{"id":149,"date":"2013-12-13T18:54:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T23:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccrccr.srv2.cfshosting.ca\/?p=149"},"modified":"2013-12-23T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:46:45","slug":"149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/149\/","title":{"rendered":"Submission to the 2011 Federal Budget Consultations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Recommendations<\/strong><br \/>\n1. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Granting Councils are the best mechanism to fund basic (curiosity-driven) research in Canada.\u00a0 While funding for the Councils\u2019 targeted programs has increased significantly in recent years, the consensus among our community and our partners in every sector is that increased support for basic research is also essential to a healthy national innovation capacity.\u00a0 Recognizing this, Budget 2010 did increase the Councils\u2019 funding for basic research &#8212; a small but much appreciated increase.\u00a0 Much more remains to be done, however, particularly given that the cuts to the Councils mandated in 2009 will reduce their budgets by $87M p.a. in 2011-12 and beyond. CCR therefore recommends:<br \/>\n<em> \u00a0That the federal government augment the basic (curiosity-driven) research portion of the Granting Councils&#8217; budgets by 5%. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0A key role of basic research is to educate, inspire, and unleash the creativity of the next generation of highly qualified people.\u00a0 Relative to our population, however, Canada produces 35% fewer graduates at the crucial doctoral level than the OECD average or the U.S.10\u00a0 This has been recognized by the federal government with the creation of, for example, the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships.\u00a0 CCR therefore recommends:<br \/>\n<em> \u00a0That additional graduate level scholarship programs be developed and sustained over the long term to support emerging researchers, as current stimulus programs expire.<\/em><br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Adding at least 40% to the direct costs of conducting research in Canada, indirect costs29 are reimbursed by the federal Indirect Costs Program at only about 25%.30\u00a0 The shortfall is borne by the research institutions, forcing them to forego other investments that would improve the quality of teaching and research.\u00a0 The U.S., U.K. and the EU recognize the impact of such a burden and reimburse 40-60% of the direct costs of research.\u00a0 Maintaining world-class research infrastructures and facilities in Canada requires increased support to cover these costs.\u00a0 However, CCR recognizes the current financial situation and therefore recommends:<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0That the funding for the indirect costs of university research rise over the course of the next 5 years to represent 40 percent of the direct costs funded by the granting councils.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Name: Paul S. Vincett &#8211; Chairperson<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCR-2011-Budget-Submission.pdf\">http:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CCR-2011-Budget-Submission.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2010-08-16<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommendations 1. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Granting Councils are the best mechanism to fund basic (curiosity-driven) research in Canada.\u00a0 While funding for the Councils\u2019 targeted programs has increased significantly in recent years, the consensus among our community and our partners in every sector is that increased support for basic research is also essential to a healthy national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualites","category-presentations-au-gouvernement","actualites","presentations-au-gouvernement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}