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annual report 2013 • 2014 i Université de moncton
International mobility day
International mobility day was held on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at
the Moncton campus. This was an opportunity for many students to obtain
information on the universities partnering with the Université de Moncton,
as well as to meet students from partnering universities and local students
who have studied abroad.
Symposium on language rights in Great Britain
and Ireland
In October 2013, the International Observatory on Language Rights
organized a symposium entitled Language Rights in Great Britain
and Ireland: the Irish, Scottish, and Wales’ experiences. Guests at the
symposium were Colin Williams, Cardiff University, Wales;
Peadar Ó Flatharta, Dublin City University, Ireland; Robert Dunbar,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland. The symposium highlighted the
particular language circumstances in Great Britain and the Republic of
Ireland, which are not as homogeneous as one might think. It was an
opportunity to show Canadians that there are countries other than Canada
where a language has a minority status in relation to English.
First cohort of Brazilian students
The university has welcomed its first cohort of five students from Brazil.
This is an initiative of the Science without Borders program, mainly funded
by the Government of Brazil. In the summer of 2013, these students
participated in the extended services Explore immersion program.
They met with professors from the Shippagan campus coastal zones
management program.
Economic information Observatory
A project to establish an Economic Information Observatory has been
initiated by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, the French
Chamber of Commerce in Canada – Atlantic Network, the Saint-Pierre
and Miquelon Chamber of Agriculture, Commerce, Industry, Arts and
Crafts and PROVIS, the Shippagan campus observatory for long-term
planning and information and scientific monitoring. This initiative is part
of the regional cooperation between the Atlantic Canada Opportunities
Agency and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.
International conference on the different
varieties of French used in Canada
In June 2014, the university hosted the 5
th
edition of Les français d’ici,
an international conference on the different varieties of French used
in Canada. Organized by the university’s research centre for applied
linguistics and the project entitled “Le français à la mesure d’un
continent : un patrimoine en partage” (France Martineau, director), the
conference received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council’s Major Collaborative Research Initiatives. Lecturers
were Michel Francard (Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique),
Alexandra Jaffe (California State University, Long Beach, California,
United States) and Marie-Ève Perrot (Université d’Orléans, France).
