NSERC Strategic Grants Recipients Announced
Junior Minister of Science, etc. Gary Goodyear was in London, Ontario yesterday to announce the results of NSERC’s Strategic Grants funding competition. $53.5-million will be allocated among 122 research projects across the country.
The Strategic Grants program was designed to fund projects that address the sub-priorities for Canadian research as identified by the Science, Technology and Innovation Council’s State of the Nation report last year: environmental science and technologies, natural resources and energy, information and communications technologies, and health.
As with seemingly every other granting program these days, recipients are expected to work with private or non-profit partners to address “real-world challenges”, which I guess is a departure from research into “make-believe challenges” other funding programs support.
Results can be seen here.
