Our work as an affiliated research institute at Mount Royal University includes:

• Enhancing students' exposure to interdisciplinary research through student mentorship, student volunteer opportunities, class lectures and case studies
• Linking MRU students and faculty into partnerships they would not otherwise have access to

• Enhancing MRU's culture of innovation through our interdisciplinary, non-partisan and applied approach to research
• Providing employment opportunities, both short and longer term, for students across campus, creating capstone integrated work learning experiences
• Engaging communities in innovative and productive partnerships - Miistakis is currently engaged with over 100 academic, government, industry, landowner, and ENGO partners
• Accessing funding and partnership sources that do not draw on MRU's resources, bringing both research opportunities and research credibility back to the MRU community
• Enhancing MRU's profile of community engaged change-making - Miistakis acts as a conduit for collaboration and engagement between Mount Royal University and community partners
• Contributing to the academic scholarship of MRU through peer-reviewed submissions
• Off ering unique opportunities for students to get work and research experience that is 'outside' the University, but physically on campus