Before applying for federal or provincial funding, researchers should consider a few simple questions to determine if their research may be subject to federal or provincial research security policies.
Please use this self-assessment tool as a starting place to determine whether and which of these policies may apply to your application.
The tool is intended as a guide. Researchers are responsible for determining if the Government of Canada's research security policies apply to a grant funding opportunity by consulting the individual competition information on the applicable Tri-Agency or CFI website(s).
Researchers are also responsible for determining if Ontario’s Ministry of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security (MCURES) research security policies apply to a provincial funding opportunity by consulting the individual competition on the MCURES website.
This tool was adapted from the University of British Columbia (UBC) Research Security team’s “Federal policy self-check”.
