Organization: Network of Centres of Excellence

MITACS restructures as NCE funding winds down

MITACS is being restructured as two separate organizations to ensure sustainability as it nears the end of its life as a Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE). Mitacs Inc will have broader mandate than its predecessor and retain the organization’s suite of programs to address attraction, retention and training of highly qualified personnel in collaboration…

MITACS unveils new post-doc program in Ontario

MITACS has launched a new $10-million pilot program in Ontario to fund more than 80 Ontario postdoctoral fellows to undertake research projects in collaboration with industry. Dubbed Elevate, the program received funding from the Federal Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev) and will provide PhD holders from 14 Ontario universities fellowships worth between $50,000 and…

Precarn funds 14 start-ups through T-GAP program

Precarn Inc has awarded $2.1 million in funding for 14 collaborative R&D projects related to the digital economy. The 14 start-up companies receiving funds through Precarn’s T-GAP Program have assembled 17 other firms that will serve as end-users as well as 14 academic research partners. The projects span a wide range of intelligent systems and…

NanoQuébec launches biosensors funding program

NanoQuébec has teamed with the Canadian Space Agency and the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations, a Network of Centres of Excellence, to fund projects addressing targeted issues in health detection and diagnostics using biosensors with nanoscience and nanotechnology components. Up to $2 million is available.

MITACS to help combat infectious diseases in Africa

MITACS is organizing a three-day meeting in Kampala, Uganda to explore the use of mathematical models to combat the transmission of infectious diseases. Leveraging expertise developed during the 2003 SARS crisis, the MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence plans to apply mathematical modelling to determine decisions surrounding the use of quarantines to prevent the spread…

BIRS receives five-year renewal funding

The Banff International Research Station (BIRS) has received renewal funding of $9.3 million from three funding organizations for the period covering 2006 to 2011. Funding was provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ($2.75 million), the Alberta government ($3.4 million) and the National Science Foundation ($3.1 million). The latter is the largest NSF…

BIRS receives five-year renewal funding

The Banff International Research Station (BIRS) has received renewal funding of $9.3 million from three funding organizations for the period covering 2006 to 2011. Funding was provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ($2.75 million), the Alberta government ($3.4 million) and the National Science Foundation ($3.1 million). The latter is the largest NSF…

PrioNet NCE to link with Alberta initiative

The federal government has unveiled PrioNet, its new Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) for prion research. The announcement comes 19 months after Budget 2004 allocated $35 million over seven years for the initiative to combat bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and other transmissible spongiform encephalo-pathies (TSE) such as variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. PrioNet brings nearly…

MITACS pumps $5 million into 34 projects

MITACS has announced $5 million in funding for 34 research projects. The Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) has now invested more than $27 million since its inception in 1999. Current projects will facilitate research in the areas of information processing, risk and finance, biomedical and health, environment and natural resources and communications networks and…