We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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UOIT signs agreement with France’s Université de Bretagne-Sud

November 7, 2013

Back row (from left): Melissa Picard, International Program Co-ordinator, FBIT; Philippe Le Masson, Professor, UBS; Michèle Raphalen, Lecturer, UBS; Stephen Rose, Associate Dean and Director of International, FBIT; Dr. Pamela Ritchie, Dean, FBIT. Front row (from left): Jean Peeters, President, UBS; Dr. Michael Owen, Vice-President Research, Innovation and International, UOIT.

The Faculty of Business and Information Technology (FBIT) at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology continues to strengthen its international ties with the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding with the Université de Bretagne-Sud (UBS) in South Brittany, France.

The signing renews the UOIT-UBS partnership that began in 2010 with bilateral exchange under the Cross-Atlantic Partnership in Network Systems and Information Management (CAMIM) project as part of the Canada-European Union Program for Co-operation in Higher Education, Training, and Youth.

“The Faculty of Business and Information Technology has an expanding international presence and offers a growing number of international opportunities for students,” said Dr. Pamela Ritchie, FBIT Dean. “Mobility under this project has been very successful and FBIT looks forward to a continued partnership with the Université de Bretagne-Sud.”

On the day of the MOU signing, UOIT and FBIT hosted Prof. Jean Peeters, UBS President, and his colleagues Prof. Philippe Le Masson and Mme. Michèle Raphalen for a day long visit at UOIT’s north Oshawa location. The guests toured UOIT’s state-of-the art research facilities including the Automotive Centre of Excellence, FBIT’s Virtual Reality Cave and the FBIT Laboratory for Games and Media Entertainment Research (GAMER Lab).

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