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Consortium of Alberta, Laval, Dalhousie and Ottawa Universities CALDO Consortium of Alberta, Laval, Dalhousie and Ottawa Universities CALDO

CALDO Consortium of Alberta, Laval, Dalhousie and Ottawa Universities


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


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


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


CALDO Universities

University of Alberta

Université Laval

Dalhousie University

University of Ottawa


• 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

University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada


1. Energy and Environment

2. Health

3. Science and Technology

4. Public Policy, Society & Humanities


Strategic Research Areas:

www.ualberta.ca



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



Health

www.ualberta.ca

• 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



Science and Technology

www.ualberta.ca

• 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



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


• A comprehensive university

• A research intensive institution

• Located in a UNESCO world heritage city

Université Laval Québec City, Canada

www.ulaval.ca


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

Université Laval

www.ulaval.ca


Health Research

Fundamental research is directly linked with clinical context.

• Neurosciences/Regenerative Medicine

• Institute of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods

• Infectious Disease Research Centre

Université Laval

www.ulaval.ca

http://www.chuq.qc.ca/fr/hdq_2010.htm


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

Université Laval

www.ulaval.ca


Research in Agriculture and Forestry


• Research center on wood

• Research center on horticulture

• Research center for the study of forest

• Research center in geomatic

• Research center on reproductive biology

Université Laval

www.ulaval.ca


Research in Engineering and Science


• Research center on optic, photonic and laser

• Research center on advance materials

• Research chair on robotic and mechatronic

• Research chair on electroactive and photoactive polymers

• Research chair on biomaterials and bioengineering

Université Laval

www.ulaval.ca


Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada

• 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



www.dal.ca

Strategic Research Areas:

Oceans Health

&

Wellness

Governance,

Society &

Culture

Agriculture

&

Food

Energy

&

Earth Sciences

Information

Science &

Communication

Sustainable

Materials &

Clean Technology


• 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

Ocean Studies :


• 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

Sustainable Materials and Clean Technology:


Dalhousie University 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



www.dal.ca

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


• 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

University of Ottawa


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


uOttawa - Strategic Areas of Development in Research

• Canada and the World

• Health

• e-Society

• Molecular and Environmental Sciences


www.uottawa.ca

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

– Canada’s largest academic unit specialized in international development

Main areas include : Growth, Private Sector, Social Inclusion.

• Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA)

Main areas include: The development of public and international policies.

Faculty of Social Sciences


uOttawa - Health Research Centres & Schools

• 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

• University of Ottawa Heart Institute

– Canada’s largest and foremost cardiovascular health centre

– Research funding ~ $65 million/yr

• Institute of Population Health

Houses one of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment

Health Sciences Complex

www.uottawa.ca


www.uottawa.ca

uOttawa - e-Society Research Centres & Schools

• 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:

− Water law,

− Sustainable food law,

− Environmental law, and

− Aboriginal law.

• 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


www.uottawa.ca

uOttawa - Molecular and Environmental Sciences Research Centres & Schools

• Centre for Research in Photonics

More than 150 researchers; attracting world-class experts

• Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation

Multidisciplinary centre with some of Canada’s top researchers and globally-recognized leaders in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.

• Centre for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics

Seeks to provide novel approaches to solve problems of environmental biology.

Advanced Research Complex Photonics and Geoscience


Explore more research…

Dalhousie University www.dal.ca/research

University of Ottawa www.research.uottawa.ca

University of Alberta www.research.ualberta.ca

Université Laval www2.ulaval.ca/en/research.html

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