NSERC Research Partnership Programso Expanding know-howo Creating opportunitieso Finding solutions
Federal Tri-Council Funding Agencies
HealthSocial
Sciences & Humanities
Natural Sciences & Engineering
NSERC Budget > $1 Billion
People (28%)
Innovation (30%)
Discovery (37%)
Administration(5%)
The Five Major Programs in RPPUniversities Colleges
Strategic Partnership Program
Industry-Driven Collaborative R&D Program
Commercialization Program
Training in Industry Program
Colleges and Community Innovation Program (CCI)
Strategic Project Grants (SPG)
Partnership Workshops (PWG)
Idea to Innovation (I2I) Industrial Undergrad Student Awards (i-USRA)
Applied Research and Development (ARD) Grants
Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP)
Interaction Grants (IG)
Centres of Excellence for Commercialization & research (CECR)
Industrial R&D Internships (IRDI)
Applied Research Tools and Instruments (ARTI) Grants
Auto. Partnership Canada (APC)
Engage Grants (EG) Industrial Postgraduate Scholarships (IPS)
Innovation Enhancement (IE)
Strategic Network Grants (SNG)
Collaborative Research and Development (CRD)
Industrial R&D Fellowships (IRDF)
Technology Access Centres (TAC)
Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE)
Industrial Research Chairs (IRC)
College-University Idea to Innovation (CU-I2I)
Business-Lead Network of Centres of Excellence (BL-NCE)
Industrial Research Chairs for Colleges (IRCC)
Encourage new partners to collaborate…o Provide an opportunity to get to know one another
o Identify a company specific challenge
o Explore a strategy to jointly solve it
o Try out a short collaboration
o See what value was created
o Decide whether to continue or not
…in any possible way.
Interaction & Engage Grants
Engage Grants
Engage Grant(EG)
• New relationship• 6 months• Up to $25K• No company cash• Company owns the IP• No application deadline
“First Date Grant”
Interaction Grants
Interaction Grant(IG)
• New relationship• 3 months• Up to $5K• Travel and meeting
expenses • No application deadline
“Travel Grant”
Regional Opportunities Fund
Regional Opportunities Fund (ROF)
• Special networking events and activities in NSE
• Typically $1k-$5k• Academic and industrial
participants• Promote NSERC’s RPP or
Industrial S&F• No application deadline
“Speed-Dating Grant”
Partnership Workshop Grant
Partnership Workshop Grant (PWG)
• Single workshop or multiple smaller events
• Up to $25K• Focused topic• Academic and industrial
participants• No application deadline
“Super-Sized Speed-dating Grant”
Industrial Scholarships & FellowshipsIndustrial Undergraduate Student Research Awards(I-USRA)
Industrial R & D Fellowships (IRDF)
•$4500 NSERC•$1125 (min.)
company•12-16 weeks
•$30K from NSERC•$10K (min.) company•Up to 2 years
Industrial Postgraduate Scholarships (IPS)
•MSc/Ph.D•$15K from NSERC•$6K (min.) company•1 day/week at
company
“First Job Grant”
Collaborative R&D (CRD) Grants
Collaborative R&D Grant (CRD)
o Industry partner requiredo Focus:o Focused R&D projectso Any point in the research
spectrumo $10k to $500k per yearo Duration can be 1 to 5 yearso Objectives can be short,
medium or long-termo Terms:o Shared costs:
o Each $1 of industry partner cash contribution leverages up to $2 of NSERC contribution“Relationship Grant”
Collaborative R&D (CRD) Grants
Feedback from Industry
o Our Partnership Programs help them:o Stretch their R&D $o Find solutions to their technical problemso Access resources that they don’t have internally –
expertise, knowledge, facilitieso Attract future employeeso Link to other experts and companies
Contact Information
Alexandra (Sandy) ReidResearch & Innovation Development Officer
NSERC Ontario Regional Office - MississaugaTelephone: 905-403-0161Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Regional-
Regionaux/OntarioContacts_ContactsOntario_eng.asp
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