The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) carries out in-depth and professional evaluations of its research centres, branches, programs and initiatives, to understand the relevance, success and cost-effectiveness of the NRC.
The results of this work provide NRC senior management with recommendations for improvements, used in strategic planning, performance and risk management.
2024-2025
2023-2024
2022-2023
- Evaluation of the Nanotechnology Research Centre
- Evaluation of the NRC's Industrial Research Assistance Program
- Evaluation of the Innovation Assistance Program
- Evaluation of the NRC's Aquatic and Crop Resource Development Research Centre
2021-2022
- Evaluation of the NRC's Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering Research Centre
- Evaluation of the NRC's Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre
- Evaluation of the Metrology Research Centre
2020-2021 evaluations
- Evaluation of the Genomics Research and Development Initiative Shared Priority Projects
(Summary report) - Evaluation of NRC's Grants for International Affiliations Program
(Summary report) - Evaluation of NRC's Design and Fabrication Services Branch
(Summary report) - Evaluation of NRC's Codes Canada
(Summary report) - Evaluation of the Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre
(Summary report) - Evaluation of the Aerospace Research Centre
(Summary report) - Evaluation of the Automotive and Surface Transportation Research Centre
(Summary report)
2019-2020 evaluations
2018-2019 evaluations
- Evaluation of TRIUMF (Summary report)
- Evaluation of the Canada Accelerator and Incubator Program (CAIP) (Summary report of the Evaluation of the Canada Accelerator and Incubator Program (CAIP))
- Evaluation of NRC's Digital Technologies Research Centre (Summary report)
- Evaluation of NRC's Energy, Mining and Environment Research Centre (Summary report)
2017-2018 evaluations
2016-2017 evaluations
- Evaluation of the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) (Summary report)
- Horizontal Evaluation of the Genomics R&D Initiative (GRDI) (Summary report of the Horizontal Evaluation of the Genomics R&D Initiative (GRDI))
- Evaluation of NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics (HAA) Portfolio (Summary report of the Evaluation of NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics (HAA) Portfolio)
- Evaluation of the Canada Accelerator and Incubator Program (CAIP) (Summary report of the Evaluation of the Canada Accelerator and Incubator Program (CAIP))
- Evaluation of NRC Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering (OCRE) Portfolio (Summary report of the Evaluation of NRC Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering (OCRE) Portfolio)
- Evaluation of NRC's Initiative under the Roadmap for Canada's Official Languages 2013-2018 (Summary report of the Evaluation of NRC's Initiative under the Roadmap for Canada's Official Languages 2013-2018)
- Evaluation of NRC Aquatic and Crop Resource Development
2015-2016 evaluations
- Evaluation of the National Institute for Nanotechnology
- Evaluation of NRC Grants to International Affiliations (IA)
- Evaluation of the Business Innovation Access Program
- Evaluation of NRC Measurement Science and Standards
2014-2015 evaluations
2013-2014 evaluations
- ARCHIVED - Evaluation of the NRC Centre for Surface Transportation Technology
- ARCHIVED - Evaluation of NRC Construction Portfolio
- ARCHIVED - Evaluation of the Digital Technology Adoption Pilot Program
- ARCHIVED - Evaluation of NRC's Contribution to TRIUMF