Research Placement Partners / Partenaires de placements pour les recherches

The Afro-Canadian Chamber of Commerce (ACCC) is dedicated to supporting Black businesses, entrepreneurs, and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Website: https://afrocanadianchamber.ca/

Founded in 2003, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is a pan-African network of centres of excellence for innovative scientific training, technical advances and breakthrough discoveries and public engagement in Mathematical Sciences. Through the Next Einstein Initiative, AIMS’s ecosystem continues to be expanded across Africa with centres in South Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon and Rwanda, as well as chapters in Canada and Europe. AIMS’s mission is to enable Africa’s brightest students to flourish as independent thinkers, problem solvers and innovators capable of propelling Africa’s future scientific, educational and economic self-sufficiency.

AIMS has trained over 2,200 young Africans, representing 43 African countries and 32% women in mathematical sciences. AIMS continues to develop capacities in STEM on the continent by training the next generation of African leaders in education, research and industry. To strengthen the employability skills of young Africans, AIMS has designed and successfully implemented several work-integrated learning (WIL), entrepreneurship and innovation programs across the network including the Cooperative Master program at AIMS centres in Cameroon, Rwanda and Senegal. AIMS is an institutional member of the World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE).

AIMS researchers work on various research topics including climate change science, epidemiology, data science (e.g., application of machine learning and AI), pure mathematics, mathematical statistics, financial mathematics, stochastic modelling, mathematical biology and Partial Differential Equation (PDE).

Website: https://nexteinstein.org/

CODE works to promote every child’s right to read. We are part of a global movement catalyzed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” CODE is committed to addressing an important part of the solution – and one of the most significant challenges standing in the way: teacher effectiveness – the single most important predictor of student learning.

Through work with local writers, teachers, publishers and librarians we seek to support and sustain the development of literacy learning in K-12 schools. Through the development and distribution of high quality books — and teachers  who know how to teach with them in classrooms– we help young people explore, interact with, discover and reflect on the world around them. This requires strong local publishing and greater understanding of the processes of learning to read – and teaching to read — and the kinds of books that children need at each stage as they develop their literacy skills and become life-long readers.

CODE supports research on issues that are  identified in collaboration with the African literacy and teacher education communities in order to help build a body of evidence that can be used to support education policy recommendations at local, regional, or national levels. This includes:

• advancing local literacy practices;
• advancing context specific ways of knowing;
• the intersection between literacy, education, and girls’ empowerment;
• the role that pre-service teacher education and in-service professional development plays in strengthening the educational opportunities for girls and vulnerable populations;
• the relationship between the school, the home, and the community and the role this plays in strengthening culturally relevant literacies;
• the impact of digital literacies as well as the use of technology in teacher education and classroom learning;
• the factors and/or interventions that contribute to reducing barriers to quality education for women and girls: with disabilities; in fragile, conflict, refugee and crisis situations; and/or in relation to the impact of the COVID pandemic
• access to quality education for refugees and internally displaced populations in Sub-Saharan Africa

Website: https://code.ngo/

CODE supports educational research under the “Context Matters Research Initiative”, which is  an ongoing program of support for an African research agenda in language and literacy.

See more at https://code.ngo/approach/research-initiatives/

IMPACT transforms how natural resources are managed in areas where security and human rights are at risk. We investigate and develop approaches for natural resources to improve security, development, and equality. We are an independent non-profit, collaborating with local partners for lasting change. Our approach is guided by the core belief and principle that lasting and transformative change in the natural resource sector will come by providing capacity, investment, and spotlight to local actors. Our work focuses on supporting those who suffer the effects and injustice of weak systems—to mobilize and challenge how their resources are being managed.

We work through five focus areas:
1) Regulatory and Legal Reform;
2) Supply Chain Transparency;
3) Illicit Trade and Financing;
4) Gender Equality;
5) Environmental Stewardship.

Website: www.impacttransform.org/

IMPACT transforme la gestion des ressources naturelles là où la sécurité et les droits de la personne sont à risque. Nous examinons et élaborons des approches en matière de ressources naturelles pour améliorer la sécurité, le développement et l’équité. Nous sommes un organisme indépendant, sans but lucratif, et travaillons de concert avec des partenaires locaux pour opérer un changement durable. Notre approche se fonde sur la conviction et le principe que le changement durable et transformateur dans le secteur des ressources naturelles passe par le développement des capacités et l’autonomisation des acteurs locaux, et l’investissement dans ceux-ci. Nous nous attachons à appuyer les personnes qui souffrent des conséquences et de l’injustice de la faiblesse des systèmes, afin qu’elles puissent se mobiliser et dénoncer la façon par laquelle les ressources sont gérées.

Pour ce faire, nous œuvrons dans cinq grands domaines :
1) Réforme réglementaire et judiciaire ;
2) Transparence des chaînes d’approvisionnement ;
3) Commerce et financement illicites ;
4) Égalité entre les genres ;
5) Intendance environnementale.

Siteweb : https://impacttransform.org/fr/

The mission of NewLife Project Inc. is to see women and youth rise to a place of divine accomplishment by fulfilling their purpose, rebuilding their broken lives, and attaining total restoration.

Their objective is for women and youth to be able to fulfil their purpose despite life’s challenges and still create opportunities for the future generation through determination, tenacity, and diligent work. They envision a world of international brotherhood and sisterhood where wealthy nations and individuals can connect to the lives of economically disadvantaged women and young people. They also see a world where the lives of past commercial sex traders, unemployed women, and uneducated children are nourished through education and entrepreneurship programs. Furthermore, they envision a world of empowered women which holds numerous opportunities, meaningful life and fulfilled dreams. NewLife Project Inc. also develops projects with the intention of helping families spend quality time together while acquiring vocational and entrepreneurial skills.

Website: https://newlifeprojectinc.org/ 

African Trade Desk is dedicated to promoting bilateral trade, commerce, economic development, education, and cultural exchange between the people and business enterprises of Canada and the countries of Africa. They are a one-stop information source for Canadian and international companies, investors and entrepreneurs that want to do business in Africa and vice versa.

African Trade Desk aims to increase trade between Canada and Africa and strengthen Canada’s exchanges with Africa’s growing marketplace. They organize conferences, trade shows and presentations for Canadian companies in specific sectors to highlight opportunities and raise awareness about the African markets and growth potential. They also engage in industry specific seminars and networking events for Canadian and African companies, investors, and fund and wealth managers.

Website: https://africatradedesk.com/

Saint Paul University (French: Université Saint-Paul) is a fully bilingual Catholic Pontifical university federated with the University of Ottawa since 1965. Saint Paul University is a research and higher education community entrusted to the Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The mission is to freely explore knowledge according to the Catholic intellectual tradition, which is open to continuous conversation between faith, reason and culture. The university is committed to seek the truth, to promote human dignity, justice, peace and the integrity of creation, as well as to put education at the service of the poor, while respecting Oblate values.

Website: https://ustpaul.ca/