Annual Progress Report Questions for Sustainable Food Systems for Canada

Dear SF4C Partners,

Thank you in advance for taking the time to provide information about your Sustainable Food Systems for Canada activities. The information you share will help us fulfill our Lab to Market reporting requirements to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

If you have any questions, please contact Shelley Morrison at SF4C@uoguelph.ca

As per the definition below, please identify all collaborators and their respective characteristics (e.g., sector, province, discipline, collaboration theme/area and start date of participation) for the current reporting period.

Collaborators (synonymous with partners that do not receive funds directly from the tri-agencies): individuals or organizations that are not affiliated with the applicant or co-applicant institutions, who contribute their own resources to, or advise the network on its overall direction. These include private, public, healthcare, or not-for-profit entities. Their involvement may range from voluntary participation to compensated consulting services and can include activities such as helping to develop and deliver programs to enhance entrepreneurial, commercialization and mobilization skills among researchers and highly qualified personnel.

Indicate the total number of activities and/or tools that your organization has put in place to collaborate within and across the NSERC-funded Lab to Market networks, for the current reporting period (if applicable).

Please identify all financial contributions your organization received on behalf of the network for the current reporting period including in-kind salaries for your organization.

In-Kind: In-kind contributions considered essential to the research could take the form of cash-equivalent goods or services that represent an incremental expense the partner organization would not normally incur and that would have to be purchased by project funds if not donated. In-kind contributions may also include the time of the partner organization’s scientific/engineering and technical or expert staff who will be providing direction and participating in the project. In some cases, the partner organization may provide access to special equipment or data.

Personnel:

Please provide details on salaries for the current reporting period.

Please indicate the total award/stipend amounts awarded to participants by category (for the current reporting period) and the total number of participants.

• HLTH (Health) – Biomedical sciences, Clinical sciences, Health systems/services, Environmental sciences and population health sciences   
• NSE – Life sciences, Physical sciences, Engineering, mathematics and computer science
• SSH – Social sciences and humanities.

Please indicate the total number of training activities delivered to participants (i.e., researchers, HQP and adult learners) by language, discipline, province and territory for the current reporting period. Please report activities under the category that best reflects their primary purpose or focus. For activities delivered entirely online, please report them under the province or territory that best reflects where the activity was organized or administered by the network.

From the training activities identified above, please provide a brief overview of the activity.

Key outputs: e.g., mentor matches, industry challenge participation, collaborations formed.

Indicate the total number of participants involved in training activities during the current reporting period, using the following categories.

Participants may include college and university (undergraduate and graduate) students, postdoctoral researchers, technicians, artisans, tradespeople, research assistants and associates, researchers, and other trainees.

Please indicate the total number of participants that engaged with your organization for the current reporting period. If participants span more than one type, please choose their principal role to categorize them.

To support SF4C’s NSERC reporting, please provide the best available estimates for outcomes achieved during this reporting period by participants who engaged in programming delivered by your organization.

To support SF4C’s annual NSERC reporting, we are gathering examples of our network’s most significant achievements during this reporting period. Please provide examples and explain the social, economic and/or health benefits for Canada.

Please describe the type(s) of initiative(s) your organization has put in place during the most recent fiscal year to ensure the participation of equity deserving groups and the outcomes of these initiatives.

Equity deserving groups includes women, Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Inuit and Métis), persons with disabilities, members of visible minority/racialized groups, and members of 2SLGBTQI+ communities.

Describe how your organization is adopting / incorporating environmental sustainability (i.e., in its administration or in the training programs offered.)

Ex. sustainable operations; environmentally conscious program delivery; sustainability integration into curriculum/training.

For the most recent fiscal year, please explain what measures your organization took to ensure access to training activities at a national scale in both official languages. Please describe any challenges encountered and how they were overcome (if applicable).