A great kick-off for A World of Projects

$66 MILLION CONTRIBUTION TO HELP FULFIL THE DREAM SHARED BY THE UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL, HEC AND THE POLYTECHNIQUE

The business community has made a spectacular contribution to A World of Projects, the campaign designed to make the Université de Montréal, the École des Hautes Études Commerciales and the École Polytechnique into Quebec's world-class university complex. The J.-A. Bombardier Foundation, Hydro-Québec and the Succession J.A. de Sève have each donated $12 million to the campaign. Along with funds raised during the past few months, these donations have enabled the three institutions to start their campaign off with a bang by announcing that $66 million is already in the bank.

Paul Desmarais of the Power Corporation of Canada is serving as honorary president of the campaign, whose goal is to raise $125 million. André Caillé, president of Hydro-Québec, and Robert E. Brown, president and CEO of Bombardier Inc., are the campaign's co-presidents.

The campaign will totally reconfigure the campus, and open the door to 150 advanced research and development projects, including seven that will involve the three institutions, 40 that bring together the three institutions and other bodies on campus, and 100 others proposed by each of the partners.

A new campaign: A World of Projects

$125 MILLION FOR A WORLD-CLASS UNIVERSITY COMPLEX

If Quebec is to have a world-class university complex, it will be created by the Université de Montréal, École des Hautes Études Commerciales and École Polytechnique. This message was delivered loud and clear today by the honorary president of the campaign A World of Projects, Paul Desmarais of the Power Corporation of Canada, and co-presidents André Caillé and Robert E. Brown, president of Hydro-Québec and president and CEO of Bombardier Inc. respectively.

This campaign will totally reconfigure Montreal's largest campus, according to Robert Lacroix, rector of UdeM, Jean-Marie Toulouse, director of HEC, and Réjean Plamondon, general director of the Polytechnique.

This joint campaign, whose theme is A World of Projects, will take the form of 150 specific high-level R&D projects, including seven major projects that will create extensive synergies and require a firm commitment from the three institutions, about 40 joint interdisciplinary projects that bring together institutions and other bodies on campus (schools, faculties, departments etc.), as well as about 100 special projects proposed by each of the partners.

The campaign cabinet will consist of some of Quebec's most influential business people, who will rally the community behind the project in order to raise the $125 million needed to realize this vision for the future.

Global positioning
The Université de Montréal, École des Hautes Études Commerciales and École Polytechnique today form one of the leading scientific centres in North America, according to the heads of the three institutions. The main goal they are currently pursuing is to position the university complex on the world stage, where major societal changes are taking place and where the top researchers and professors can be hired.

A World of Projects at the Université de Montréal, HEC and Polytechnique

150 PROJECTS DEVELOPED BY THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY AND DRIVEN BY AN REMARKABLE SPIRIT OF INNOVATION

No fewer than $125 million will be invested in some 150 projects developed by the academic community. These projects will help meet new requirements in furthering knowledge in a variety of fields and contribute to reinventing methods for knowledge transfer.

Major synergistic projects
Seven major synergistic projects will form the thrust of this campaign by the three institutions. They will have a profound effect on the way teaching and research are conducted, by breaking down the usual interdisciplinary and organizational boundaries.

• Creation of the Réseau d'étude et d'aide à la gestion intégrée des risques (RÉAGIR), which will bring together researchers from various disciplines in order to make the organizations better able to manage risks, for example, in the areas of environment, human health and civil engineering, or in finance, insurance and technologies.
• Establishment of a network of e-commerce chairs. Three chairs will be set up, devoted to developing new technologies and business-to-business links, developing new technological platforms and analyzing factors in introducing and developing e-commerce.
• Creation of a research and study group for data processing, which will work on creating new algorithms and improving existing algorithms to optimize methods of processing large amounts of data.
• Creation of the Technopole, carrefour des sciences et de la technologie, which will serve for the development and upgrading of research, and foster partnerships with the government and the private sector, for the construction of new buildings for the complex.
• Creation of the Maison des technologies de formation et d'apprentissage, where the new information and telecommunications technologies will be used to develop tools and methods for teaching and learning the sciences, mathematics, engineering, management sciences and related disciplines.
• Introduction of two special scholarship funds, one to encourage mobility among undergraduates in the context of greater openness to the world, and another to attract and retain the best master's and Ph.D. students.

Joint projects
About 40 joint projects will also be set up as part of A World of Projects. These will be interdisciplinary projects involving schools, faculties, departments and research centres on campus to create centres of excellence that will foster the training of up-and-coming scientists and professionals.

Specific projects
Lastly, the three institutions also have plans for about 100 projects to ensure that they remain at the leading edge of excellence in their respective fields.

A World of Projects: breaking down the barriers

THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY RALLIES TO SUPPORT THE CREATION OF A WORLD-CLASS UNIVERSITY COMPLEX IN QUEBEC

Robert Lacroix, rector of the Université de Montréal, Jean?Marie Toulouse, director of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, and Réjean Plamondon, general director of the École Polytechnique, along with Paul Desmarais of Power Corporation of Canada, honorary president of the campaign A World of Projects, and campaign co-presidents André Caillé and Robert E. Brown, president of Hydro-Québec, and president and CEO of Bombardier Inc. respectively, today shared with their guests their vision for the future of Montreal's university complex. Following are excerpts from their speeches.

Robert Lacroix
Rector, Université de Montréal
"Launching A World of Projects is nothing less than launching an ambitious $125 million program, whose goal is to create a world-class university complex in Quebec with the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, the École Polytechnique and the Université de Montréal."

"We are very proud to tell you today that A World of Projects is our entire community's concern. When I say entire, I mean professors, researchers, students, and current and former employees of the complex, who have each contributed in their own way to this incredible effort. I would like to acknowledge their contribution publicly and express my heartfelt thanks."

Jean-Marie Toulouse
Director, École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal
"These various projects will deal with extremely timely issues that managers have to face every day-issues of leadership, energy management, organizational performance management, management of multinational companies and the functioning of boards of directors."

"A World of Projects will provide a new burst of energy to the École des HEC and its long-standing mission: to be a leading world-calibre business school focusing on the mastery of new technologies and international partnerships."

Réjean Plamondon
Director general, École Polytechnique de Montréal
"I have the utmost confidence in our ability to tackle these challenges. Every year, the Polytechnique signs 300 contracts with industry and governments, for a total value of over $11 million."

Our competencies and our experience in partnerships are two indisputable assets that will enable us to make a strong contribution to A World of Projects."

Paul Desmarais
Power Corporation of Canada
Honorary President, A World of Projects
"In this context, the importance of the university is obvious. While post-secondary education, research and development have always made a major contribution to societal development, they have crossed a new threshold. They are now vital and indispensable components of our evolution. And they are also major competitive factors in development and positioning, between both companies and countries-and even entire continents."

André Caillé
Hydro-Québec
Campaign Co-president
I accepted this co-presidency because I am convinced of the importance of taking part in a society-wide project that will help give university teaching and research in Quebec its full due, and especially because I firmly believe that this project represents the only real possibility we have of creating a world-class French-language university complex here in Montreal."

"In a world where the quest for excellence is imperative, young people are our brightest hope. At the Université de Montréal, HEC and Polytechnique, there are 46,000 of these young people, each with their own dream. It is our responsibility to help them make these dreams come true".

Robert E. Brown
Bombardier Inc.
Campaign Co-president
Our society is facing one of the greatest challenges of all time: the acquisition and development of new knowledge and skills. The Université de Montréal, HEC and Polytechnique are challenging us to grow with them and place knowledge and skills at the forefront of our society."

Répartition des projets par grandes catégories

PROJETS INTÉGRATEURS HÉC-POLY-UDEM
Groupe d'étude et de recherche en exploitation de bases de données (Data mining )
Réseau d'étude et d'aide à la gestion intégrée des risques (RÉAGIR)
Réseau de chaires en commerce électronique
Groupe d'étude et de recherche sur les technologies de formation et d'apprentissage
Technopole - Carrefour des sciences et des technologies
Fonds de Bourses de mobilité étudiante (1er cycle)
Fonds de Bourses d'excellence aux cycles supérieurs (2ème et 3ème cycles)

LA FORMATION ET SES OUTILS
Centre de formation pédagogique en sciences de la santé
Modernisation des laboratoires de la Faculté de médecine dentaire
Modernisation et développement de la Bibliothèque de droit
Multimédia en création artistique
Rénovation et agrandissement de l'Hôpital vétérinaire

LE MULTIMÉDIA, L'INFORMATIQUE ET LES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS
Conception des systèmes électroniques intégrés
Design d'applications multimédias mobiles
Génie informatique d'applications sur Internet
Génie réseautique et protocoles de communication
Ingénierie des ondes millimétriques
Nouveaux systèmes photoniques pour les télécommunications
Production multimédia
Télécommunications sans fil

ORGANISATION ET GESTION DES RESSOURCES HUMAINES
Chaire en innovation organisationnelle
Chaire en leadership
Direction des personnes
Gestion de la rémunération en tant que levier stratégique
Gestion des performances des organisations

LE COMMERCE, LE MARKETING ET LA DISTRIBUTION
Centre HEC d'excellence en gestion de vente
Chaire en distributique
Chaire sur les marchés panaméricains
Différentiation de l'offre des détaillants par l'atmosphère du magasin
Marketing des sports

LE DROIT, L'ÉTHIQUE ET LA GOUVERNANCE
Centre de recherche en politiques de taxation et fiscalité
Chaire de médecine d'assurance et d'expertise médico-légale
Chaire en juricomptabilité
Chaire Jean-Louis Beaudoin en droit civil
Chaire Multifacultaire en bio-éthique
Chaire sur les conseils d'administration
Développement éthique des organisations
Droit des affaires et commerce international
Droit des technologies de l'information et du commerce électronique
Éthique fondamentale et appliquée

LA LITTÉRATURE, LA CULTURE ET LES ARTS
Chaires en études allemandes
Chaire en études est asiatiques
Chaire en études latino-américaines
Chaire en études québécoises
Fonds de soutien à l'Atelier d'opéra de l'Université
Gestion des Arts
Quatuor à cordes en résidence (Quatuor Alcan)

LA SOCIÉTÉ ET LA POLITIQUE
Centre inter-universitaire de liaison et de transfert sur l'intervention et la prévention psychosociale
Chaire d'enseignement et de recherche Religion, Culture, Société
Chaire Jean Monnet
Rapports entre générations : Recherche, intervention et sensibilisation

L'URBANISME, L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET LE DÉVELOPPEMENT DURABLE
Contrôle des émissions polluantes
Environnement et gestion des rejets miniers
Études en aménagement de ville intérieure
Gestion de projets d'aménagement
Institut de recherche sur les municipalités québécoises
Intégration des procédés papetiers
Laboratoire de prototypage rapide
Conception et réhabilitation parasismique

LES NOUVEAUX MATÉRIAUX
Alliages à mémoire de forme
Bio-polymères
Élaboration et pressage des poudres métalliques
Matériaux réfractaires pour l'industrie de l'aluminium
Matériaux supra moléculaires
Nanoingénierie des matériaux
Nouveaux matériaux pour technologies électrochimiques
Polymères conducteurs ioniques

HAUTES TECHNOLOGIES ET L'AÉROSPATIALE
Chaire en aéronautique
Conception et expérimentation de petits satellites
Design et ingénierie multidisciplinaire
Interactions fluide-structure et vibrations induites
Système de fabrication virtuelle
Technologie de l'étanchéité statique d'assemblages pressurisés
Technologies souples en fabrication
Thermique avancée

LE MANAGEMENT STRATÉGIQUE ET LA RECHERCHE OPÉRATIONNELLE
Chaire CMA international d'analyse des processus d'affaires
Chaire en finance mathématique
Choix stratégiques et acteurs organisationnels
Gestion de la firme multinationale
Gestion des technologies de l'information dans l'économie du savoir¨

LA GESTION DES PROCESSUS
Chaire en gestion de l'énergie
Chaire en gestion des approvisionnements
Systèmes intégrés de gestion des ressources
Gestion des opérations dans les transports publics
Gestion dans le secteur des télécommunications
Transformateurs de distribution basse tension

LES SCIENCES ET LE GÉNIE DU VIVANT
Stérilisation de dispositifs médicaux
Biomatériaux et stérilisation des biomatériaux
Nouveaux matériaux médicaux
Chaire en néphrologie
Génie tissulaire du cartilage
Synthèse stéréo sélective de médicaments
Design des procédés pharmaceutiques
Chirurgie orthopédique assistée par ordinateur
Nouvelles modalités d'imagerie médicale
Imagerie et intervention cardio-vasculaire
Mécanique des biofluides humains
Dispositifs médicaux intelligents
Biologie de transplantation
Fonds de recherche en physiologie

TÉLÉMÉDECINE APPLIQUÉE
Télésurveillance du diabète
Évaluation des technologies de la santé
Pharmacologie de la maladie parodontale

LE CERVEAU
Chaire en psychiatrie
Chaire en psychiatrie légale clinique
Chaire en schizophrénie clinique
Psychopharmacologie
Chaire pharmaceutique en pharmacothérapie psychiatrique
Chaire en neurosciences

LA VISION
Optométrie-1
Chaire en optométrie expérimentale
Chaire Essilor sur la physiologie de la presbytie
Institut de recherche en sciences de la vision
Fonds de recherche en ophtalmologie
Chaire pharmaceutique en pharmacothérapie oculaire

LA SANTÉ ET LE TROISIÈME ÂGE
Chaire en gériatrie clinique
Chaire pharmaceutique en géronto-gériatrie clinique
Recherche en soins infirmiers à la personne âgée et à la famille
Chaire en gériatrie cognitive
Chaire en gestion de soins gériatriques

LES SOINS DE SANTÉ ET LA PRÉVENTION
Chaire Mari-Lou et Yves Cotrel de recherche en orthopédie
Prévention des traumatismes dus aux transports
Études sur le syndrome d'immunodéficience acquise (SIDA)
Chaire en arthrose
Chaire en cancer du sein
Lutte anti-parasitaire intégrée
Étude sur le sommeil
Chaire en fibrose kystique
Chaire en greffe de moelle osseuse
Chaire en infectiologie et résistance
Chaire en médecine familiale
Chaire en médecine transfusionnelle
Chaire en traumatologie
Chaire pharmaceutique en santé des femmes
Clinique de Kinésiologie
Gestion de la santé

LES ANIMAUX ET NOUS
Institut de biotechnologie vétérinaire et alimentaire
Salubrité des viandes
Recherche en thérapies géniques vétérinaires
Recherche avicole

Profile of three participing institutions

A FIRST-CLASS UNIVERSITY COMPLEX

Ranked second in Canada for

• No. of students : 46,000
• Number of master's degrees and doctorates awarded : 2,544
• Research funds : $199,000,000
  (30 % of total research funds for Quebec universities))

A UNIVERSITY COMPLEX OPEN TO THE WORLD AROUND IT

• 55 % of the 26,000 undergraduates enrolled in professional programs
• Several thousand foreign students (3,400) in the three institutions
• Professional training programs for 12,500 adults
• 150 research units
• 25 % of research projects involving private-sector partnerships, one of the highest rates in North America
• Cooperative agreements with over 50 countries

OTHER INFORMATION

Teaching staff
(on duty, on leave or seconded, as at May 31, 1999)

Personnel
(as at May 31, 1999)

Dernière modification: 11 avril 2000