CSC Responds to Changes in NSERC RTI Program

Due to changes in the most recent budget, the NSERC RTI Program (Research Tools and Instrumentation), which supports individual equipment purchases of $7K to $150K, will be dramatically reduced in scale. Instead of funding approximately $30M worth of equipment yearly across disciplines, only $6-10M will be available. New processes are needed to deal with this reduced envelope of funding. In their consultation process, due to end September 28th, NSERC has provided two options listed here as Question one.

In order to assist the CSC in preparing a response to NSERC, we have composed the survey below, which will close September 24th. This survey will enable us to provide hard data along with our response to NSERC, helping the CSC advocate on your behalf.

Survey