Scholarships
2025-06 – Prix « Coup de cœur du jury – 2e et 3e cycles » dans le Programme de reconnaissance de l’implication étudiante (PRIE) 2025 – Fondation de l’UQAM (500$)
2021-06 – Bourses d’études universitaires (2e cycle) – Fondation Desjardins (3000$)
2021-04 – Bourse Loto-Québec en jeu vidéo et ludification – Fondation de l’UQAM (3000$)
Awards
2025-05 – Prix Hommage bénévolat-Québec in the youth category – Gouv. du Québec
2024-10 – King Charles III Coronation Medal : ”François Savard, from Longueuil, Quebec, a seasoned researcher and practitioner of video games and e-sports, for playing a key role in promoting healthy and responsible virtual consumption.”
2023-06 – The Méritas Organization of the Year award went to the Virtual Guardians Foundation, by the Association québécoise de prévention du suicide (AQPS), for “its innovative ideas, such as online beacons for people in distress and a network of streams workers, which create a genuine digital social safety net”.
