Newsletter - May 2024

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A great success for this first conference!

On April 29, Raquel Fonseca (ESG UQAM, CREEi, CIREQ & CIRANO) and Markus Poschke (McGill University, CIREQ & CIRANO), in collaboration with CIRANO, CIREQ, the Research Chair in Intergenerational Economics and the Fonds de recherche Société et Culture (FRQSC), organized the First Conference on New Research and Policy Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty.

The event highlighted one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Nine presentations and a round table covered a wide range of topics related to inequality and poverty.

Doctoral and post-doctoral students were also able to present posters of their research work and exchange views with the experts in the field!

CIRANO NEWS


CIRANO partner of the 41st edition of the Jean-Yves-Rivard symposium
	CIRANO is a partner of the 41st edition of the Jean-Yves-Rivard symposium on the theme "Repenser la panification, la gestion et le développement de la main-d'œuvre en santé." Several CIRANO researchers will be present, including Roxane Borgès Da Silva and Carl-Ardy Dubois, CIRANO principal researchers. The event will take place on May 9 at the CHUM research center's amphitheatre. Read more

CIRANO's participation at CRAAQ's "Perspectives agroalimentaires
	CIRANO was present at the 34th edition of "Perspectives agroalimentaires", held at the Drummondville Centrexpo on April 23, 2024. The event, organized by the Centre de référence en agriculture et agroalimentaire du Québec (CRAAQ), attracted over 700 participants, both online and in person. Read more

The 2023-2024 season of CIREQ-CIRANO workshops was a great success
	The CIREQ-CIRANO Interdisciplinary Day on Geoengineering was the closing event of the 2023-2024 season of CIREQ-CIRANO workshops. The season was a great success, with over a hundred participants. Read more

Femmes en économie: An exceptionnal 3rd edition
	The 3rd edition of the “Les Femmes en économie” event was a real success thanks to the remarkable work of organizers Maripier Isabelle and Catherine Michaud-Leclerc and their team. About 30 people participated. Read more

OUTREACH


Marcelin Joanis appointed co-director of the Michael D. Penner Institute
	Congratulations to Marcelin Joanis on his appointment as co-director of the Michael D. Penner Institute on ESG issues. Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin has been appointed member of the Board of Directors. Read more

Thierry Warin at the G7 Transport Academic workshop
	Thierry Warin (HEC Montréal, CIRANO) took part in the "G7 Transport Academic workshop" at the G7 Italia 2024 event, representing Canada with Christian Dea, Transport Canada's Chief Economist. Read more

UPCOMING EVENTS

Webinaire Bourstad : Les choix de carrière pour les diplômés dans l’industrie des services financiers

Monday, May 6, 2024

In this webinar, expert Benoit Desgroseillers, Vice-President of Talent Development at Finance Montréal, and other representatives of the Bourstad project sponsors will present the different careers that the financial services industry offers to graduates of the three levels of education, and the pathways that lead to them.

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External activity - Congrès annuel de l'Association des économistes québécois

Thursday, May 9, 2024

CIRANO will be well represented at the Congrès annuel de l'Association des économistes québécois which will be held at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal on May 9 and 10. Among the activities planned in the program, the workshop led by Genevieve Dufour (Économie du Québec: Mythe ou réalité) and the workshop Réfléchir le long terme: rôle et outils de l’économiste which will include Pierre-Carl Michaud among its panelists, will take place on May 9. On May 10, Marie Connolly, Joanne Castonguay and Miville Tremblay are the panelists for the workshop L’éducation et la santé: deux milliers pour tout projet de société.

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External Activity: 63th Annual Meeting of the Société canadienne de science économique (SCSE)

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

CIRANO is a partner of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Société canadienne de science économique (SCSE) which will be held from May 15 to 17, 2024 at HEC Montréal's Hélène Desmarais Building, 501 de la Gauchetière West Street. Each year, this congress brings together specialists from all over the French-speaking world. This year's edition will feature a number of events highlighting the work of CIRANO researchers, including tributes to Marcel Boyer, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Université de Montréal, and Bernard Fortin, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at Université Laval, as well as a plenary session moderated by Charles Bellemare, Professor in the Department of Economics at Université Laval and CIRANO Fellow.

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CIRANO Conference at 91st Annual Congress of the Association Francophone pour le Savoir (ACFAS)

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

As part of the 91st Acfas Congress at the University of Ottawa from May 13 to 17, 2024, CIRANO is organizing a conference on the Valorization and Sharing of Data to Serve Value Chains in the Saint-Laurent Trade Corridor – Big lakes. Chaired by Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin (Polytechnique Montréal), the conference will bring together Patrick Leblond (University of Ottawa), Julien Martin (UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal), Dalibor Stevanovic (UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal), Thierry Warin (HEC Montréal), Jeremy Schneider (CIRANO), Valérie Bélanger (HEC Montréal) and Aïchata Souleymane Koné (CIRANO). At the end of the Conference, a happy hour will be held to present the activities of the new CIRANO Cluster in data science for trade and intermodal transport to a panel of representatives from Transport Canada, Global Affairs Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and Statistics Canada.

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Special 30th anniversary session at Annual Canadian Economics Association Meetings

Thursday, May 30, 2024

The 58th Annual Canadian Economics Association Meetings is organized by the Department of Economics at Toronto Metropolitan University from May 30 to June 1, 2024. John W. Galbraith, Professor at McGill University and CIRANO Researcher and Fellow is the president of the program. This year, a special session is organized to mark the 30th anniversary of CIRANO.

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