In its March 2022 budget, the Government of Quebec allocated $1.5 million in 2022-2023 to enable the Centre de recherches mathématiques de l'Université de Montréal (CRM) and CIRANO to continue their work in the « En avant Math! » partnership.

For the past three years, the CRM and CIRANO have been working together to establish a strategy to foster the development of a highly qualified workforce in applied mathematics for leading-edge fields. In this second phase of the partnership, projects will be proposed to further investigate various research themes, including workforce availability and retention in STEM fields and labor market integration of more at-risk populations particularly in STEM fields.