Research Security - Institutional Performance Objectives and Allocations
In Budget 2022, the Federal Government introduced new funding through the Research Support Fund (RSF) to further support the activities related to the indirect costs of research security and to support the National Security Guidelines for Research Partnerships.
Ontario Tech received:
- $44,612 in fiscal year 2023-2024; all funds will be allocated to management and administration of an institution's research enterprise.
- $43,998 in fiscal year 2022-2023: all funds were allocated to management and administration of an institution's research enterprise.
To ensure institutional accountability to stakeholders, including researchers, community and industry partners, and Canadian taxpayers, the university is required to report the outcomes of the performance objectives annually.
Institutional performance objectives by fiscal year
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2023-2024
2023-2024 Fiscal Year. Table of 6 columns, to be read by row. Column 1 lists eligible program expenditure category. Column 2 lists output (investment of research security funds). Column 3 lists performance objective. Column 4 lists performance indicator. Column 5 lists target outcome. Column 6 lists report outcomes. Eligible program expenditure category Output (investment of research security funds) Performance objective Performance indicator Target outcome Report outcomes (TBA) Research security Invest research security portion of RSF grant (44,612) to offset new hire of full time Manager, Safeguarding Research Hire one full time Manager, Safeguarding Research in the Office of Research Services using RSF security funds. Successful hiring of full time Manager, Safeguarding Research Hire Manager to begin to identify and mitigate risks to research security per the National Security Guidelines for Research Partnerships Target to report:
Successful hiring of Manager Safeguarding Research
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2022-2023
2022-2023 Fiscal Year. Table of 6 columns, to be read by row. Column 1 lists eligible program expenditure category. Column 2 lists output (investment of research security funds). Column 3 lists performance objective. Column 4 lists performance indicator. Column 5 lists target outcome. Column 6 lists report outcomes. Eligible program expenditure category Output (investment of research security funds) Performance objective Performance indicator Target outcome Report outcomes (TBA)
Research security Invest research security portion of RSF grant ($43,998) in cybersecurity and data management. Begin to identfy secure internal and external IT infrastructure and provide resources and assistance to researchers in security assessments and risk mitigation and data management plans. Conduct faculty and grad student survey in fy 2022-2023 to identify research data, security, and storage practices and needs.
Develop an asset map of internal and external data storage, sharing and cybersecurity options available to researchers in fy 2022-2023.
Complete faculty and grad student survey.
Complete asset map of digital infra- structure available.
The Research Security portion of the grant was invested in supporting the management and administration of the institution's research enterprise.
The survey and asset map were successfully completed.