Canada Research Coordinating Committee releases 2020鈥�21 progress report
The Canada Research Coordinating Committee聽(CRCC) has released its聽. The report illustrates how Canada鈥檚 federal research funding organizations worked together to meet the challenges facing Canadians and Canada鈥檚 research community due to the聽COVID-19听辫补苍诲别尘颈肠.
The CRCC member organizations supported rapid response research while extending deadlines and funding, sharing research knowledge, advancing joint strategies, engaging a broad spectrum of research strengths to respond to the pandemic and its impacts, and providing emergency funds to help sustain research investments and the research community. At the same time, they continued to advance work on the six strategic priorities for Canadian research:
- supporting Canada鈥檚 research response to聽COVID-19
- strengthening equity, diversity and inclusion聽(EDI) in research
- strengthening Indigenous self-determination, leadership and capacity in research and training
- supporting early career researchers聽(ECRs)
- increasing engagement in interdisciplinary, international, high-risk, rapid-response research
- enhancing interagency cooperation on international research
The report鈥檚 annexes include data on shared performance indicators for EDI and ECR initiatives at the three federal research funding agencies and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
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