Research Chairs

Canada Research Chairs

The Canada Research Chairs Program stands at the centre of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top five countries for research and development. In 2000, the Government of Canada created a new permanent program to establish 2000 research professorships—Canada Research Chairs—in universities across the country by 2008. The Canada Research Chairs Program invests $300 million a year to attract and retain some of the world's most accomplished and promising minds.

Chairholders advance the frontiers of knowledge in their fields, not only through their own work, but also by teaching and supervising students and coordinating the work of other researchers.

• Canada Research Chairs at University of Victoria

NSERC Industrial Chairs

The NSERC Industrial Research Chairs Program

• assists universities in building on existing strengths to achieve the critical mass required for a major research endeavour in science and engineering of interest to industry; and/or
• assists in the development of research efforts in fields that have not yet been developed in Canadian universities but for which there is an important industrial need; and
• provides an enhanced training environment for graduate students and, where appropriate, postdoctoral fellows, by exposing them to research challenges unique to industry and the opportunity for significant ongoing interactions with the industrial partner(s).

• NSERC Industrial Chairs at University of Victoria