Category: Research Security

Ottawa Bans Federal Funding for Research With Chinese Military Institutions; Calls on Provinces, Universities to Do the Same

Ottawa is banning federal research funding for projects done in collaboration with any researchers affiliated with China’s military. The federal government is calling on the provinces and universities across Canada to follow similar guidelines. “Grant applications that involve conducting research in a sensitive research area will not be funded if any of the researchers working…


Ottawa Adds National Security Risk Assessments to Federal Research Funding

OTTAWA—The federal government is setting new guidelines that work national security considerations into funding criteria for university research. Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne says research projects must now undergo a risk assessment as part of any grant application to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He says the research council will then assess…