- NSERC launches seventh TAC competition.
- Tech-Access Canada delivers in-person TAC to the Future workshop in Niagara for representatives from colleges interested in applying for a TAC, as well as a virtual workshop for cégeps and CCTTs in Quebec.
- CMQ and Innofibre co-host the Spring Best Practices Workshop in Trois-Rivieres, QC.
- OECD TIP Knowledge Transfer and Policies project publishes case study on the successful Technology Access Centre model, unique in Canada and to the OCED.
- Tech-Access Canada represents the TACs by presenting at the Conference of Montreal presented by the International Economic Forum of the Americas.
- Expansion of Interactive Visits program to TACs in all regions of Canada.
- The sixth cohort of TAC designations are awarded to seventeen college and cégep applied research centres:
- Arts, Crafts & Technology Micro-manufacturing Centre, Aurora College, Inuvik, NWT
- The BC Beverage Technology Access Centre, Okanagan College, Kelowna, BC
- Boreal Forest Plant & Seed Technology Access Centre, NAIT, Peace River, AB
- Prairie Research Kitchen, Red River College, Winnipeg, MB
- Bio-Industrial Process Research Centre (BPRC), Lambton College, Sarnia, ON
- Cambrian College Centre for Smart Mining, Cambrian College, Sudbury, ON
- Applied Research Centre for Natural Products and Medical Cannabis, Loyalist College, Belleville, ON
- Vestechpro, Cégep Marie-Victorin, Montreal, QC
- Centre collégial de transfert de technologie en télécommunications (C2T3), Cégep de Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC
- Centre en imagerie numérique et en médias interactifs (CIMMI), Cégep de Sainte-Foy, Québec City, QC
- Centre d’Accès en Technologies des Énergies Renouvables et du Rendement Enérgetique (TERRE), Cégep de Jonquière, Jonquière, QC
- Living Lab en innovation ouverte (LLio), Le Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup, Rivière-du-Loup, QC
- Innovation maritime – Institut Maritime du Québec, Cégep de Rimouski, Rimouski, QC
- Service de recherche et d’expertise en transformation des produits forestiers – SEREX, Cégep de Rimouski, Rimouski, QC
- Réseau CCNB-INNOV, Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB), Bathurst, NB
- Nergica, Cégep de Gaspésie et des Îles, Gaspé, QC
- SEATAC, Nova Scotia Community College, Dartmouth, NS
- All TACs from the second cohort are renewed successfully with a second five-year mandate.
- Tech-Access Canada becomes a signatory to the Dimensions charter, committing to encourage greater equity, diversity and inclusion.
- Centre d’accès à la technologie en bio-innovation (CAT-B) hosts the Fall Best Practices Workshop in Ottawa
2019
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