RESEARCH CENTRE AT UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL
Centre for Economics Research
on the Environment, Agri-food,
Transportation, and Energy (CREATE)
CREATE researchers develop tools to foster sustainable development. From agricultural
waste to biofuels, natural gas, transportation, and energy efficiency, the solutions to
today’s problems will come through multidisciplinary, cross-sector cooperation.
MISSION
CENTRE DESCRIPTION
CREATE focuses on three main research areas: agri-food, energy and the environment, and transportation.
These areas reflect CREATE’s origins in the 2011 merger of three separate research centres: the Centre for Research
in Agri-food Economics (CRÉA), the Centre for Research on the Economics of Energy Efficiency, the Environment,
and Natural Resources (GREEN), and the Centre for Data and Analysis in Transportation (CDAT).
CREATE operates within the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences and the Faculty of Social Sciences.
18 research
fellows
14 associate
researchers
research
professionals
CREATE contributes to the advancement
of theoretical and empirical knowledge
in the economics of the environment,
natural resources, energy, agri-food,
and transportation. CREATE researchers
develop novel methodologies and
approaches tailored to their field
of expertise. Their mission includes:
>Conducting fundamental research
>Training students
>Contributing to public debate on
economic policy by making science
accessible
students
STATISTICS AT 1 JUNE 2013
CREATE director: Patrick González, Faculty of Social Sciences
ADVANTAGES
CREATE offers a stimulating research environment for
students interested in public policy in the fields of agriculture, transportation, natural resources, and energy—all
with a strong focus on combining economic development
with environmental protection.
Every graduate student working under a CREATE-affiliated
researcher is a member of the centre. Research projects
are focused and often involve no more than one or two
students working with one or two professors. Students
have the opportunity to apply methodologies learned
in the classroom, such as economic formalization and
econometrics, to concrete problems of current interest
to researchers throughout Québec and Canada.
Université Laval in the heart of Québec City
is one of Canada’s top research universities,
with nearly 230 graduate programs.
Every year CREATE organizes some ten seminars. Researchers from all over Canada and the world come to
Laval to share their latest discoveries. CREATE is also
involved in several international research networks.
Students ready to push further will find CREATE a good
step in the path toward a career with an international
organization. Funding is available for travel to present
research findings at conferences.
A global leader in numerous cutting-edge
disciplines, Université Laval educates
tomorrow’s leaders and prepares them to
face current and future challenges in every
field of knowledge.
Learn more about
Université Laval programs at
ulaval.ca/futurestudents
Working in the faculties of Social Sciences and Agriculture
and Food Sciences gives CREATE members the opportunity
to collaborate with students from many different parts of
the world, in an atmosphere of international camaraderie
conducive to building lasting relationships.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
Every year, the Centre awards the prestigious CREATE-Gaz-Métro scholarship to a master’s
student in the Department of Economics, to fund a research project and two internships.
This program was recently renewed after twenty successful years.
In pursuing the work of the three research centres that preceded it, CREATE took part in
an event commemorating the founding of GREEN at the 53 annual Société canadienne
de science économique (SCSE) conference. And in fall 2011 CREATE also hosted the 21st
annual meeting of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Study Group.
Center for Economics Research
on the Environment, Agri-food,
Transportation, and Energy (CREATE)
Université Laval
Pavillon J.-A.-DeSève,
1025, avenue des Sciences-Humaines
Suite 2242
et Pavillon Paul-Comtois
2425, rue de l’Agriculture
Suite 4417
Québec City (Québec) G1V 0A6
CANADA
100 %
418 656-2096
Fax: 418 656-7412
[email protected]
[email protected]
(DC2014-01)
In partnership with the Interuniversity Center on Risk, Economic Policies and Employment
(CIRPÉE) and Association des économistes québécois, CREATE organizes an annual Applied
Economics Day where master’s students present their work to professional economists
from the public and private sectors. 2013 year marked the tenth anniversary of this
popular event.