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: alexandra.reid@nserc-crsng.gc.ca Website: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Regional-

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