What's new for La Synthèse?
Trainings, workshops, conferences and awards

Your newspaper La Synthèse invites you to their stands, as part of the INRS back-to-school activities !

INRS welcomes students with a series of activities during the academic year. For those who are interested, an information stand for the newspaper La Synthèse will be present in the four INRS university centers ( ETE, UCS, AFSB, EMT) .

This is an ideal opportunity for newcomers to learn about various aspects of university life and familiarize themselves with the available resources. Feel free to visit our booths to gain valuable information and begin your university journey informed and prepared with the popular science content offered by our journal.

• SUMMER (Quebec): Thursday, August 29 at 3 p.m.

• UCS (Montreal): Thursday, August 29, 9 a.m.

• AFSB (Laval): Wednesday, September 18, 3 p.m.

• EMT (Varennes): Wednesday, September 25, 3 p.m.

Do you know the Point-Science blog? It is an initiative whose vocation is to be a platform for scientific discussion. It centralizes information related to human health and tomorrow's therapeutic challenges of while facilitating exchanges between young researchers and graduate students! Popular science for biology enthusiasts! The Journal La Synthèse and the Point-Science blog are pleased to announce this new collaboration. You will see our popular science articles on the Point-Science blog, and we will share interesting content from the latter! Stay tuned! https://www.point-science.com

The Journal La Synthèse received a grant from the ASEQ Foundation. They encourage student initiatives and they believe in our project from the start. These funds allow us to offer you various training courses, ensure the quality of our articles and allow us to better share your articles. A big thank you to the ASEQ Foundation.

We were invited for our commitment in our university environment and for the quality of our application for Forces AVENIR 2019. During the event, all the finalists, members of the juries, university representatives, partners of Forces AVENIR as well as many players in society gathered to celebrate student engagement.

We offer training that will give you new tools to be able to disseminate your knowledge and arouse the interest of your audience. This training on knowledge transfer and mobilization is offered by our colleague Mélanie Pearson from INRS-UCS. The training will take place in several stages with a typical exercise that you can reproduce at home before any presentation, theoretical training as well as concrete examples of knowledge transfer and mobilization projects.

It is on this day that a new adventure begins. The beginning of the Journal La Synthèse!

Your newspaper La Synthèse is partnering with BistroBrain to offer you an evening of popular science !

We invite you to come and discover the 4 INRS participants who will present their work in a warm and friendly atmosphere at Saint-Houblon in Côte-des-Neiges!

Each participant will give a popular presentation of no more than 12 minutes using a slide show .

(🎁 These participants will benefit from free support in popular science offered remotely by the BistroBrain team approximately 1 month before the evening. An opportunity not to be missed to perfect their presentation techniques in a friendly environment!)

• When: Thursday, February 29 at 6 p.m.

• Where: at Saint-Houblon Côte-des-neiges (5414 Av. Gatineau, Montreal, QC H3T 1X5)

The Journal La Synthèse is growing! This one having emerged in 2018 in the Armand-Frappier Health Biotechnology center of the INRS, it is now expanding this year in all the centers of the Institute. The thematic research and training centers are, in addition to the Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie center, the Eau Terre Environnement center in Quebec City, the Energy Materials Telecommunications center, and the Urbanization Culture Society center. Thus, from 2021, the research of these 4 INRS centers will be put forward!

We have organised  popularization training led by Carine Monat This conference was offered free of charge to students of the INRS Center Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie.

The 1 year anniversary of the Journal La Synthèse was a success. Congratulations to Karine Trudeau who won a one-year subscription to the Association of Scientific Communicators of Quebec. Congratulations to Fares Saidi and Mathide Poujol de Molliens for winning the best author awards (1st and 2nd prize respectively). We would also like to thank Stéphanie Thibault for the science popularization training.

From September 17 to 23, it is the week of scientific culture! Five student-researchers from the INRS-Center Armand-Frappier have prepared popular posters of a scientific subject which are exhibited in the Yves-Thériault Library in Laval. Copies of La Synthèse will also be available on site and at the Sylvain-Garneau Library in Laval. Thanks to the program  Bioscience apprentices  for the organization of the week's celebrations.

What does a good popular science text look like? What are the secrets to explaining something complicated, like a master's or thesis project, in a simple way?

The Journal La Synthèse, in collaboration with the INRS Communications Department, invites you to a hands-on workshop given by none other than Audrey-Maude Vézina, science communications advisor and social media manager at the INRS. Audrey-Maude has published numerous popular science articles and won the prestigious Fernand-Séguin scholarship in 2018. This award allowed her to complete internships as a science journalist at Science-Presse, Québec Science, La Presse, and Radio-Canada.

During this workshop, you'll discover the behind-the-scenes aspects of scientific communication. You'll analyze short popular science texts to identify their strengths and weaknesses and suggest improvements. You'll be given tips and tricks so you can write your own popular article that could be published in the journal La Synthèse.

→ Friday, March 4, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., on Zoom.
Mandatory registration:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWq7YhQu6IqtpqqwMrzTtzy5YODepL1qEpS1t6ydmIaTK9zg/viewform

The journal La Synthèse in collaboration with the Service des Études Supérieures (SAE) is pleased to invite students from all INRS centers to a training course offered by the organization Thésez-Vous on Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. at 12 noon. This conference will be followed by a writing day the next day, Friday 20 November from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. You asked us to integrate more workshops into our training courses in order to put into practice the tools you learned during the conferences. We listened to you with this editorial retreat! 

We were at the 50th of the INRS which takes place at the Manège Militaire de Québec. It is a great opportunity to present our journal to the other INRS centers.

We are happy to announce that the initiative of the popularization student journal La Synthèse has won the regional challenges of the OSEntreprendre Challenge. Our project therefore qualifies for the national final. The OSEntreprendre challenge rewards the entrepreneurial initiatives of students at both university and primary level.

The synthesis is involved in the relay for La vie de Laval. A super hero theme, we couldn't resist the temptation of the cape!