2020 BloodTechNet Award Program competition

Through the BloodTechNet award, Canadian Blood Services supports the development of innovative educational projects that network the Transfusion, Cellular Therapy and Transplantation communities in Canada. These projects deliver educational tools and resources that support the development of skills, knowledge and expertise of the health professionals in this network.

Canadian Blood Services is a not-for-profit charitable organization. Regulated by Health Canada
as a biologics manufacturer and primarily funded by the provincial and territorial ministries of
health, Canadian Blood Services operates with a national scope, infrastructure and governance
that make it unique within Canadian healthcare. In the domain of blood, plasma and stem cells,
we provide services for patients on behalf of all provincial and territorial governments except
Quebec. The national transplant registry for interprovincial organ sharing and related programs
reaches into all provinces and territories, as a biological lifeline for Canadians. Through our
Centre for Innovation, we facilitate the creation, translation, and application of new knowledge to
support a safe, effective, and responsive system of blood and related biologics for Canada.
The objective of the BloodTechNet Award Program is to facilitate the development of innovative
educational projects that network the transfusion, cellular therapy and transplantation
communities in Canada. To achieve this objective, the Program will support projects delivering
educational tools and resources that support the development of skills, knowledge and expertise
of the health professionals in this network. The BloodTechNet Award Program supports the
Canadian Blood Services’ Centre for Innovation’s goal of mobilizing knowledge in order to
promote excellence in transfusion and transplantation medicine. Examples of resources
developed through previous BloodTechNet Award Program competitions can be found online.
The total budget available for the 2020 BloodTechNet Award Program competition is $50,000.
The BloodTechNet Award Program competition will support projects with a proposed budget of
up to $50,000. The number of awards funded will depend on the requested budgets and the
recommendations of the review committee.

Additional information can be found at the Canadian Blood Services Website.