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Partnering for a Better Future for Ontario's Regional Economies
A globally competitive Ontario is built on the strength of its regions. This booklet features some of the ways Ontario’s universities are helping to drive regional economic development, and create an environment where businesses, both large and small, can thrive.
Growth, Talent, Innovation in an Evolving Economy
Ontario’s universities are partnering with government and industry to develop the talented workforce and drive the ground-breaking innovation the province needs to compete, both regionally and globally. Read our latest blog post to learn about how we are working together to build a more prosperous Ontario.
Making Ontario Open for Business through Innovation
By strengthening the roles of business, universities and government in the research and innovation ecosystem, the province can further drive discovery, invention and commercialization to create a regional and globally competitive economy.
Partnering to Drive Ontario’s Agriculture Sector
Find out how Ontario’s universities are partnering with agri-businesses and industry to ensure the agriculture sector has the skilled workforce it needs, as well as the new technologies required to change the future of food production and distribution and help feed communities across the province, and around the world.
Preparing for a rapidly changing economy through student-community partnerships
Across the province, Ontario university students are engaging with their communities and driving social and economic development in order to help create a better future for Ontario. Find out how partnerships between universities and communities are vital in ensuring both our students and province are better prepared for a rapidly changing future, ultimately creating a dynamic Ontario.
Retooling Ontario for Jobs and Growth through Advanced Manufacturing
When Bruce Power invited students from various Ontario universities to take part in a hackathon, the company didn’t anticipate such a positive outcome. James Scongack, Bruce Power’s Executive Vice-President, related the story of how students helped solve a specific problem the plant was facing within 24 hours during a recent panel discussion on Advanced Manufacturing: Building Ontario through Talent and Innovation, hosted by Ontario’s Universities at Queen’s Park.
Partnering for a Better Future for Advanced Manufacturing
Advanced manufacturing – the development of innovative technologies to create new products, enhance processes and establish more efficient ways of working – needs bold, new and transformative ideas. Ontario’s universities are building on the province’s strong manufacturing base and clusters of technology companies, while ensuring students have the skills, knowledge and experience they need to thrive in Ontario’s ever-evolving manufacturing sector.
Propel Initiative
Propel Initiative
Bringing on skilled university students is a great way to access some of Ontario’s top student talent. Propel Initiative connects small-medium sized enterprises and non-profits with tools and resources to help them access and manage our province’s best and brightest students to fit their needs.
Ontario’s universities are actively working with their
partners on the issues that matter most to Ontarians.

We are partnering to grow the economy, to equip graduates with skills and experience for the jobs of the future, to improve health care so that Ontarians can lead longer and healthier lives, and to support life-changing ideas and discoveries through research and innovation.

Better Future
Better Future
Better Future
Making an Impact
Powering the new economy through AI
Artificial intelligence is seen as an engine for productivity and economic growth, which is why University of Toronto is committed to the knowledge, creation and use of AI.
News & Updates
December 13, 2019
Driving regional economic development through talent and innovation
November 21, 2019
Growth, Talent, Innovation in an Evolving Economy
Issues Ontarians'
Care About
We spent a year listening to what Ontarians had to say about their hopes, concerns, ideas and aspirations for the future. Through partnering with others, Ontario's universities are working together to attain those hopes, alleviate those concerns, and make those ideas a reality. Learn about our commitments to creating a better Ontario.
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Jobs and Skills
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The Economy
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Research and
Innovation
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Health Care
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Mental Health
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Building Strong
Communities
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Access
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The Environment
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Diversity
How We're Partnering for
a Better Future for Ontario
Ontario's universities are actively working with partners to ensure our students thrive, our communities are vibrant and our province remains dynamic.
Partnering to help Ontario
Ontarians Talk About
Their Future
2019 Pre-Budget Submission to the Ontario Government

This pre-budget submission details how government and universities can partner to tackle the priorities that matter most to the people of Ontario, like creating jobs, continuing to find efficiencies and cost savings and helping deliver better health care so we can build a more prosperous future for our students, communities and the province.

Read the Submission
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