Institut d'etudes internationales de Montréal

The steering committee thanks the IEIM for the coffee breaks.

The Institut d'études internationales de Montréal (IEIM) was created in 2002 to support, strengthen and deepen the research, training and knowledge mobilization initiatives of research centres and chairs belonging to UQAM's Faculty of Political Science and Law involved in the field of international studies. Since then, its action has expanded to other centres and research chairs attached to all UQAM Faculties - Faculty of Human Sciences, Faculty of Education Sciences, Faculty of Communication, Faculty of Arts, School of Management Sciences (ESG). This extension and openness has had an important impact on its way of considering and putting into practice the international dimension of its activities. In addition, the IEIM not only promotes the convergence of UQAM's stakeholders, it also creates links with centres and chairs located in other universities, in addition to developing collaborations with public and private organizations in Quebec and abroad.

In fact, the IEIM has a dual mission: first, to support and strengthen the integration of an open internationalization into all the activities of its constituents and partners and, second, to facilitate the extension and redeployment of their activities on the Montreal and international scenes.

This dual mission is spread over several levels. Internally, the Institute's primary role is to support the activities of its constituents and to promote synergies between them in the pursuit of their own activities, while seeking the collaboration of other centres and research chairs at UQAM. To this end, the Institute also plays an active role in the extension and deepening of internationalization activities at all levels within the university.

At the external level, the Institute's role is to increase its own presence and that of its constituents on the Montreal and Quebec scenes with organizations, associations and the business community, through the organization of conferences, summer schools, exchanges, partnerships and research projects.

In international and international terms, the role of the Institute is to encourage and facilitate the transnationalization of research, training and knowledge mobilization practices through the multiplication of exchanges between research teams and researchers.

At present, the Institute brings together nineteen chairs and research centres whose activities are carried out in one or other of the following four research axes: (i) globalization and governance; (ii) security and diplomacy; (iii) identity, citizenship and diversity; and, finally, (iv) international law and human rights.