Research
The Advanced Foods and Materials’ Call for Letters of Intent (LOIs) for the STAR/ Commercialization Program
Deadlines for LOIs: January 29, 2010
Background
AFMNet is one of Canada's Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE). The NCE Program is jointly administered by three federal granting councils: the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), in partnership with Industry Canada.
Objectives
The AFMNet STAR/Commercialization Program is in place to:
- Exploit intellectual property (IP) developed from foods and biomaterials research Fund proof of principle research to lead to the development of a product or service
- Develop Canadian technologies which are of benefit and relevance to the social and economic health of Canada
- Lead to technology transfer and knowledge mobilization Further information and documents are available at: http://www.afmnet.ca/research /STAR.html. Please send Letters of Intent and inquiries to:
Tom Dowler, Business Development Analyst
Tel: 519-822-6253 ext.56537 | Fax: 519-824-8453 | Email: tom.dowler@afmnet.ca
Innovation Research Program 2010 Hewlett-Packard Labs – Call for Abstracts
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: January 29, 2010
The Innovation Research Program (IRP) for the year 2010 Call for Abstracts (CFA) is now open and a full list of research topics that is of interest to HPL can be found at the following URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/HPL_IRP_Topics_2010.pdf.
HPL India, in particular, is interested in your research proposal abstracts in the following areas described in Topic 12 (page 21 of 35) of the above pdf document.
Intuitive Multimodal and Gestural Interaction
Simplified Web Interaction
Paper Based Interaction
Devices and Connectivity
The IPR call for proposals document, full descriptions and access to the abstract submission system are available at the following website: http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/topics_2010.html.
MITACS (Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems)
Deadline for Applications: January 31, 2010
MITACS Elevate is a new pilot program designed to ensure that PhD holders, among the most highly-skilled individuals in Canada, are retained and equipped for future careers. Up to 80 positions are available for postdoctoral fellowships at Southern Ontario universities. Each fellowship will be for a one-year term, renewable for an additional year.
Elevate is open to those individuals with a recognized PhD degree who are residents of Ontario or citizens/permanent residents of Canada planning to move to Ontario. Elevate fellows will gain valuable research experience in areas of industrial and societal importance as well as training in non-technical professional skills.
Elevate offers two types of fellowship programs:
Industrial Fellowship Program
Targeted towards PhD holders with an established collaboration with an Ontario-based partner, and valued at $70,000 annually. Fellows are expected to undertake research with their academic supervisor in collaboration with their partner, who provides a minimum $15,000 of the total grant. The fellow will receive a minimum $60,000 annual stipend.
Strategic Fellowship Program
Designed for PhD’s interested in establishing collaboration with an Ontario based-partner during their fellowship, and valued at $55,000 annually. Fellows are expected to undertake research with an academic supervisor in an area of strategic importance for Ontario and where there is high potential for collaboration with a non-academic organization. The academic supervisor is responsible for providing $10,000 of the total grant. The fellow will receive a minimum $50,000 annual stipend.
Please visit: http://www.mitacs.ca/goto/Elevate for program details and to apply. You may direct any questions to: elevate@mitacs.ca.
Ontario Ministry of Transportation – 2010 Highway Infrastructure Innovation Funding Program (HIIFP)
Internal Deadline: February 24, 2010 | Sponsor Deadline: March 4, 2010
The purpose of the program is to encourage basic and applied research in transportation infrastructure in Ontario. This program solicits innovations from institutions to assist the Ministry in meeting selected challenges, and to encourage undergraduate and graduate research in transportation and infrastructure engineering. The program challenges Ontario's academic community to contribute to transportation infrastructure solutions in a number of areas including traffic operations, intelligent transportation systems, engineering materials, highway design, environmental, geomatics, bridges, construction and maintenance.
Further information is available at: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/business/funding.htm
To obtain the guidelines and application forms, please contact:
Office of Research Services
Angie Agulto | email: angie.agulto@utoronto.ca | tel: 416-946-7517
Documents required for ORS review and signature are: (1) Completed and signed RIS form, (2) Full application signed by the Chair/Unit Head and/or Vice-Dean Research.
Ethics Review of Undergraduate Research Involving Human Participants
Any research activity that involves human research participants--e.g., questionnaires, interviews, observation such as job shadowing, testing of research prototypes--even at the undergraduate level, requires research ethics review. Research supervisors and research methods course instructors should therefore work closely with students to submit protocols for research ethics review and approval before data collection begins.
For more information regarding ethics review of undergraduate research, please visit: http://www.research.utoronto.ca/ethics/eh_undergrad.html
Engineering Delegated Ethics Review Committee contact is: estina@ecf.utoronto.ca.
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