The Canada Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative, announced Tuesday by Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, will support universities to attract 100 new research chairs, plus hundreds of early career researchers, doctoral students and postdocs from abroad.
The suite of programs is backed by $1.7 billion over 12 years and aims to bring 1,000 researchers to Canada as part of the federal government's international talent attraction strategy, first announced in Budget 2025.
Its centrepiece is the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program, which will provide $1 billion to Canadian universities over 12 years to recruit 100 new chairs. The program will target leading internationally based researchers, including Canadian scholars working abroad, whose work addresses national and global challenges.
"We will be attracting a thousand new researchers, the best and the brightest in the world, and we will have the biggest budget on Earth to do that," said Minister Joly at a press conference in Montreal.
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