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www.insideHALTON.com · OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, May 11, 2012 · 8 By Dominik Kurek OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF A boost for innovation at Sheridan College Tuesday (May 8). More than $36 million is being provided to 35 colleges across the nation, which are partnering with businesses to conduct research projects in the areas of information and communications technologies, environmental technologies, natural resources and energy. The funding comes from the College and Community (CCI) Program and will support 60 research projects over a period of five years. This includes two new programs: the three recipients of the College-University Idea to Innovation Grants, and 14 new industrial research chairs for colleges. "One of these new industrial research chairs will be shared by Sheridan College researchers, Dr. Ed Sykes and Dr. Khaled Mahmud, who will hold the NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) industrial chair for colleges in mobile computing," Goodyear said. The $1.1 million in funding will be spread out over five years to support a research project focused on improving context-aware mobile computing and Cloud-integrated mobile computing, Goodyear said. Hoping to keep Canada as one of the global leaders in innovation, the federal government is providing a financial boost to colleges for research projects. Among the 35 community colleges and CÉGEPs (Québec colleges), Sheridan College is getting a boost of $1.1 for research in mobile computing. "Certainly, we can all agree that ideas in today's classrooms and laboratories can help form the basis of tomorrow's successful companies, and as a result a more prosperous nation for all of us," said Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology, speaking to a crowd at the Polytechnics Canada annual conference at Oakville's Sheridan College earlier this week. "That's exactly why we must and will continue to work together with you to find ways to nurture these ideas." Goodyear made the announcement about the federal funding to colleges at the conclusion of the conference, which took place Municipality of Halton www.halton.ca NOTICE OF PESTICIDE USE licensed applicator contracted by the Region. The research is also being supported by industrial partners. They are Research in Motion Ltd., Cisco Systems Canada, TELUS Corporation and Xtreme Labs Inc. Goodyear called the partnership between the colleges and these Gary Goodyear technology giants a success story for Canada. The chair -- in Sheridan's case two chairs -- will focus on delivering innovative mobile computing solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises throughout Ontario. The NSERC is a federal agency that supports approximately 30,000 post-secondary students and post-doctoral fellows in their advanced studies. It promotes discovery by funding more than 12,000 professors every year and fosters innovation by encouraging about 2,000 Canadian companies to participate and invest in post-secondary research projects. The federal government has invested a total of $160 million for nearly 250 projects since 2009 through its CCI program. The funding is granted to individual research projects after a peerreviewed competition. "These projects respond directly to the needs of the business sector through your advice and they are creating opportunities not just for you as institutions but also for apprenticeship students, technologists, technicians and so on," Goodyear told the gathering. He added the federally-funded programs are designed to contribute to innovation and to create economic opportunities for businesses, which will benefit current students and ultimately, the nation as a whole. "We are promoting business innovation through this budget so it will in fact lead to higherquality, high-value jobs and support for highgrowth companies, research collaborations between academia and the private sector, applied research, procurement opportunities and risk financing just to name a few on the overarching theme of improving our nation's innovative capabilities," Goodyear said. "We know that increasing business investment in R&D is crucial to our long-term competitiveness as a nation. So we are focused on ways to make it easier for businesses to innovate... one of the best ways to do so is to strengthen and continue to strengthen the limbs between publicfunded research and the private sector." In 2009, Sheridan College made a strategic decision to focus on mobile computing as the foundation of applied computing. 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