{"id":2090,"date":"2022-01-17T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2022-01-17T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:49:05","slug":"government-backs-over-5500-trailblazing-canadian-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/government-backs-over-5500-trailblazing-canadian-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Government backs over 5,500 trailblazing Canadian researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s highly skilled and talented\u00a0researchers are world-renowned for their leading scientific breakthroughs, discovering bold, innovative approaches and contributing to solving our world&#8217;s toughest problems. Canada&#8217;s academic community has always played an integral role in driving innovation, enriching Canadian society, helping grow our economy and training the next generation of leading experts.<\/p>\n<p>On January 12, the Honourable Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced support for more than 5,500 researchers from coast to coast to coast. This major investment of over $550 million, part of the government&#8217;s ongoing effort to support Canada&#8217;s science and research sector, will strengthen the country&#8217;s research enterprise and have real and lasting impacts on Canadians and the world.<\/p>\n<p>This includes funding for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca\/funding-financement\/nfrf-fnfr\/transformation\/transformation-eng.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Transformation stream<\/a>, awarding grants totalling $144 million over six years to seven Canadian-led research teams for large-scale, interdisciplinary research projects with the potential to realize lasting change;<\/li>\n<li>the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca\/home-accueil-eng.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canada Research Chairs<\/a>\u00a0program, supporting 188 new and renewed chairs and their research teams at 43 Canadian institutions through an investment of $151 million to help them achieve research excellence; and<\/li>\n<li>the granting agencies&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/NSERC-CRSNG\/FundingDecisions-DecisionsFinancement\/ScholarshipsAndFellowships-ConcoursDeBourses\/index_eng.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scholarships and fellowships programs<\/a>, which will provide funding, through an investment of more than $260 million, for more than 5,300 promising graduate students and emerging researchers from across Canada whose research spans many disciplines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more, please <a href=\"https:\/\/educationnewscanada.com\/article\/education\/level\/university\/1\/939272\/b-government-backs-over-5-500-trailblazing-canadian-researchers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s highly skilled and talented\u00a0researchers are world-renowned for their leading scientific breakthroughs, discovering bold, innovative approaches and contributing to solving our world&#8217;s toughest problems. Canada&#8217;s academic community has always played an integral role in driving innovation, enriching Canadian society, helping grow our economy and training the next generation of leading experts. On January 12, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":1912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,122,119,120,127,115,1],"tags":[137,138,139,136,135],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-dawson-research-news","category-funding-agency-news","category-funding-opportunity","category-higher-education-news","category-research-news","category-uncategorized","tag-funding","tag-government-of-canada","tag-innovation","tag-news","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/2091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}