Date

Call for Input
Research and Strategic Plans for 2020-2025
Polar Knowledge Canada

Input deadline: 31 May 2018

For more information, go to:
https://www.canada.ca/en/polar-knowledge/input-2020-2025.html

For questions, contact:
Polar Knowledge Canada
Email: info [at] polar.gc.ca


Polar Knowledge Canada (POLAR) invites input for their next five-year Research Plan and broader agency-wide Strategic Plan. These plans will guide the agency’s future funding, programs, and activities from 2020 to 2025.

POLAR will use these plans to:

  • Advance knowledge of the Canadian North in order to improve economic opportunities, environmental stewardship, and the quality of life of its residents and all other Canadians;
  • Promote the development and dissemination of knowledge of the other circumpolar regions, including the Antarctic;
  • Strengthen Canada’s leadership on northern issues; and
  • Provide a research hub at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station campus in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada.

Key sections of this Call for Input include:

  • Identifying future research priorities,
  • Supporting northern community-based research and monitoring,
  • Strengthening support for Indigenous knowledge,
  • Ensuring research and Indigenous knowledge are used in decision-making,
  • Supporting training and capacity building,
  • Strengthening support for Antarctic research,
  • Strengthening collaboration with international researchers, and
  • Looking ahead to the future.

Input deadline: 31 May 2018

For the full Call for Input and to submit input online, go to:
https://ca.research.net/r/polar-polaire

For more information, go to:
https://www.canada.ca/en/polar-knowledge/input-2020-2025.html

For questions, contact:
Polar Knowledge Canada
Email: info [at] polar.gc.ca