About the Impact Report
In 2023, we launched our first pan-institutional strategic plan for research and innovation, Forward with Purpose, outlining a bold vision to address grand challenges through research, innovation, knowledge mobilization, and commercialization. The plan emphasized curiosity-driven research, creative work, and multidisciplinary connections across academia, government, industry, and communities. We continue to address the grand challenges of our time in our research areas of global excellence (energy and environment, artificial intelligence, health and well-being) and areas primed for further growth (agriculture and food, Indigenous research, social transformations). With significant research capacity, we aim to tackle societal, economic, and environmental challenges locally and globally.
This first year impact report reflects the journey that we have started together to strengthen our foundations. Over the next five years, we will continue to foster partnerships, enhance interdisciplinarity and collaboration, and reinforce principles of academic freedom, equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization.
Our path forward is guided by clear targets and, after one year, we are pleased to share our progress thus far while acknowledging that much work remains to meet all of our goals and objectives. We are committed to achieving the key indicators outlined in Forward with Purpose, driving impact and innovation for a better future.
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Forward with Purpose: A Strategic Plan for Research and Innovation 2023-2028
This first institutional strategic plan for research and innovation presents a bold new step in defining areas for maximum impact to address the grand challenges of our time.
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