Program directory · Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Discovery - Advancement of Knowledge

Department: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Program code: CBB00 (NSERC)
Core responsibility: Canada is a world leader in advancing, connecting and applying new knowledge in the natural sciences and engineering.
In Departmental Plans: Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2013-14 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2013-14. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
Discovery - Advancement of Knowledge	This program	2013-14 – 2017-18	$2.33B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

Year	What changed	Source
2015-16	Employees (FTEs) 82, against 55 in 2014-15 (+49%).	FTEs (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.

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Fiscal year	Planned	Actual
2013-14	—	$404M
2014-15	—	$418M
2015-16	—	$455M
2016-17	—	$504M
2017-18	—	$547M

Employees (FTEs)

Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.

Show the numbers

Fiscal year	Planned	Actual
2013-14	47	54
2014-15	50	55
2015-16	59	82
2016-17	62	85
2017-18	89	86

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.