Education and higher education

• $20.0M over two years for the Fonds de recherche du Québec to support its mission of supporting, structuring and promoting research in Quebec;
• $17.8M over five years to enable the Institut de la statistique du Québec to continue developing access to data for research purposes;
• $17.0M over three years to further promote public research and protect intellectual property throughout Quebec, particularly with the help of Axelys.

• $315.0M to promote students’ educational success;
• $250.0M to meet urgent and temporary needs for school space;
• $74.0M to make the education network more attractive to workers
  • $53.0M to encourage retirees from the education network to return to work;
  • $21.0M to continue making part-time positions more attractive.

• $346.6M to continue intensifying training and qualification in targeted fields;
  • $150.0M to continue promoting and enhancing engineering and information technology disciplines;
  • $19.2M to support the training and qualification of childcare educators;
    • $3.2M over two years to continue enhancing the offer of short training programs in early childhood education;
    • $12.0M in 2026-2027 to extend funding for the work-study pathway in early childhood;
    • $4.0M over two years to extend free recognition of prior learning and skills in early childhood education.
  • $15.5M to accommodate larger cohorts in medicine;
  • $131.8M to extend employment assistance allowances;
  • $28.6M to maintain efforts to integrate immigrants into employment;
    • $25.6M over five years to support the offer of bridging training and health internships for immigrants, enabling the creation of new cohorts in targeted professions;
    • $3.0M in 2026-2027 to maintain efforts to integrate asylum seekers into employment, including by supporting employment assistance initiatives and strengthening actions aimed at regionalization and improving their employability.
  • $1.5M to support the development of the Indigenous workforce.
• $45.3M to support university research;
  • $30.0M over three years to renew the Fonds de recherche du Québec excellence scholarships;
  • $15.3M over five years to support research organizations;
    • $6.3M to the Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO);
    • $4.8M for the Research Chair in Taxation and Public Finance at the Université de Sherbrooke;
    • $1.8M to the Centre for Productivity and Prosperity, Walter J. Somers Foundation, at HEC Montréal;
    • $1.5M for the joint initiative “En avant math!” of the Centre de recherches mathématiques of the Université de Montréal and CIRANO;
    • $0.9M for the Institut du Québec

About 77% of these investments aim to keep existing infrastructure in good condition, while about 23% are allocated to new infrastructure.