If the funding is granted and we can continue our operations, we'll stay the course and be able to offer our programs gradually. As I mentioned, the bachelor's degree programs we submitted to the ministry must be approved over the next few months so we can offer them in September 2020.
We're working on a certificate in the pedagogy of postsecondary education. Many university and college professors have no pedagogical training. The current trend is toward experiential pedagogy through skills acquisition. The Cité collégiale supports that approach and has 1,000 trainers who have to adapt to this new way of doing things. We have a plan, and the program is already developed on paper. So we could start offering it in summer 2019.
We already have a supply of programs in place. We have the authority to issue degrees, without going through the approval organizations, for the bachelor-level programs we have proposed. Consequently, we could open in 2020 and start by offering degrees in those fields.
We'll be able to start teaching and to begin scientific and academic activities as soon as we have the necessary resources.