NSERC website will be unavailable for a few hours on Saturday, March 23. The tri-agency Financial Data Submission and Reconciliation System (FDSR) will also be unavailable during that time. We expect service to resume the same day.
History
NSERC came into existence on May 1, 1978. University-based research had previously been supported through the National Research Council; the report of the Senate Special Committee on Science Policy led to Bill C-26, which created NSERC. NSERC has grown since that first day, from a budget of $112 million, to a budget of $1.1 billion.