Canarie - At a Glance

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CANARIE, Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network, is proud to contribute to the objectives outlined in Mobilizing Science and Technology to Canada's Advantage, the Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy established by the Government of Canada in May 2007.

The CANARIE network offers advantages to Canadians in three key areas:

CANARIE's People advantage:

  • Revolutionizes the delivery of education by connecting researchers, professors and students at every university in Canada and enabling new ways to train highly qualified people, create policy or train the next generation of researchers and professors.
  • Facilitates science and research that spans many scientific disciplines, technologies and industrial sectors, supporting discoveries that are essential to Canada's future prosperity and to the social well-being of Canadians.

CANARIE's Entrepreneurial advantage:

  • Bolsters Canada's international reputation in advanced networking, with benefits flowing to both the research and business sectors
  • Delivers advanced networking capability to researchers who partner with industry, and extending the research capacity of companies that participate in collaborative projects.
  • Awards funds to companies and their research partners to accelerate research and development in areas that rely on advanced networking, such as Green IT.

CANARIE's Knowledge advantage:

  • Enables Canada's participation in data-driven research, big science projects and global R&D collaborations, enabling researchers to push the frontiers of knowledge and develop new expertise.

CANARIE's activities and programs also address and support many of the R&D sub-priorities recently identified by the Science, Technology and Innovation Council (STIC) in the State of the Nation 2008.

CANARIE continues to support and collaborate with the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the three federal research granting councils (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research) and its co-delivery agents at the provincial and territorial level, federal labs, researchers and institutions across the country to support innovation in research and education.