The IIES is thrilled to welcome its newest member, EcotoQ in Quebec City, Canada. This new partnership agreement between the IIES and EcotoQ, formalized in December 2025, aims to build a long-term synergistic relationship that fosters collaborative research, promotes training opportunities, and enhances the international reach of work in ecotoxicology and environmental sciences.
About EcotoQ
Funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec, EcotoQ is a strategic cluster of Canadian and international researchers in ecotoxicology. It is the only academic group in Quebec dedicated exclusively to documenting the presence and fate of environmental contaminants, and to studying their effects on flora and fauna. As such, they are dedicated to facilitating access for governments, the general public, and the media to Quebec’s best expertise on various environmental issues.
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Image: EcotoQ members present at the second “Grand chantier” event, to define new strategic policy guidelines for the cluster.
With over 50 regular members from 12 universities and 1 college, upwards of 70 collaborating members and hundreds of student members, EcotoQ is a unique gathering of international subject matter experts in environmental chemistry, biology and environmental engineering. EcotoQ provides its members with key services in research collaboration, networking, infrastructure sharing, student training, data management, and knowledge dissemination in ecotoxicology.
The research conducted by EcotoQ’s members focuses on anthropogenic contaminants in air, water and soils from urban, industrial, agricultural, and pristine environments; from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of the St. Lawrence; from southern Quebec to the Arctic.
“Joining the IIES network marks an important step for EcotoQ. This partnership will enhance our international collaboration in environmental science and ecotoxicology, promote knowledge sharing, and create new opportunities for students and researchers. Together, we aspire to advance innovative research and amplify the global impact of our work.”
– Isbath Sanni, Coordinator of EcotoQ
To learn more about EcotoQ, please visit the link below.
