CSPC Trailblazer Awards

Eligibility

• Nominees must be residents of Canada or Canadian citizens living abroad.
• Nominees can be at any stage of their career.
• Nominees can be from any sector, including industry, government, academia, not-for-profit organizations, media, etc.
• All scores and feedback provided by the Awards Selection Committee will not be disclosed for any reason.
• Upon Nominees’ consent, the CSPC reserves the right to profile any Impact Statement in all Conference materials and CSPC website before, during, and after the event.
• The CSPC and the Awards Selection Committee members will not release any confidential information from the nomination form.
• The current CSPC Board, staff, Award Committee volunteers, and members of the Awards Selection Committee cannot nominate anyone nor be nominated.
• Self-nominations are NOT accepted

Summary

The CSPC Trailblazer Awards recognize individuals who have demonstrated novelty and creativity through leadership, vision, courage, and commitment, and positively and significantly impacted the Canadian Science, Technology and Innovation ecosystem. These individuals have been instrumental in boldly spearheading change via one or more transformative initiatives, while blazing a trail and inspiring others to follow.

CSPC 2024 will present four Trailblazer Awards, one in each of the categories of Policy for Science, Science for Policy, Innovation Policy and finally, a new award as of this year: Science & Society.

CSPC encourages nominations from all disciplines of policy and science (natural sciences, engineering and technology, health and life sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities) and from all sectors (governments at all levels, academia, private and nonprofit sectors, media, and others).

Please note that technological or scientific discoveries or inventions are not considered for this award.

Application deadlines

Program application deadline

Nomination forms must be submitted, in English or French, by 23:59 (Nominator’s local time) on Saturday June 15th, 2024.

If you have any issues in submitting your nomination or any questions regarding the submission, please email awards.prix@sciencepolicy.ca.

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