About NSERC

Our Vision

NSERC will help make Canada a country of discoverers and innovators for the benefit of all Canadians.

Our Mission

NSERC will achieve this by investing in people, discovery and innovation through programs that support university research in the natural sciences and engineering on the basis of national competitions, and that will continue to be our major activity.

For your information, we have included articles and editorials regarding NSERC's vision and its new initiatives.

Contact Article – March 2004, Vol. 29, No. 2

Contact Article – January 2004, Vol. 29, No. 1

Our Role

NSERC's role is to make investments in people, discovery and innovation for the benefit of all Canadians. We invest in people by supporting nearly 22,000 university students and postdoctoral fellows in their advanced studies. We promote discovery by funding more than 10,000 university professors every year. And we help make innovation happen by encouraging more than 500 Canadian companies to invest in university research.

In 2005-2006, NSERC will invest $865 million in university-based research and training in all the natural sciences and engineering.