MONTRÉAL, May 12, 2016 /CNW
Telbec/ - Quebecor is pleased to award the Pierre Péladeau
Bursaries for the 18th consecutive year to support the
next generation of Québec entrepreneurs. This year, the Corporation
has again distributed $100,000 to
budding businesspeople. Through this award, Quebecor provides the
recipients with significant financial assistance and lends their
future businesses greater credibility.
"Once again, I have been overwhelmed by our young entrepreneurs'
exceptional spirit of initiative and creativity," said Pierre Dion, President and CEO of Quebecor. "The
winning projects selected by our jury are all distinguished by
their innovative vision. Not only are the recipients promising
business ventures but their missions entail positive and important
social and environmental impacts."
Recipients of 2016 Pierre Péladeau Bursaries
Making drinking water with wave
energy
Dragan
Tutic and Renaud Lafortune of
Université de Sherbrooke have been
awarded the First Pierre Péladeau Bursary, worth $50,000, to help them build Oneka
Technologies. They have developed autonomous desalination
units providing fresh water using only waves as an energy
source.
Instant preliminary diagnosis of medical
imaging
Mitchel Benovoy of
École Polytechnique de Montréal and Pascal
Labrecque of Université Laval have been awarded the Second Pierre
Péladeau Bursary, worth $30,000, to
start up Corstem inc. Their goal is to develop and
bring to market cutting-edge technologies to enable health services
to reduce the human factor in analyzing cardiovascular pathologies
and accelerate and refine the diagnostic process.
Bringing renewable energy to the masses
Marc-Antoine Bonin of McGill University
and Antony Diaz of Collège
Jean-de-Brébeuf have been awarded the Third Pierre Péladeau
Bursary, worth $20,000, to develop
their business uvolt. They have invented a
bracelet that uses renewable energy (kinetic, solar and thermal) to
charge mobile phones anywhere.
The Pierre Péladeau Bursaries, named in honour of the formidable
vision and entrepreneurial spirit of Quebecor's founder, were
created to help students start up a business. Students at all
Québec universities are eligible. Every year, the three best
projects are selected by an independent jury. Since their inception
18 years ago, the Pierre Péladeau Bursaries have distributed a
total of $1.6 million to more than 60
young entrepreneurs.
The members of the jury for the 2016 Pierre Péladeau Bursaries
were:
- Pierre Laurin, Chairman of the
Pierre Péladeau Bursaries jury, Corporate Director, former Director
of HEC and Chairman of the Board of Atrium Innovations
- Manon Brouillette, President and
CEO, Videotron
- Sylvie Lalande, Corporate
Director, including of Quebecor Inc.
- Adam Lapointe, CEO,
Soccrent
- Claire Léger, Director, St-Hubert Group Inc.
- Marc Leroux, President, Priorat
Capital Inc.
- Geneviève Marcon, President, GM Développement
- Érik Péladeau, President and CEO, Groupe Lelys
About Quebecor
Quebecor, a Canadian leader in
telecommunications, entertainment, news media and culture, is one
of the best-performing integrated communications companies in the
industry. Driven by their determination to deliver the best
possible customer experience, all of Quebecor's subsidiaries and
brands are differentiated by their high-quality, multiplatform,
convergent products and services.
Quebecor (TSX: QBR.A, QBR.B) is headquartered in Québec. It
holds an 81.07% interest in Quebecor Media, which employs close to
11,000 people in Canada.
A family business founded in 1950, Quebecor is strongly
committed to the community. Every year, it actively supports people
working with more than 400 organizations in the vital fields of
culture, health, education, the environment and
entrepreneurship.
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SOURCE Quebecor