Safeguarding Science – Module 2: Dual-Use Technologies: Know Your Research – Know your Partners – Assess the Risk – Mar 24, 2026

Session Description

Safeguarding Science Training Modules 2026 

Dual-Use Technologies: Know Your Research – Know your Partners – Assess the Risk | Public Safety Canada

Module 2 (English) 

This module elaborates on dual-use technologies and research, with specific examples. These examples highlight the complex nature of dual-use technologies and ways to recognize their sensitivities. Whether working in STEM, social sciences, or humanities, the outcome of the module will enhance understanding of the dual-use nature of any research and provide frontline researchers and institutions with tools to perform their due diligence and appropriately evaluate risks.

Module 2 – Learning Objectives

• Raise awareness of the risks arising from research in Sensitive Technology Research Areas and dual use technologies
• Illustrate, through examples, the dual use nature of specific research areas across multiple domains
• Create awareness, challenge, and enable participants to better recognize how their work may be sensitive or dual use
• Highlight the importance of due diligence and a researcher’s responsibility to safeguard the intangible information critical to successful research
• Balance and reinforce the importance of collaboration in open science

Training Modules Overview 

Alongside other forms of engagement, Public Safety Canada’s Research Security Centre has actively been raising research security awareness through Safeguarding Science training modules. The Centre has partnered with other federal departments to create these training modules and ensure expertise in content, delivery, and focus. The modules are intended to enhance the research communities understanding of research security by introducing key concepts such as dual-use technologies, vulnerabilities, exploitation practices, threat vectors, relevant laws and regulations, and other associated risks. Topics of discussion focus on, but are not limited to, best practices in maintaining security-conscious research organization, geopolitical awareness, and research security guidance and tools to help recognize and address risk to Canadian research, researchers, and institutions.

Who should attend
The Safeguarding Science training modules are intended for all – regardless of academic domain. This includes researchers, research staff (including technicians, postdoctoral fellows, and students), research security professionals, research administrators, information technology and information management staff, security personnel, biosafety and radiological safety officers, human resources personnel, supply chain personnel, and senior management.

All Modules 

• Module 1: Safeguarding Science: Raising Awareness of Security Risks and Mitigation Tools in the Research Ecosystem
• Module 2: Dual-Use Technologies: Know Your Research – Know your Partners – Assess the Risk
• Module 3: Demystifying the International Student Immigration Process
• Module 4: Know before you Export: Canada’s Export and Brokering Controls
• Module 5: Sanctions 101
• Module 6: Travelling Safely: Protecting Your Research While Travelling Abroad
• Module 7: Conducting Open-Source Due-Diligence
• Module 8: Beyond the Lab: The Strategic Relevance of Social Sciences and Humanities in Research Security

More details, including French module options, are available online.