The Honourable Rachel Bendayan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Outremont, Caroline Desrochers, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Infrastructure, as well as Martine Biron, Minister of Higher Education and Minister responsible for the Status of Women and Eric Girard, Minister of Government Digital Transformation, Public Works and Procurement, Minister of Finance and Minister responsible for Infrastructure, announced today a total provincial and federal government contribution of more than $200 million to the Université de Montréal (UdeM). The announcement was made in the presence of Daniel Jutras, Rector of the Université de Montréal, and Jacques Courtois, President of the Courtois Foundation. This investment follows on the heels of the Canada-Quebec agreement and the Build Communities Strong Fund, which supports major infrastructure projects and the construction of university facilities. This investment will enable the university to move forward with Phase II of its Science Complex.
Specifically, this government funding, will support the construction of two buildings adjacent to the existing Science Complex facility. These new spaces will bring together, in a single location, the natural sciences (already housed in the existing building), data science and the Courtois Institute, whose personnel and activities were previously spread across multiple sites.
Phase II of the Université de Montréal Science Complex is part of a strategic initiative to position Quebec and Canada at the forefront of the discovery and design of advanced materials. The project aims to integrate the latest advances in computing and artificial intelligence with expertise in chemistry, physics and materials science to explore the fundamental and functional properties of matter.
The project is expected to accommodate nearly 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as approximately 300 staff members, professors and researchers, within the university community already established at the MIL Campus.
