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Springboard Atlantic is a network with a mandate to support the commercialization of research in Atlantic Canada. We provide resources to Atlantic Canadian universities and colleges to encourage the transfer of knowledge and technology to the region's private sector. As of April 1, 2008, our members are fourteen of the universities in Atlantic Canada plus the five provincial community colleges.

We work to connect publicly funded research and educational organization members with industry experts through a range of programs and services.

We also connect skilled professionals in academia and industry to create new collaborations and move Canadian expertise and innovations from the labs and minds of researchers to final products in the marketplace.

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January 25: Lunch and Learn Session:

"Getting Serious About Serious Gaming"

Who: Holland College & Springboard with Keynote Address by Tim Workman, Adamas Learning Technologies

What: Lunch & Learn Session

Where: Holland College Center for Applied Science and Technology, Room 318 Prince of Wales Campus, Lower Kent St., Charlottetown, PEI

When:10:30am - 1:30pm ATL January 25, 2012

Please click here for the full invitation & here for the agenda.

Please Join us in welcoming our new Executive Director Chris Mathis!

Chris has dedicated his engineering career to fostering the global commercialization of technology from Atlantic Canada.

His entrepreneurial “teeth-cutting” came from founding and operating Mathis Instruments Ltd. to commercialize his wife Nancy’s Ph.D. research at UNB. The resulting products and company were awarded numerous distinctions including Profits Magazines’ Top 50, BDC’s Young Entrepreneurs of the Year (NB, 1997) and received an International R&D 100 Award (1999). Nancy as inventor of the technology was later recognized with a Manning Innovation Award, the highest innovation award distinction in Canada.

The technical and entrepreneurial experience combined with the last 4 years at UNB’s Office of Research Services to commercialize technologies and drive industry engagement, has together provided Chris with a broad spectrum of education and firsthand experience in supporting and developing commercial innovations.

The new NSERC Strategy for Partnerships and Innovation has recently been launched and NSERC Atlantic would like to receive proposals as soon as possible.

If you have ideas in that regard, Springboard would like to collaborate on how to best use these funds, and we are open to ideas and partnerships.

Please feel free to contact us for assistance with NSERC funding. Linked application forms for three different NSERC programs that relate to the new Strategy:

1) Interaction Grants (IG) can be used to facilitate meetings between university faculty and companies interested in R&D collaboration (see http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/RPP-PP/Interaction-Interaction_eng.asp);

2) Engage Grants (EG) can be used to initiate new R&D collaborations between university faculty and companies (see http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/RPP-PP/Engage-Engagement_eng.asp); and

3) NSERC-Atlantic Regional Opportunities Fund (ROF) can be used to support events and activities (e.g. small workshops) that encourage the development of R&D collaborations between companies and faculty in Atlantic universities For more information contact the NSERC Atlantic Office (506-854-8154/ nserc-atlantic@nserc-crsng.gc.ca).

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