M-14.1 - Act respecting the Ministère de l’Économie et de l’Innovation

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22.8. The mission of the Fund is to support the strategic and coherent development of scientific research in Québec in the following research sectors:
(1)  nature and technologies, including, in particular, natural sciences, mathematical sciences, technologies, engineering and environmental sciences;
(2)  health, including, in particular, medical and clinical sciences, epidemiology, public health, health services and, more generally, sustainable health; and
(3)  society and culture, including, in particular, social and human sciences, education sciences, management sciences as well as arts and letters.
The mission of the Fund is also to promote the training of the next generation in research and excellence in research in order to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and to the development of solutions to the societal challenges that Québec faces. It contributes to society’s sustainable development and builds on the principles of social innovation. It helps increase, with regard to each of the sectors, the influence of science and its results in Québec, elsewhere in Canada and abroad.
2024, c. 16, s. 2.