Research Update Funding Opportunities | |
NIST Funding for Civil Infrastructure, Advanced Materials Deadline: June 23, 2009 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has unveiled a 2009 competition for research funding in civil infrastructure and advanced materials in manufacturing. The NIST Technology Innovation Program (TIP) plans to provide cost-shared funding for approximately 25 new R&D projects. TIP co-funds multi-year (up to five) research projects that promote technological innovation in areas of critical national needs. The merit-based, competitive program is open to individual small and medium-sized businesses and to joint ventures, including institutions of higher education, nonprofit research organizations, and national laboratories. Civil Infrastructure The civil infrastructure competition emphasizes technologies to detect corrosion, cracking, delamination, and other structural damage in water and wastewater pipelines, dams, levees, and waterway locks as well as bridges and roadways. Manufacturing Approximately $15 million in first-year funding is allocated for R&D projects in manufacturing to enable better and more cost-effective use of advanced materials in innovative products. The competition is limited to technologies for nanomaterials, composites and superalloys or alloys, and smart materials. TIP is seeking proposals for new technologies for predictive modeling to improve material properties and tool design and for improved methods to scale up advanced materials production and integrate advanced materials into products. TIP awards are limited to $3 million over three years for a single company project and $9 million over five years for a joint venture. More information about this competition can be found at: Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) Program: Notification of Intent Internal Deadline: April 27, 2009 The CHRP program supports focused collaborative research projects involving any field of the natural sciences or engineering and the health sciences. Proposed projects may range from fundamental knowledge creation to research on knowledge application relevant to industry or public policy. Submission Instructions - New this Year
More information on the program is located at:
NSERC contact: chrp@nserc-crsng.gc.ca; telephone 613-947-6374 Major Resources Support (MRS) Program: Letter of Intent Internal Deadline: Not applicable. Applicants send their LOIs directly to NSERC The Major Resources Support (MRS) program aims to facilitate the effective access of Canadian researchers to major regional, national, or international (based in Canada) experimental or thematic research resources by financially assisting these resources to remain in a state of readiness for researchers to use. It also seeks to facilitate access by Canadian researchers to major international resources located outside Canada, excluding any direct financial support towards the operating and maintenance costs of such resources. Starting from fiscal year 2009-2010, the Major Resources Support program will only provide support to unique national or international (located in Canada) research resources. Ongoing grants to any type of resource will not be affected by the program’s new focus. At the time of renewal the resources will need to demonstrate that they fully satisfy the revised program’s objective and selection criteria. Submission of full applications is by invitation only. Substruction Instructions:
Note: Once submitted to NSERC, your Form 181 will no longer be available for revision. For more information before preparing your LOI, please review the updated program description and all documents found in: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/RTII-OIRI/MRS- NSERC contact: resgrant@nserc-crsng.gc.ca; telephone 613-996-0456 Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program: Letter of Intent Internal Deadline: May 1, 2009 The CREATE Program supports the training of teams of outstanding students and postdoctoral fellows from Canada and abroad through the development of innovative training programs that encourage collaborative and integrative approaches, and address significant scientific challenges associated to Canada's research priorities, and facilitate the transition of new researchers from trainees to productive employees in the Canadian workforce. Program Changes & Submission Instructions – New this Year 1. Program Changes: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-
2. Internal Application/Selection Procedures:
3. The completed LOI (which consists of Form 187, Form 100 of the principal applicant and institutional letter of support) can be submitted electronically through the NSERC Online System or by paper. If by paper, the complete package must be mailed to:
More information on this program is available at:
NSERC contact: create@nserc-crsng.gc.ca; tel.: 613-943-1363 Automotive Partnership Canada – New Funding Deadline: Not applicable. New proposal will be accepted on an ongoing basis Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) is being established by five partnering agencies within the portfolio of Industry Canada. The objective of this five-year, $145 million initiative is to support significant, incremental, collaborative R&D activities of benefit to the Canadian automotive industry; partnerships between industry and academia and/or the NRC. A key guiding principle of APC is that all projects (or programs of research) to be funded within this initiative must be driven by industry needs and must have active industrial participation and collaboration. The program involves funding from the following agencies
The overriding goal of this initiative is that, at the end of the Automotive Partnership Canada’s five years, the Canadian automotive industry will have established, through the experience of successful collaborations with academic and NRC researchers, a long-term resource through which it may address many of its research and innovation challenges.
The importance of the social sciences and humanities within the research priorities is well recognized. There is significant social science research that correlates with the research themes, including, but not limited to, issues of: safety, cognition and behavioral issues; supply chain management; and social science aspects of cost reduction, e.g., organizational behavior, plant performance and productivity, worker interaction and empowerment. To facilitate this process, a Project Office, to act as a portal for APC, is being established. To increase flexibility and responsiveness, APC will not involve a specific 'call for proposals.' Rather, new proposals will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Emphasis is being placed on proposals involving the participation and contributions of more than one agency within APC. This is to say, integrated research projects (or programs of research) involving universities and the NRC, NSERC researchers and SSHRC researchers, tackling multi-faceted and multidisciplinary research challenges. |
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