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Enriching Student Experience

Rome Program Endowment - $5 Million

Waterloo is the only school of architecture in Canada that maintains a permanent international location: a studio in Rome’s historic Trastevere district. 

Almost all undergraduate and many graduate students spend at least one term at the Rome Studio, immersing themselves in a radically different, infinitely rich architectural environment.  The program mounts annual exhibitions of student work, and attracts large numbers of Italian and international students, architects, artists, and academics.

Endowed funding for this program will secure this important opportunity for generations of architecture students to come. 


CBET Challenge - $0.5 Million

The CBET Challenge is an annual invitational business creation competition hosted by the Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (CBET) at the University of Waterloo. The challenge is international in scope with the objective of showcasing real ventures created through the activities of CBET’s partner institutions.

The CBET Challenge attracts participants across all business sectors and all academic disciplines. The focus, however, is on technological innovation. Each year participants are challenged to submit new venture creations in themes such as Bioscience, Ecotechnology, Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, and Media, Arts and Digital Technology.  The CBET Challenge is open to all CBET partner initiatives from various academic projects, enterprise coop ventures and partner institutions.

The CBET Challenge is designed with innovators and entrepreneurs in mind; it will showcase ventures that are on the path to commercial success and is the catalyst to taking emerging businesses to the next level.  Participants in the CBET Challenge have a unique opportunity to interact with high-calibre competitors, from both Canadian and international universities and colleges, providing an outstanding networking opportunity.

Winning the competition will be directly related to how far teams have managed to commercialize their venture. Simply writing a business plan is not sufficient, and CBET reserves the right to not declare a “winner” if minimum competition requirements are not met.

A program endowment of $500,000 will assist CBET to build the infrastructure required to create a competition of international standing. The vision is to provide avenues to the significant, real funding for ventures with outstanding potential.