Organization: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

Expanded CHRP funding comes with new rules

The expanded Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) program has announced changes for the 2012 competition. The joint program between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council will now require applicants to include a knowledge/technology user partner in their proposals. Ongoing research projects are now eligible for research funding…

Carleton Univ cancels Foundry Program

Carleton Univ‘s Foundry Program has been cancelled after 12 years. The program — designed to provide students with entrepreneurial and commercialization training and assistance in creating tech-based businesses — was operated out of the university’s technology transfer office with support from the office of the VP research. The university is defending the decision to end…

NSERC announces 2010 Synergy Awards

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) has announced the winners of this year’s Synergy Awards for Innovation, given to exemplary university-industry collaboration. Each university researcher receives a $200,000 research grant while participating companies can hire an NSERC Industrial R&D Fellow for two years with NSERC picking up the company portion of the salary.…

Automotive partnership fund makes four awards

The Automotive Partnership Fund (APF) has invested $14.9 million in four university-based projects worth a total of $28.7 million. The largest award ($10.6 million) goes to a $16-million R&D project at McMaster Univ for a project entitled Network for the Engineering of Complex Software Intensive Systems for Automotive Systems in collaboration with General Motors Canada,…

NSERC’s college program makes 11 new awards

Eleven new projects have been awarded nearly $15 million under the College and Community Innovation Program (CCIP) administered by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). The value of the awards range from $200,000 to $2.3 million and will last between two and five years, covering a wide range of technology applications from land…

Banff math research station gets $10.3 million for renewal

The Banff International Research Station (BIRS) for mathematics has received $10.3 million in renewal funding from its North American backers. The largest amount comes from the US National Science Foundation ($3.68 million), followed by Alberta Advanced Education and Technology ($3.4 million) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ($3.25 million). The Mexican partner —…

NSERC announces latest CREATE awards

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) has awarded $32 million over six years for 20 projects designed to raise the standards for best practices in the mentoring and training of new researchers and enhance their employability skills. The awards under the Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program are intended to attract highly…

Climate change adaptation research initiative launched

Four Canadian research agencies have teamed up to launch a $12.5 million initiative to explore how humans and natural systems are adapting to actual and expected changes in climate both in Canada and the developing world. A call for proposals has been issued to seek research teams for The International Research Initiative on Adaptation to…

NSERC makes strategic projects grants worth $53.5M

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council has awarded $53.5 million over three years to 112 research projects under its Strategic Projects Grants and New Media Initiative programs. The projects see university researchers partner with private sector and not-for-profit organizations in areas aligned with the federal S&T Strategy that hold the potential for economic and…

Second round of college projects receives $20 million

Quebec CEGEPs are the big winners in the second competition of the College and Community Innovation Program (CCI). Now a permanent program of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the latest round yielded nine winners including four CEGEP projects. The winners will share $20.1 million over five years with recipients receiving between $1.9 million…