Dr. Peter Stoicheff, Chair, U15 Canada and President and CEO of the University of Saskatchewan quoted in the Science|Business article by David Matthews dated February 27, 2025 .
In a new Trump era, Canadians are looking for partners, and since association to the EU’s Framework Programme, applications are up.
Canada’s biggest research universities have visited Europe to try to forge joint Horizon Europe projects as the country finds itself a target of the new US president.
The research tie-up between Europe and Canada comes at a geopolitically fraught time, with the US pulling away from both of its traditional allies. Since taking office in January, president Donald Trump has threatened tariffs against the US’s northern neighbour, and even suggested he wants to annex the country.
Last month, Canada’s U15 research universities met their German counterpart group of the same name in Hannover to hash out new partnerships, just two days after Trump’s inauguration.
Although the get-together was long in the planning, “there are a lot of things that are going on globally now that make this astonishingly appropriate timing,” said Peter Stoicheff, president of the University of Saskatchewan and the U15’s chair….
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