Competition statistics

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2022 Competition statistics—Letter of Intent stage

The following tables display statistics on the letters of intent (LOIs) submitted to the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) 2022 competition.

Funding requests
	Number received	Amount requested
		Total	Average
LOI	33	$3,560,634,757.00	$107,898,022.94

Alignment with Science, Technology and Innovation Priorities for the Canada Excellence Research Chairs Program and the Canada First Research Excellence Fund
	Number of LOIs per challenge area*
Healthy Canadians	15	45.45%
Innovative and Resilient Communities	22	66.67%
Sustainable Food Systems	6	18.18%
Clean and Resource-Rich Canada	19	57.58%
Technologically Advanced Canada	23	69.70%
* Includes all selected challenge areas.