BECOME A MEMBER
The strength of CentrEau lies in its members!
Who are the members of CentrEau?
CentrEau brings together researchers, students, as well as technical and research staff, all working on the management and governance of inland water. The members come from universities, CEGEPs and organizations in the field.
Why become a member?
Visit the Member Services section for more details on the benefits of being a CentrEau member.
We gain from knowing each other:
Access knowledge and people who can enrich your work by participating in networking activities orchestrated by CentrEau (preferential rates for members), by contacting the person responsible for knowledge brokering, or by consulting the members directory. By these same means, also allow the water community to find you!
Benefit from easy access to the research infrastructures of other members of the group.
To be recognized :
Make your most recent achievement, your next conference or your recruitment needs known, among others, through the group's communication channels.
See your ongoing research efforts recognized by the CentrEau community, members and research users, during a recognition ceremony at the CentrEau Annual Meeting.
Be supported:
Take advantage of CentrEau’s financing programs to advance your work.
Obtain support from the team to deploy various activities that inspire you: coordination of a joint grant application between members, knowledge transfer activity or to consolidate links between members, training, etc.
Contribute beyond your research:
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Join one of CentrEau's committees to advance its mission and influence the way the group contributes to current issues related to water.
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Take part in the CentrEau/IWA-YWP mentoring program as a mentor to inspire and advise the next generation, or as a mentee to guide and accelerate your professional development.
How to become a member?
For researchers
A regular status member is a researcher contributing significantly to the implementation of the scientific programming or to the material infrastructure of the strategic cluster. A person from a member institution must have been a member with collaborating status for at least one year to obtain regular status. Any other person must, to become a regular member, have been a collaborating member for at least 3 years.
A member with collaborative status is a researcher contributing on an ad hoc or occasional basis to the implementation of the scientific programming or to the material infrastructure of the strategic cluster.
Consult the Centre's statutes for more details on the types of members. You will also find in these statutes the content of the membership application to be submitted to your institutional representative (if applicable) and to the general management of the group ( direction@centreau.org ).
For students, technical and research staff
The status of student member is granted to a person who is enrolled in at an undergraduate, master’s or doctoral level or who is doing a postdoctoral fellowship in one of the member establishments, or who is registered at the college level and affiliated with a Centre for the Transfer of Technology and Innovative Social Practices (CCTT). They must work on a research project that is part of the group's scientific programming and must be directed or co-directed by a regular or collaborating researcher member.
The status of employee member is granted to a person from a member establishment, supervised by a regular researcher member of the group, with at least an undergraduate degree and whose activities are part of the scientific programming of the group.
Consult the group's statutes for more details on the types of members.
To become a member, please complete the form below.