Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Region : Quebec

City : Rouyn-Noranda

Web site : www.uqat.ca

The Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) is a francophone university affiliated with the Université du Québec network. It has three campuses across Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Rouyn-Noranda, Val-d'Or and Amos) as well as ten regional centers in the Nord-du-Québec and some other Quebec cities.

Education Programs

UQAT offers more than 100 programs of study covering the three cycles of study (bachelor's, master's and doctoral) in various fields such as:

• Creation and new media
• Human and Social Development
• Education
• Management
• Health
• Applied Sciences (School of Engineering).

With its 10 research chairs and 11 research units, UQAT is the first in Canada for the volume of research per graduate student. A creative research force in promising sectors:

• Food & Beverage
• Underground communications
• Small Community Development
• Mining Entrepreneurship
• Aboriginal Forestry
• Hydrogeology
• Restoration of Abandoned Mining Sites
• Forestry and intensive farming
• Thermoplastic and wood processing.

Research chairs

• NSERC-Polytechnique-UQAT Chair in Environmental and Mining Discharge Management
• International Research Chair in Management and Stabilization of Mining and Industrial Releases
• Desjardins Small Business Development Chair
• UQAT-UQAM Mining Entrepreneurship Chair
• NSERC-UQAT-UQAM Industrial Chair in Sustainable Forest Management
• Canada Research Chair in Forest Ecology and Sustainable Forest Management
• Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Forestry
• Canada Research Chair in the Restoration of Abandoned Mining Sites
• Canada Research Chair in Wood Valorization, Characterization and Processing
• Canada Research Chair in Passive Treatment of Contaminated Mineral Waters

Research Units

• Center for Research on Territorial Development (CRDT)
• Professional Practice Research and Analysis Team (ERAPP)
• Groundwater Research Group (GRES)
• Aboriginal Training and Development Unit (UFDPA)
• Cognitive Education Research Unit (CETU)
• Electromechanical Research Unit (UREM)
• Agri-Food Research and Development Unit (URDAAT)
• Abitibi-Témiscamingue Forestry Research and Development Unit (URDFAT)
• Mineral Technology Research and Service Unit (URSTM)
• Human Interaction Research Unit (URIH)
• Inuit and Inuit Education, Training and Development Unit (URFDEMIA)

Sources : Wikipedia, www.uqat.ca