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Working in Partnership with Canada's Universities

Linking up with academia

The NCE program simply could not exist without the significant support it receives from Canada's universities and other post-secondary institutions.

These schools of higher learning – along with their affiliated hospitals and research institutes – provide the infrastructure and research personnel required to build networks of knowledge across the country.

All of the networks are hosted by universities and all of the new Centres of Excellence for Commercialization of Research (CECRs) are either hosted by or have direct links to the centres of academia.

It is a mutually beneficial bond. NCE investments help universities to become centres of world-class research, attract top-flight faculty and train brilliant young graduate students. There is also the prestige factor: Dr. John Hepburn, Vice-President of Research at the University of British Columbia (UBC), which is a partner in five of the 11 CECRs, says NCE investments recognize his university's “international reputation for excellence, innovation and leadership.”

These partnerships underscore Canadian universities' commitment to working with the NCE program to accelerate the development of applied research to the benefit of all – research that works.

A province-by-province breakdown of Participating Universities

**REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF NCE UNIVERSITY AND NON-UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS AND HQP* SUPPORTED BY NCE AND NON-NCE FUNDS**
Provinces/ Teritoires	NCE Researchers		Total researchers	HQP supported by NCE funds	HQP supported by non-NCE funds	Total HQP	Total personnel
Provinces/ Teritoires	University	Non- university	Total researchers	HQP supported by NCE funds	HQP supported by non-NCE funds	Total HQP	Total personnel
NWT, Nunavut & Yukon	0	2	2	3	1	4	6
British Columbia	178	23	201	226	434	680	861
Alberta	197	22	219	258	372	630	849
Saskatchewan	28	1	29	23	35	58	87
Manitoba	39	21	60	91	66	157	217
Ontario	487	171	658	719	1,288	2,007	2,665
Quebec	255	33	288	455	652	1,107	1,395
New Brunswick	41	1	42	41	43	84	126
Nova Scotia	40	6	46	48	68	116	162
Prince Edward Island	1	1	2	10	4	14	16
Newfoundland and Labrador	10	2	12	26	15	41	53

Total Canadian	1,276	283	1,559	1,900	2,978	4,878	6,437
Total Foreign	17	18	35	5	15	20	55

Grand Total	1,293	301	1,594	1,905	2,993	4,898	6,492

* Highly Qualified Personnel refers to research staff such as research associates and technicians, and research trainees such as postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and summer students

University 1,293

Non-university 301

HQP supported by NCE funds 1,905

HQP supported by non-NCE funds 2,993

Total researchers 1,594

Total HQP 4,898

Total personnel 6,492

Did You Know?

PREVNet collaborated with the Family Channel in February 2008 to produce a lesson plan for teachers that included tips for dealing with bullying, and statistics on peer intervention, including:

Over 1,100,000 children are bullied each week;
Peers are present during 88% of bullying episodes; and
When peers intervene, bullying stops in less than ten seconds, 57% of the time.

Source: Family Channel and PREVNet's Stand up! Lesson plan for teachers