About

The CSEE is an innovative vehicle to promote research and educational collaboration at the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary and the University of Lethbridge.  The ‘Canada School’ is a not-for-profit organization that draws on the diverse knowledge, resources and expertise of the three institutions to stimulate and advance research and teaching programs related to one of the most pressing issues of the modern world:  the need to provide an environmentally and economically sustainable supply of energy in the face of global concerns of increasing resource constraints and environmental change.  The primary goals of the CSEE are to promote collaboration among researchers addressing major energy and environment issues and to support research that accelerates the progress of ideas towards commercialization.  The CSEE has received a grant from Industry Canada in support for centres of excellence.  The grant is used to fund merit-based research awards to individual researchers to advance energy and environmental technologies through the Proof of Principle stage, to support collaboration among researchers through innovative web-based tools, and to support the activities of the energy and environment institutes at the three universities.