Tri-Agency funding

University of Waterloo research awards from the three major granting agencies - the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Office of Research database (InfoEd)

Inclusions:

• Research awards from the three major granting agencies - the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) in the last ten years
• For multi-year awards, the budget allocated for the fiscal year is reported (not the entire award)

Exclusions:

• Any research awards not administered through the University of Waterloo Office of Research (the Affiliated and Federated Institutions of Waterloo and non-academic units may choose to administer their awards directly)
• Research awards from sponsors other than the Tri-Agencies
• Canada Research Chair program funding

2017/18: University Research Centres and Institutes now report to the Vice-President, Research; accordingly research awards previously attributed to these entities have been moved to the Office of Research (included under “Other”).  Previous years have also been revised.

2018/19: Tri-agency has been reclassified into 3 categories, Tri-Agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR), TIPS (Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat) and Tri-Agency Other. This has been necessary to accommodate the increasing number of Tri-Agency programs that are not funded directly from one of the three original agencies (i.e. NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR). A number of other minor changes have been made as part of this exercise to move sponsors to the correct category. 

•    UW – SSHRC has been moved from Tri-Agency to Tri-Agencies SSHRC
•    CERC, CFREF, CRC and Research Support Fund (RSF) has been moved from Federal (excluding Tri-Agency) to Tri-Agency TIPS. 
•    NCE has been moved from Federal (excluding Tri-Agency) to Tri-Agency Other.    
•    Canada 150 Chairs and New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) have been moved from Tri-Agency to Tri-Agency TIPS
•    CanmetMATERIALS has been moved from Tri-Agency to Federal (excluding Tri-Agency)
•    Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute has been moved from Federal (excluding Tri-Agency) to Provincial 
•    Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance has been moved from from Federal (excluding Tri-Agency) to Canadian Private Sector Industry
•    Canadian Ornamental Horticultural Alliance has been moved from Federal (excluding Tri-Agency) to Canadian Non-Profit Industry. 
•    FedDev has been moved from Provincial to Federal (excluding Tri-Agency). 
Previous years have also been revised.

2019/20: Sponsor type ‘Private Sector – Other’ has undergone a cleanup exercise. Previous years have also been revised. With this change you may notice shifts in funding from one sponsor type/grouping to another.