Welcome to KTECOP

The Canadian Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Community of Practice (KTECOP) is a network of KTE practitioners and researchers who share KTE practices and experience, build peer relationships for information exchange and support, build KTE capacity, advance knowledge of KTE effectiveness, and share KTE events, job opportunities and other related KTE activities. More »

KTE vs Communications vs Communications about KTE

Some may have seen some e mail traffic between me and Desre.  A web based dialogue is facilitated by using the comment feature below this post to share your ideas. My idea for a KTE CoP session is to discuss the communication messages we use about our services so that our stakeholders (researchers, decision makers, …

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New Centres of Excellence of Canada in Brain Development Seeking KT Officer

Now recruiting a Knowledge Translation Officer for a new Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada in Brain Development. The position will be located in either Saskatoon or Vancouver. This staff member will direct knowledge transfer and exchange activities, developing plain language documents (in print and online) to disseminate knowledge and findings from NeuroDevNet, and …

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Interested in research on Knowledge Exchange?

I am trying to set up a network of people who are currently researching knowledge exchange/research use and related issues. We hope to at least have some virtual discussion, and possibly even a couple of workshops (but as an international group that might be a little trickier). If you are interested, or know someone who …

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ResearchImpact Blog: Carole Eastabrooks

http://researchimpact.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/guru-great-university-based-research-utilization Feel free to comment on the comment feature on the ResearchImpact blog. Thanks for setting up the session with Carole Estabrooks. David

New job posting at York U

Associate Director, Research Agreements and Intellectual Property http://webapps.yorku.ca/nonacademicpostings/summary.jsp?postingnumber=6837

Knowledge Translation Training

The registration is now online for the July 26-27 2010 Scientist Knowledge Translation Training course (see link at bottom of page): Scientist Knowledge Translation Training Workshop Start date: Monday, July 26th , 2010 End date: Tuesday, July 27th , 2010 Time: 8am until 4pm Location: 123 Edward Street, Suite 1218,  Toronto Event Open To: Scientists, …

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Knowledge Translation Professionals Survey – Please participate

Dear Colleague,

This decade marks an important time in the development of the Knowledge Translation profession. Many public sector organizations are developing positions in the KT field, while at the same time, there is an absence of formalized training, educational programs, competency standards, or remuneration benchmarks.

The Learning Institute at The Hospital for Sick Children, is working to develop a Professional KT Certification Program that will be certified/accredited by the Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development (CEPD) at the University of Toronto. The survey linked to this email (see bottom of page) marks one of the first steps to achieving this goal.

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