Strategic plan

OTN’s strategic plan documents the organization’s vision, mission, guiding principles, and key goals and objectives for 2024-2029.

Animal movements are changing at an unprecedented rate due to anthropogenic and natural stressors—never has it been so critical to adopt multi- and interdisciplinary research approaches to generate the knowledge required to inform the conservation and management of aquatic species and ecosystems. With these issues in mind, OTN will enhance its Canadian research facility and continue its transformative global impact; provide innovative and nimble infrastructure and data management services that enable research excellence; and develop partnerships to answer priority questions at local, national and global scales.

The plan’s goals and objectives are grouped by the three core aspects of OTN’s work—to track, connect and transform—within which it details organizational objectives and how they will be achieved, the associated key actions and the expected impacts.