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Dalhousie University is Atlantic Canada’s leading research-intensive university. Located in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia, with an Agricultural Campus in Truro/Bible Hill, Dalhousie is a truly national and international university, with more than half of the university’s 20,000-plus students coming from outside the province. Dal’s 6,000 faculty and staff foster a diverse, purpose-driven community, one that spans 13 faculties and conducts more than $181 million in research annually. Part of a cluster identified as one of the world’s top international centres in ocean research, the university proudly celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2018.
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Local Advantage. Regional Leadership. Global Impact.
Dalhousie University is Atlantic Canada’s leading research-intensive university. Located in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia, with an Agricultural Campus in Truro/Bible Hill, Dalhousie is a truly national and international university, with more than half of the university’s 20,000-plus students coming from outside the province. Dal’s 6,000 faculty and staff foster a diverse, purpose-driven community, one that spans 13 faculties and conducts more than $181 million in research annually. Part of a cluster identified as one of the world’s top international centres in ocean research, the university proudly celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2018.
Impact for a better society
Within the European Commission, the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation defines and implements European Research and Innovation (R&I) policy with a view to reinforcing the science and technology base, spurring innovation and turning societal challenges into innovation opportunities that will help deliver on the European Commission priorities.
Visit website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation_en
‘Destination Europe: Your Research and Innovation Opportunities’
The European University for Brain and Technology (NeurotechEU) is an Alliance of 8 Universities across Europe along with 250+ partners across sectors. Together we are building a trans-European network of excellence in brain research and technologies to increase the competitiveness of European education, research, economy, and society. The founding universities of the NeurotechEU are Radboud Universiteit (NL), Universidad Miguel Hernández (ES), Karolinska Institutet (SE), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (DE), Boğaziçi Üniversitesi (TR), University of Oxford (UK), Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie din Cluj-Napoca (RO), Debreceni Egyetem (HU).
Educate, innovate, impact together.
The Helmholtz Association consists of 19 independent Research Centers all over Germany with more than 40,000 employees and an annual budget of 5 billion euros. Helmholtz contributes to solving major challenges facing society, science, and the economy in six Research Fields: Energy, Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Matter, and Aeronautics, Space, and Transport. We develop sustainable solutions for the future and cover the entire spectrum from basic to application-oriented research. We research highly complex systems using our large-scale devices and infrastructure (such as research icebreakers, satellites, particle accelerators, supercomputers or wind tunnels), cooperating closely with national and international partners. Current topics that our Centers work on – to name just a few – include information and date science, climate research, hydrogen research, and quantum technologies.
View website: https://www.helmholtz.de/en/
Research for grand challenges
Founded in 1425, KU Leuven has been a centre of learning for almost six centuries. Today, it is Belgium’s highest-ranked university as well as one of the oldest and most renowned universities in Europe. As a leading European research university and co-founder of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and Ena Europa, KU Leuven offers a wide variety of programmes in English. These programmes are supported by high-quality interdisciplinary research carried out at both the university and its internationally acclaimed hospitals. Boasting an outstanding central location in the heart of Europe, KU Leuven offers a truly international experience, high-quality education, world-class research, and cutting-edge innovation.
KU Leuven consistently performs well in the international rankings. It is currently ranked 45th in the Times Higher Education World Ranking and 84th in the QS World University Ranking. The university is named Europe’s most innovative university four years in a row by Reuters.
View website: https://www.kuleuven.be/en
Inspiring the Outstanding.
The Max Planck Society is one of Germany’s leading research organizations in the field of basic research. Ours is a principle of excellence – in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
More than 13,000 researchers at 86 Max Planck Institutes (MPIs) strive to extend frontiers and advance into new dimensions of knowledge. We hire the best scientists worldwide and give them everything they need to pursue their mission. We promote junior scientists as well as Ph.D. students, postdocs or research group leaders.
The working environment at MPIs is open, stimulating and international. More than a third of around 13,000 scientists hold a foreign passport. They form a creative cosmos in which interdisciplinary and intercultural concepts and ideas come to bear.
Facilitating the career ascent of female scientists has been a priority for us for over a decade now. The Max Planck Society boasts the highest number of women on scientific staff in Germany – even in leading positions.
View website: https://www.mpg.de/en
Knowledge can light up the world.
McGill University—founded in 1821—is one of Canada’s best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world.
With two academic campuses, over 300 programs of study, and 40 000 students from 150 countries, McGill is amongst the most internationally diverse student-bodies of any research-intensive university in the country.
Today at McGill, professors are building the new field of epigenetics, developing alternative energy sources from crop plants and driving human achievement in every field imaginable.
View website: https://www.mcgill.ca/research/
McGill University Climate & Health Booth
McMaster University is Canada’s most research-intensive university and is consistently ranked as one of the world’s Top 100 universities. Together, our researchers, students and staff advance human and societal health and well-being, creating a Brighter World.
View website: https://globalnexus.mcmaster.ca
Global Nexus for Pandemics and Biological Threats
Facilitate the creation and development of partnerships, collaboration and outreach between R&I players in Quebec and the European Union.
View website: https://cn-eu-researchcollab.com/
Direction of Canadian and International Innovation Partnerships
The European Union is a priority STI partner for Canada. We deeply value the many partnerships between our respective research organizations. There is a strong interest in Canada to further enhance bilateral collaboration, and work with the EU to develop a flexible framework that will enable greater opportunities for research and innovation cooperation. The Mission of Canada to the European Union is at the forefront of Canada’s STI cooperation with the EU, and has the mandate to connect Canada’s research ecosystem and research intensive SMEs with European partners.
View website: https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_relations-relations_internationales/eu-ue/index.aspx?lang=eng
Government of Canada
As Canada’s engaged university, Simon Fraser University (SFU) works with communities, organizations and partners to create, share and embrace knowledge that improves life and generates real change. We deliver a world-class education with lifelong value that shapes changemakers, visionaries and problem-solvers. We connect research and innovation to entrepreneurship and industry to deliver sustainable, relevant solutions to today’s problems. With campuses in British Columbia’s three largest cities—Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey—SFU has eight faculties that deliver 193 undergraduate degree programs and 127 graduate degree programs to more than 35,000 students. The university now boasts more than 165,000 alumni residing in 143 countries.
View website: https://www.sfu.ca
Addressing Environmental Concerns and Creating a Sustainable Future
Sorbonne University is a world-class research university with the comprehensive range of arts, humanities, medicine, natural sciences and engineering. The University offers its 55,300 students the best educational opportunities for success, through mono-disciplinary, bi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs. Sorbonne University has more than 100 laboratories, with 3,400 academic researchers and another 3,000 researcher partners from the major French research organizations. The university has exceptional trans-disciplinary institutes and initiatives to meet our 21st century challenges. The University’s robust, innovation ecosystem offers end-to-end transfer capabilities, bringing research results into the market and an entrepreneurial mindset to students and staff.
The Sorbonne University Alliance brings together the National Museum of Natural History, the Compiègne University of Technology, INSEAD, the Paris Boulogne Billancourt Superior Pole for the Performing Arts and the CIEP. As a long-standing member of EUA and the LERU, Sorbonne University is active in the development of European policy, is the headquarters for the European Marine Biological Research Centre and is a founding member of a pilot European University, the 4EU+ Alliance. The University’s international co-operation in strategic partnerships enables its students, academics and researchers to increase their exchanges with the rest of the world.
View website: https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en
Sorbonne University: An Engine for Research
The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world. Since 1915, UBC’s entrepreneurial spirit has embraced innovation and challenged the status quo. UBC encourages its students, staff and faculty to challenge convention, lead discovery and explore new ways of learning. At UBC, bold thinking is given a place to develop into ideas that can change the world.
View website: https://research.ubc.ca/
Transitioning Towards Green & Low Carbon Energy
Founded in 1088, Bologna University is the oldest university in the world and it has been student-centred whilst attracting prominent figures from science and the arts. Today it is a leader in the European Higher Education Area and famous for its beauty and integration with the city. Its teaching catalogue is diversified and tailored to the needs of present-day society: 221 degree programmes of which 78 international and 62 taught in English, 33 Departments and over 87,000 students. A further 4.000 are candidates for its PhDs and 3rd cycle programmes. The calibre of its graduates, its internationally renowned teachers and its quality research give it a competitive edge, especially in the job market.
The University of Bologna has a Multicampus structure, with campuses in Bologna and the Romagna region – Cesena, Forlì, Ravenna and Rimini, and permanent headquarter in Buenos Aires since 1998 coordinating research, post-graduate training and academic liaison with Latin America. Beyond its close European links Bologna enjoys multiple international connections, with North America, Africa, Asia and Australia.
With regard to the international reputation, the University of Bologna is among the top 5 Italian universities in the main International rankings. It aims for excellence both in the education and in research. It has been successfully evaluated and thus funded by the Italian Ministry of Education for excellent research activities within its Departments. It is the second Italian University in terms of funds received by the European Commission under the Research and Innovation Programme Horizon2020. The Alma Mater ranks among the top universities in Europe for funding for competitive research.
The University of Bologna is committed to the values of sustainability, such as enhancing and safeguarding the territory, improving community wellbeing, promoting a knowledge-based development economy, social equity, and the ability of those involved to work effectively together for the common good.
View website: https://www.unibo.it/en/research
Innovating the future, since 1088
Deeply rooted in Montreal and dedicated to its international mission, Université de Montréal is a leading research university. It ranks among the top 100 universities worldwide and among the five best French-language universities. With its affiliated schools, Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal, UdeM attracts over $500 million in research funding every year, making it one of the top three university research hubs in Canada. UdeM has more than 67,000 students, 2,300 professors and researchers, and an active global network of 400,000 alumni.
View website: https://www.umontreal.ca/en/executive-team/marie-josee-hebert/
Université de Montréal
The oldest French-speaking university in North America, Université Laval is located in Quebec City and is one of Canada’s leading research universities. A leader in distance learning, it employs more than 1,600 professors, over 2,500 lecturers and other teaching and research staff who share their knowledge with more than 43,000 students, 26% of whom are enrolled in graduate studies. Driven by a spirit of innovation and the pursuit of excellence, the University values diversity and is proud of the members of its community, who come from 120 countries.
View website: https://www.ulaval.ca/en/
Dare, Inspire, Achieve: Building the Future Together
University of Helsinki is Finland’s largest and oldest academic institution. Since 1640, it has contributed to the establishment of a fair and equal society that is considered the best in the world according to a number of indicators. Today, this multidisciplinary academic community solves problems that concern all of us, also on the global scale. A community of 40,000 students and employees is diversely open, comprehensively quality conscious and joyfully serious. Internationalisation means many things for us. Together we create solutions that will shape the future of our planet and all of humanity.
With the Power of Thought – for the World
The University of Manitoba is western Canada’s first university, established in 1877, and located on original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are Manitoba’s only research-intensive university, and one of the country’s top research institutions. We attract people from around the world who share our ideals and vision for positive change. We believe in embracing challenges and taking action. Our students, researchers and alumni bring their unique voices to learning and discovery, shaping new ways of doing things and contributing to important conversations on topics that matter most, from human rights to global health to climate change. We are where imagination and action collide.
View website: https://www.umanitoba.ca/research
Research. Innovation. Discovery.
The University of Saskatchewan is one of Canada’s oldest and most distinguished universities. A member of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities, our signature areas of research excellence include: agriculture, water security, energy and mineral resources, “one health” (an integrated approach to animal, human and environmental health), Indigenous peoples, and innovative applications of Canada’s only synchrotron research facility, the USask-owned Canadian Light Source. USask is home to globally important research centres that include the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization – International Vaccine Centre, Global Institute for Water Security, Global Institute for Food Security, Crop Development Centre, and Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences. We are leaders and active players in international engagement, with a strong track record of accomplishments at home and abroad, and more than 160,000 alumni around the world.
View website: https://www.usask.ca/
The University the World Needs
Waterloo is at the forefront of innovation and is home to transformational research and inspired learning. Located in the heart of Canada’s technology hub, we are growing a network of global partnerships that will shape the future by working beyond disciplines and building bridges with industry, institutions and communities.
Our incredible people and partners take us beyond the lives we’re living today, to find solutions to the global challenges that lie ahead, creating change that goes beyond the status quo and is felt around the world.
Waterloo goes beyond—to challenge, connect and propel our world.
View website: https://uwaterloo.ca/