| May 7 | Module 6: Travelling Safely |
Protecting Your Research While Travelling Abroad | Public Safety Canada Provides a global overview of the threat environment when travelling. Summarizes techniques used by foreign governments to acquire research, and provides best practices to follow before, during, and after travel. Learning Objectives: - Raise awareness of travel risks
- Enable researchers to make risk-informed decisions to protect themselves and their research
Date: May 7, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm (EDT) |
| May 22 | Module 1: Safeguarding Science – Raising Awareness |
Raising Awareness of Security Risks and Mitigation Tools in the Research Ecosystem | Public Safety Canada This foundational module raises awareness within Canada's scientific and academic communities about research security issues. It explains the potential for misuse of sensitive research, technology, and materials, along with risk indicators and mitigation tools. Updated annually to reflect the evolving research and national security environment. Recommended starting point for anyone new to research security. Learning Objectives: - Learn guidance and tools to strengthen security posture at research institutions
- Understand how research security intersects with research activities
- Identify and mitigate threats to research security
- Pursue and maintain safe research partnerships
- Consider dual-use implications of research
- Protect valuable research, data, and potentially patentable property
Date: May 22, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:30pm (EST) |
| June 4 | Module 8: Protecting Knowledge: Research Security in Social Sciences and Humanities. |
The Strategic Relevance of Social Sciences and Humanities in Research Security | Public Safety Canada Highlights the strategic role of social sciences and humanities in analyzing and managing complex security challenges. Explores how foreign interference, surveillance, and manipulation strategies can compromise Canada's research ecosystem and affect researchers. Uses case studies to illustrate synergies between STEM and social sciences, dual-use research concerns, and vulnerabilities specific to academic environments. Learning Objectives: - Increase awareness and provide practical tools to identify and address research-related risks in social sciences
- Support informed decision-making in assessing social sciences and humanities grants through a research security lens
Date: June 4, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:30pm (EDT) Register here |
| June 9| Module 3: Demystifying International Student Immigration |
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Provides insight on the immigration process for international students and explains how prospective applicants are security screened for admissibility. Covers immigration forms, supporting documents, and the roles and responsibilities of IRCC and its security screening partners. Includes case studies to demonstrate the process. Learning Objectives: - Learn about the Canadian process of obtaining a study permit for international students
- Review recent case studies
Date: June 9, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm (EDT) |
| TBD | Module 2: Dual-Use Technologies |
Know Your Research – Know Your Partners – Assess the Risk | Public Safety Canada Elaborates on dual-use technologies and research with specific examples that highlight their complex nature and how to recognize their sensitivities. Whether working in STEM, social sciences, or humanities, this module enhances understanding of dual-use research and provides tools for due diligence and risk evaluation. Learning Objectives: - Raise awareness of risks from Sensitive Technology Research Areas and dual-use technologies
- Illustrate the dual-use nature of specific research areas across multiple domains
- Enable participants to better recognize how their work may be sensitive or dual-use
- Highlight the importance of due diligence and safeguarding intangible information
- Balance and reinforce the importance of collaboration in open science
Date: TBD (Last Offered: March 24, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm (EDT)) |
| TBD | Module 4: Know Before You Export |
Canada's Export and Brokering Controls | Global Affairs Canada Increases knowledge about Canada's export controls regime, including what is controlled and why. Explains how research institutions may be subject to export controls, demonstrates how to apply for an export permit, and provides resources and contacts. Learning Objectives: - Increase knowledge about Canada's export controls regime
- Understand how research institutions and academia may be subject to export controls
Date: TBD (Last offered January 19, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm (EST)) |
| TBD | Module 5: Sanctions 101 |
Global Affairs Canada Overview of Canada's current sanctions measures, best practices for conducting due diligence to verify sanctions compliance, and information on permit applications. Details how sanctions affect Canadian educational institutions, research collaborations, funding opportunities, and engagement with international partners in sanctioned countries. Learning Objectives: - Gain awareness of Canadian sanctions, exceptions, and permits
- Learn about compliance and enforcement
Date: TBD (Last Offered: February 5, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm (EST)) |
| TBD | Module 7: Conducting Open-Source Due Diligence? |
Public Safety Canada Provides an overview of open-source due diligence techniques for evaluating risks related to potential research partners. Enhances researchers' ability to gather, analyze, and interpret relevant information using open-source methods to ensure research security and integrity. Learning Objectives: - Find relevant information using open-source methods
- Frame open-source information to analyze and make security-conscious decisions
- Protect researchers during all stages of research
Date: TBD (Last Offered: February 19, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm (EST)) |
