📌 Ongoing projects
“‘Fighting’ exclusion of the elderly during COVID-19 in rural and urban areas. What perspectives for social participation and active ageing?”
2020-2022, Fonds de recherche du Québec-Société et culture (Canada), Ministry of Heath and Social Services, ~ 202 700 EUR. PI
“New models of action in territorial development in the context of social and ecological transition: towards the co-construction of collective capacities allowing to improve community wellbeing.”
2018-2022, Fonds de recherche du Québec-Société et culture (Canada), ~ 220 000 EUR. CI
“Antifouling products without dioxide: A transition towards more environmental and equal professional practices in navigation and fisheries?”
2020-2023, Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR, France) et Fond de recherche du Québec, ~ 851 000 EUR, CA + MITACS, PI, ~ 4 000 EUR
Research Chair on Youth in Québec.
2019-2024, Secrétariat à la Jeunesse and Fonds de recherche du Québec, ~ 3 000 000 EUR. CI
Canada Research Chair in Social innovation and territorial development
2016-2022, Canada Research Chairs, ~ 321 000 EUR (main contribution) + 121 575 EUR (distributed on 5 years). PI
📌 Completed projects
“Living and working in a peripheral area of Canada. What pushes urban young students to migrate towards a peripheral region after university?”
2020-2021, Research Chair on Youth in Québec – Youth Secretariat of Québec and Fonds de recherche du Québec-Société et culture (Canada), ~ 4 000 EUR. PI
“Life-work balance as an attraction and retention measure for immigrant researchers in peripheral-area universities. Three cases from Québec.”
2020-2021, MITACS, (Government of Canada), PI, ~ 10 000 EUR + Centre de recherche sur le développement territorial, ~ 2 600 EUR. PI
“Youth migration and violence in Colombia. The UTOPIA project as a tool of social innovation?”
2020-2021, CRC in social innovation and territorial development, ~ 4 000 EUR. PI. Preliminary study in collaboration with the philanthropy centre of the Universidad Lasalle, Bogota, Colombia
“Young NEET and social anger: between migration and retention. A territorial perspective.”
2019-2021, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), ~ 64 000 EUR. CI
“Labour markets in the global North and South. The case of Brazil and Canada.”
2019, Foreign Affairs Canada – Leadership of the Americas, ~ 4 054 EUR + Research mobility at PUC- Rio de Janeiro with Professor Paulo Green Lima from March 1st to March 27th. PI
“New Italian migrations to Montreal.”
2018-2019, Canada Research Chair in social innovation and territorial development, ~ 5 000 EUR + Università degli Studi di Siena (UNISI) ~ 5 000 EUR. PI with F. Berti.
“A cross-reflection on social and territorial development in Québec and Nova Scotia.”
2018-2019, Secrétariat du Québec aux relations canadiennes, ~ 2 000 EUR. PI, with Roger Gervais (Canada)
“How the intimacy and sexuality of the physically handicap influence and shape new professional practices and figures? The case of healthcare professionals and sexual assistants in Switzerland and Québec.”
2019-2021, Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture, ~ 64 000 EUR. PI
“Aboriginal communities’ adaptation in Northern Shrimp harvest in a context of climate change. The role of professional and local practices”
2018-2021, RQM, – Government of Québec, ~ 101 000 EUR. PI
“Vulnerability of the Northern Shrimp population to climate and global change along Canada's East Coast: from natural resources to coastal communities. An interdisciplinary approach”
2018-2021, MITACS, ~ 96 000 EUR + OURANOS, ~ 43 000 EUR. CA
"Sustainability of the northern shrimp resource and commercial fishery in a context of climate change. What role for the professional and local community?"
2017, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), Fonds d’arrimage Desjardins / Fonds Institutionnel de Recherche
“Research program on Work-Integration Social Enterprises”
2016-2021, Employment and Social Development Canada, ~ 246 354 EUR. CI
“Life-courses and careers in the fishing industry. The case of captain-owners in Eastern Quebec”
2016-2019, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Insight Program, ~ 46 000 EUR + UQAR, Fond Institutionnel de Recherche, ~ 17 400 EUR. PI
'Sustainability of fishing companies through the lens of life trajectories and careers"
2015-2016, Université du Québec à Rimouski – Fonds d’arrimage Desjardins / Fonds Institutionnel de Recherche
“Emerging interdisciplinary research team on regional health and wellbeing”
2014-2016, Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture, Infrastructure support ~ 45 000 EUR. CI
"The life trajectories of fishermen: working, getting older and retiring. The case of fishermen-owners in the Gaspé Peninsula."
2014-2015, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), Fonds Institutionnel de Recherche
“The needs of youth aged 16 to 35 in the La Mitis regional county municipality. Staying or migrating?”
2014-2015, Regional government of the Lower Saint Lawrence, Québec (CRÉ) and COSMOSS La Mitis, ~ 39 000 EUR. PI
