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Action Plan
Research,
Discovery,
Creation and
Innovation
2017-2021
Guidance Document –
Excerpt
Université de Montréal is one of the largest research hubs in Canada and the
French-speaking world. At a time when multiple fundamental forces of change
are intersecting, academic research and scientific rigour are more important
than ever. This guidance document positions the research and innovation
activities of Université de Montréal in a global context. It takes into account
UdeM’s performance in research and teaching, its unique role in the communities
of Montréal, Québec, and Canada, and its international, national, and provincial
public policies and strategies for research and innovation. It supports research
by affirming its primary objective: the discovery, advancement, and mobilization
of knowledge.
Office of the Vice-Rector Research,
Discovery, Creation and InnovationOrientations and
development strategies
This section presents the results of analysis and consultations through the
The orientations and development strategies that will guide
our actions over the next years in research.
Five strategies are used to guide our orientations:
1. Identify cross-cutting research topics that 3. Implement a research equity and diversity plan;
combine various hubs of excellence and strengthen
the process of starting and supporting major
research projects; 4. Increase support and training services that
promote and model responsible conduct in research;
2. Facilitate the Innovation Laboratory to
stimulate links between research and teaching 5. Identify policies that support broad and open
activities and ensure their relevance in programs dissemination of knowledge and research data
through the implementation of major projects; produced at UdeM.
Strategic orientations
The aspirations of Université de Montréal regarding research, discovery, creation, and innovation
can be summarized by our strategic orientations:
1. Affirm the positioning 2. Support the development of 3. Stimulate the training of
of UdeM as a powerful vector world-class research, creation, and next-generation researchers
of discovery, creation, and innovation environments positioned and creators to remain at the
innovation; at the interface of our hubs of forefront of knowledge;
excellence;
4. Provide a model 5. Increase the impact of UdeM
environment for diversity, equity, research and its contribution to
and responsible conduct in society;
research;
2Four structuring
research projects
Structuring research projects bring together cross-cutting research topics to cultivate
interactions between faculty, academic units, and partners, and establish close links
between studies and research. These projects are based on unique interdisciplinary
encounters whose purpose is to propose original and fruitful perspectives that offer
answers to today’s issues.
Projet 1 — Projet 2 —
From Data to Action Understanding and Creating. Creating
in Health to understand.
Recognized hubs of excellence in data science Understanding and Creating brings together the
and artificial intelligence come together at the humanities and social sciences and arts and letters
Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO), which has in an interdisciplinary perspective and provides an
received a $93.6 million grant from the Canada First opening to intersectoral cooperation. The initiative
Research Excellence Fund. IVADO contributes to is based on the premise that research and teaching
the advancement of knowledge and to training the can be an extraordinary way to empower people and
next generation of data scientists at the cutting- communities based on their needs, strengths, and
edge of operational research and deep learning, aspirations. The project was born from a firm desire
and promotes the development of a new economy to promote university-community permeability.
evolving around massive data processing to support It advocates the co-creation of knowledge and
decision-making. practices as well as research-creation as a space
for dialogue and reciprocity with communities. The
The project From Data to Action in Health, in
approach may involve the creation of a piece of
conjunction with IVADO, aims to increase research
work, a product, a material or virtual environment,
and training opportunities at the interface between
a training activity, or a service, among other
artificial intelligence, operational research, and
things. Within the framework of Understanding
life sciences. The project will bring together the
and Creating, objects may include experiential
best of research in oncology, immunology, and
knowledge, memory, culture, heritage, digital
cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. It will
humanities, narratives, and the relationship between
create or strengthen links between data science,
the arts, society, and the environment.
biomedical sciences including therapeutic
innovation and drug discovery, “omic” approaches, In addition to generating new teaching and
personalized health, imaging, patient expertise, research initiatives that may take such forms as
health systems, ethics, and legal aspects, with the interdisciplinary summer schools, field-based
goal of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to training organized around missions or challenges
the valorization of health data, in a perspective of from the public, and innovative co-creation or
social acceptability. research-creation projects, the project will develop
new ways of interacting with the community, in
particular, through the establishment of a platform
for interaction with
the public.
3 3Projet 3 — Building a Sustainable
Future
Sectors of
Building a Sustainable Future brings together excellence
for UdeM
sectors of excellence from the fields of natural
sciences, humanities and social sciences, public
health, political science, and law — with a special
purpose: to work in a coherent and concerted way
to equip citizens and decision makers to confront 1. Acquisition of knowledge
socio-environmental and humanitarian challenges in • Theories, policies, measures and
ultimate goals of education
a sustainable way.
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• Images in motion
• Languages (oral, musical, visual,
The project will foster, among other things, closer
digital, the teaching profession —
links between our hubs of excellence in the areas of education)
new materials, energy, transportation, public health, • Learning, psychology and
development
microbiology, animal welfare, biodiversity, land-use
2. Creation and experiential
planning, and related regulatory mechanisms. The
knowledge
project will also build on the success of on-going
• Research-creation (music, film, design,
interdisciplinary and inter-institutional initiatives, urban planning, architecture,
literature)
including IVADO, as well as our hubs of excellence
• Co-creation/co-construction,
in operational research and artificial intelligence. reception and audiences
(narratives, urban planning, music,
patient involvement, community
involvement)
• Digital humanities
Projet 4 — Life Rethought • Indigenous perspectives and
practices
This project brings together the strengths
• Gender studies (diversity, equity)
of research in neuroscience, mental health, • Film, art history and video games
vision, rehabilitation, development, aging,
3. Imagination, values and
and computational neuroscience to increase collective heritages
opportunities for innovation through the collision • Diversity and interculturalism
of ideas and expertise. The project is rooted in • Language, literature and society
our hubs of excellence in both human and animal • Intermediality (music, film,
literature, communication, video
health and embraces life from beginning to end. It games, interactive design, art history)
promotes exchanges between teams interested in • Religions and sociocultural
perspectives of the sacred
early life and childhood, and seniors and end of life. • Memory, heritage and civilization
(digital and conservation tools)
The project enables collaborations that touch on
both the physiological mechanisms of development 4. Foundations of reality
and aging and the social, organizational, and • Mathematics
• Physics and foundations of matter
political interrelationships underlying the
• Universe and exoplanets
demographic changes that characterize 21st century • Nature of reality, philosophy,
society. Thus, by considering life from beginning cosmogony
to end, and its organization, this project calls us to 5. The brain, thinking, perception
review our fundamental understanding of thought, • Cognition and neurosciences
(motor control and oral motor
language, memory, movement, and learning, as
control, vision, pain, musical
well as individual and collective mechanisms and neurocognition, trauma, CVA,
sleep, organic brain syndrome)
technologies of adaptation.
• Neuropsychology and psychology
• Epistemology (anthropology,
linguistics, sociology)
4UdeM’s sectors of excellence are the result of Our sectors of excellence form the
concerted development efforts and investments foundations on which we base the
over many years. Each sector targets a unique development of strategic original and
field of research, research that is exceptional and innovative groupings. In this section, the
impactful, as well as an innovative approach to sectors are presented from a series of
research and creativity, with great potential for keywords that focus on specific fields of
interdisciplinarity. expertise.
6. The life cycle 10. Determinants of health 13. Data in action
• Beginning of life (reproduction, • Psychological, sociological and • Artificial intelligence (machine
conception, birth, prematurity) economic determinants (mental learning, deep learning, neural
• End of life (aging, death) health, aggression, violence, social networks)
and economic status, inequalities) • Science of decision-making
• Development (adaptation through
life, developmental psychology • Genetics (mathematical optimization,
and biology) • Lifestyle habits (physical activity operational research,
and exercise, cardio-metabolics, bioinformatics)
• Extremes of life (health, adaptation
to school, adapted environments) nutrition, hygiene and oral health) • Statistics (biostatistics, social
• Host-environment links statistics)
7. Social and political organization (toxicology, built environment, • Digital and information sciences
immunology-Infection- • High-throughput approaches
• Family and communities (new
Inflammation) (genomics, proteomics,
family models in health care)
• Oncology metabolomics)
• Demographic change (migratory
flows, Indigenous communities, • Chronic illnesses • Recognition (imagery/image,
intergenerationality) • Quality of life language, movement, data
visualization)
• Society and living together
(organizational communication, 11. Collective systems
14. Therapeutic innovation
labour market, regulation, security, • Political systems (globalization
transportation and mobility, social and internationalism, individual and • Chemistry of health and medicinal
inclusion, social justice and vulnerable collective rights, diversity and chemistry
individuals, consultation and public social inequalities, demographic • Nanomedicine
debate, public space, transformation change, governance and • Immunotherapy and cell therapy
of cities, new economic models, communities)
microcredit) • Rehabilitation
• Health systems (international health,
• International relations (mobility and • Personalized and precision
health-care system, Indigenous
international trade, globalization medicine
health, rights and legislation,
and circulation of legal models) organization of work, public health) • e-health (e-health, oral e-health,
game therapy)
• Education systems (education
8. Biodiversity
policy, measures and assessments,
• The food industry and animal health
15. Innovative systems
diversity and inequality, learning
(animal welfare, zoonoses, urban places) • Information technologies in
agriculture) teaching
• Fabricating nature 12. Environment and sustainable • Learning health systems
• Plant biodiversity
development
• Transformation of systems (health
• Population health • Environment (water, eco-toxicology, care, education, politics, law)
energy, climate change) • Human interactions in a digital
9. Ethics and politics • Sustainable development (green world (virtual reality, distance
chemistry, electrification, land collaboration, video games, digital
• Ethics, equity and fundamental rights
use planning and the landscape, tools and conservation, security)
• Law and emerging technologies - memory and heritage, sustainable
cyberjustice living environments, energy, 16. New materials
• Cybercrime, cybersecurity logistics, transportation,
• Nanotechnology
• Legislation and public policy sustainable services and products,
reconstruction, circular economy, • Innovative materials
• Privacy, confidentiality
governance, corporate social • Tissues and membranes
• Social responsibility and justice responsibility) • Innovative use of materials
• Governance and regulation
• Socially responsible development of
artificial intelligence
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Discovery, Creation and Innovation
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