mutual
advantages of its four members to partners
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Why CALDO?
• Canada’s top research universities have — U15?
• CALDO universities are four of the best in the G-13; we believe
working together can achieve goals that the other G-13 universities
cannot achieve alone
• CALDO is a bold new initiative in Canada—an active consortium with
tight coordination and close connections, designed to interact
effectively with international partner institutions
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What CALDO offers
• Coordinated and centralized services to international partners and
their students
• The Executive Director, will lead operations of the consortium and
coordinate with international partner institutions to deliver :
One-stop Admissions
Student Mobility
Tuition support
Service and Support for Students
Support for Sponsoring Partners
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CALDO Universities
University of Alberta
Université Laval
Dalhousie University
University of Ottawa
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Edmonton, Canada
• 5th largest research
university in Canada
• More than 37,000 students
in 18 faculties
• More than $460 million (2012)
annual external research funding
• Home to Canada’s National Institute for Nanotechnology
www.ualberta.ca
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Strategic Research Areas:
1. Energy and Environment
2. Health
3. Science and Technology
4. Public Policy, Society & Humanities
www.ualberta.ca
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Energy and Environment
• SCENEREI (Sino-Canadian Energy and Environment Research
and Education Initiative)
Collaboration with Tsinghua University; interdisciplinary collaboration
(research and innovative and efficient technology development) to help
address global energy and environmental issues.
http://www.news.ualberta.ca/article.aspx?id=AB3DE3F3E28C455EB2B879047D23B211
• Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative
Links U of A to 16 elite research centres in Germany to develop cleaner,
greener oilsands and mining technologies
• Biodiversity Conservation and Agricultural Studies
Land reclamation, freshwater ecosystems, agricultural genomics
www.ualberta.ca
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Health
• Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology
World-class centre investigation efforts to treat and cure virus-based
diseases. More than $80 million investment from Li Ka Shing (Canada)
Foundation and the Government of Alberta
• Alberta Diabetes Institute (ADI)
Discovered the ground-breaking ‘Edmonton Protocol’—the standard for care
in clinical islet transplantation for treating diabetes. Researchers from eight
faculties work together at ADI.
• School of Public Health
Canada’s first stand-alone faculty dedicated to public health wellness
www.ualberta.ca
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Science and Technology
• National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT)
$120 million joint initiative: Canada’s National Research Council, UAlberta
and Alberta government; researchers are developing platforms for building
nanosystems and materials that can be constructed and programmed for
particular application; many UAlberta researchers are cross-appointed to NINT.
• Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS)
New building houses five research teams using an interdisciplinary approach to
scientific discovery:
1. Chemical Biology and Proteomics
2. Integrated Earth and Landscape Management
3. Nanostructures and New Materials
4. Planetary Dynamics
5. Resource Geosciences
www.ualberta.ca
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Public Policy, Society & Humanities
• Institute for Public Economics
Canada's largest group of active researchers in the field of public economics,
studying the public sector’s influence on the economy and society
• Research Institute in Women's Writing: The Orlando Project
Online cultural history of lives and works of over 1,200 British women writers.
Links humanities research with a technology-based business opportunity
• Western Centre for Economic Research
Research collaboration of three faculties (Business, Arts and Agriculture, Life and
Environment); to contribute to evidence-based government policy development.
www.ualberta.ca
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Université Laval
Québec City, Canada
• A comprehensive university
• A research intensive institution
• Located in a UNESCO world heritage city
www.ulaval.ca
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Université Laval
3 Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence
• Canadian Institute for Photonics Innovation
+ Canada Excellence Research Chair
• ArcticNet
+ Canada Excellence Research Chair
• Geomatics for Informed Decisions
www.ulaval.ca
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Université Laval
Health Research
Fundamental research is directly linked with clinical context.
• Neurosciences/Regenerative Medicine
• Institute of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
• Infectious Disease Research Centre
www.ulaval.ca
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Université Laval
Research in Humanities
Using a multidiscplinariy approach
• Institute for the Environment, Development and Society
• Institut Québécois des Hautes Études Internationales
• Poverty and Economic Policy Research Network
www.ulaval.ca
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Université Laval
Research in Agriculture and Forestry
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Research center on wood
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Research center on horticulture
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Research center for the study of forest
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Research center in geomatic
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Research center on reproductive biology
www.ulaval.ca
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Université Laval
Research in Engineering and Science
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Research center on optic, photonic and laser
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Research center on advance materials
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Research chair on robotic and mechatronic
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Research chair on electroactive and photoactive
polymers
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Research chair on biomaterials and bioengineering
www.ulaval.ca
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Halifax, Canada
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World leader in ocean’s research
Founded in 1818
18,200 students in 12 faculties
Number of faculty: 1,100
• Student /faculty ratio – 14:1
• 180 different degree programs
• Repeatedly ranked one of the
best places for researchers to
work (The Scientist)
• Environmental sustainability is a
campus-wide theme www.dal.ca
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Strategic Research Areas:
Oceans
Sustainable
Materials &
Clean Technology
Health
&
Wellness
Information
Agriculture
Science &
&
Communication
Food
Governance,
Society &
Culture
Energy
&
Earth Sciences
www.dal.ca
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Ocean Studies :
• Marine related studies: 350 PhD
qualified researchers in local cluster
• Canada Excellence Research Chair in
Ocean Science and Technology
• All 7 continents monitored by
Dalhousie's ground-breaking $160M
Ocean Tracking Network project
• One of the top 30 research institutes in
Oceanography – the only one in
Canada(Times Higher Education)
www.dal.ca
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Sustainable Materials and Clean Technology:
• Institute for Research in Materials
• More than 100 researchers from 7 Faculties, 18 departments
• Canada Research Chair in Materials for Batteries and Fuel Cells
• World authority on advanced lithium-ion batteries for electric
vehicles
• Materials for a sustainable future
• Environmentally-sustainable materials and manufacturing
• Bio-materials, advanced restoration materials
• Sustainable water management
www.dal.ca
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Health and Wellness:
• Biological structures and mechanisms
• Genomics
• Canada Research Chair, Bio-signalling
• Studying proteins and genes involved
in causing cancers and infectious
diseases including superbugs
• Neuroscience
• Canada Research Chair, Neuroscience
• Vaccines
• Pain, Addictions, Mental Health
• Health, environment and society
www.dal.ca
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Governance, Society and Culture :
• Ethics and values
• Canada Research Chair, Bioethics
and Philosophy
• Ethics of embryo research, stem
cell science, neuroscience
• Social justice and development
• Indigenous studies
• Migration
• Peace, conflict and security
• European studies
www.dal.ca
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• Ranked 171st in the world
-the 2012-2013 Times Higher Education
World University Rankings
• More than 40,000 students in 10 faculties
• More than $270 million in
annual external research funding
• Ranked as the 9th most research-intensive
university in Canada
• 4th in Canada for research impact in
Science and Engineering
• World’s largest bilingual university
(English/French)
www.uOttawa.ca
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The uOttawa Advantage
• Proximity to the Parliament of Canada, federal agencies and institutions
such as the National Research Council of Canada
– There are 126 embassies and high commissions in Ottawa.
• Industry and private sector:
Strong in the areas of ICT services and applications
• Strategic location for scientific and academic exchanges with other
educational institutions (e.g. Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Physics)
• Affiliation with the city’s major hospitals :
The Ottawa Hospital
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Montfort Hospital
Royal Ottawa Health Care Group
Bruyère Continuing Care
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uOttawa - Strategic Areas of
Development in Research
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Canada and the World
Health
e-Society
Molecular and Environmental Sciences
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uOttawa - Canada and the World
Research Centres & Schools
• The Centre for International Policy
Studies (CIPS)
A leader in Canada for informed
debate on foreign policy and
international affairs.
• School of International
Development and Global Studies
• Graduate School of Public and
International Affairs (GSPIA)
Main areas include:
The development of public and
international policies.
Faculty of Social Sciences
– Canada’s largest academic unit
specialized in international
development
Main areas include :
Growth, Private Sector, Social Inclusion.
www.uottawa.ca
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uOttawa - Health
• Ottawa Institute of Systems
Biology
– World-class institute that performs
research regarding the
understanding of human diseases
and the development of technology.
– >$10 million/yr in grants & contracts
• Institute of Population Health
Houses one of the PAHO/WHO
Collaborating Centre for Population
Health Risk Assessment
Health Sciences Complex
• University of Ottawa Heart
Institute
– Canada’s largest and foremost
cardiovascular health centre
– Research funding ~ $65 million/yr
www.uottawa.ca
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uOttawa - e-Society
• Institute for Science, Society and
Policy (ISSP)
Carries out research & teaching on the
relationship between society and science,
innovation and technology.
• Centre for Environmental Law and
Global Sustainability
Main areas of expertise include:
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• Text Analysis and Machine Learning
Group (TAMALE)
– World-class centre focus combines
data mining, text mining and language
engineering.
Colonel By Building – Faculty
of Engineering
Water law,
Sustainable food law,
Environmental law, and
Aboriginal law.
www.uottawa.ca
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uOttawa - Molecular and
Environmental Sciences
• Centre for Research in Photonics
More than 150 researchers;
attracting world-class experts
• Centre for Catalysis Research and
Innovation
• Centre for Advanced Research in
Environmental Genomics
Seeks to provide novel approaches to
solve problems of environmental
biology.
Advanced Research Complex
Photonics and Geoscience
Multidisciplinary centre with some
of Canada’s top researchers and
globally-recognized leaders in
homogeneous and heterogeneous
catalysis.
www.uottawa.ca
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Explore more research…
www.research.ualberta.ca
www.dal.ca/research
Université Laval
www2.ulaval.ca/en/research.html
www.research.uottawa.ca
Gracias!

Consortium of Alberta, Laval, Dalhousie and Ottawa Universities

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