The project as a whole creates a green link between the Université de Montréal campus on the mountain, the MIL campus and the hippodrome site. The initiative has now gone further, beyond the idea of biodiversity and green space: Active transport, food security, stormwater management and citizen empowerment are some of the additional components that are connected to it. From the outset, the borough has recognized the importance of getting involved in this project, in partnership with the university. A dialogue was initiated and rapidly led to the pooling of expertise.

In this way, the project has advanced towards its goal step by step, including more and more stakeholders and, consequently, more points of view. Connecting green spaces and reducing habitat fragmentation has its challenges, of course. The issues raised become applied case studies for UdeM students in different disciplines, who then supply potential solutions. Academic studies are thereby transformed into tangible developments.