The Colleges and Institutes Canada Awards Program recognizes and promotes excellence within Canadian colleges, institutes, cégeps, university colleges and polytechnics. The Awards showcase the extraordinary contribution of individuals to their college/institute communities and highlight the role of our institutions in social, cultural and economic development.

• Staff Excellence
• Student Leadership Excellence
• Teaching Excellence

Support is available to prepare your documentation – please do contact Azra Khan at akhan@dawsoncollege.qc.ca.

Deadline: Nominations must be submitted to Azra Khan at the OAD by Jan 7^th latest, for Dawson institutional support to be completed before submission to CI by Friday, January 16, 2015.

Nomination forms are available at the CI Canada website. Note: CI Canada is formerly the ACCC.

Dawson Faculty who are interested in developing learning resources (education materials) may apply for support from the CCDMD.

Support for your application is available from the OAD

“Educational materials,” refers to any type of print or digital resource used for learning or teaching one or more competencies in a program of study. The educational materials can be a textbook (print or digital ), a website, educational software or courseware, a pedagogical scenario, a series of photos or videos, a series of Netquiz exercises, etc.

The CCDMD Call for Projects is now Open

You can download the documents from the Call for Projects section of the CCDMD website.

The deadline is February 27 for institutional approval. If your project is accepted, with your valuable collaboration, the CCDMD hopes to produce new materials that will facilitate college teaching.

An explanatory video and a list of recently approved projects are available online.

Please note that all projects must have institutional approval before being submitted to the CCDMD.

The Entente Canada – Québec is a Federal/Provincial funding agreement whereby the Federal government transfers funds to the provinces to financially support projects originating in post-secondary minority language educational establishments. The principle focus of this particular granting agency is to fund projects that ameliorate, support or create new pedagogical tools, structures or designs.

Look out for the Call for Proposals in the New year!

SHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants:How can emerging technologies be leveraged to benefit Canadians? –

SSHRC Insight Development Grants –

Programme d’aide à la recherche et au transfert (PART), volet innovation sociale –

For more information on research funding opportunities, or Research at the College please contact  research@dawsoncollege.qc.ca

ARPN Journal of Science and Technology is an international, open-access journal that publishes research intensive articles, scientific manuscripts and survey based contributions focusing all aspects of science and technology. The objective of this journal is to bring together research fellows from academia and professional practitioners from industry to enlighten the latest topics of interest and building long lasting collaborations.  We welcome original research and industry experience papers. Contributions should be written for one of the following categories:

• Original research
• Literature Review / Systematic Literature Review
• Short articles on ongoing research
• Preliminary findings
• Technical reports /notes

Results previously published in conferences and/or journals may be submitted as extended versions.