FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS

Strategic Network Grants Supplemental Competition in Manufacturing – NSERC

Internal Deadline: Jan. 26, 2009
NSERC Deadline: Feb. 9, 2009

NSERC is instituting a one-time Strategic Network Grants Supplemental Competition this fall for research in the manufacturing sector. Funding will be available for up to three networks. To be eligible, applications must fit the following manufacturing target area description.
            
Manufacturing Target Area:
To compete successfully in the rapidly changing global economy, Canada needs to develop new value-added products, and use flexible, lean, clean and cost-effective production processes. In light of these challenges, research in this target area will focus on:

• developing technologies that, through advancements in manufacturing processes and material design, would contribute to new and/or competitive products coming to market; or
• increasing manufacturing productivity and flexibility, reducing energy costs and environmental impacts (operational improvements or integrated production systems for a broad range of manufacturing will be considered).

More information regarding this supplemental competition can be found on NSERC’s website at: http://www.nserc.gc.ca/professors_e.asp?nav=profnav&lbi=b2_supp. In the meantime, should you have questions about this competition or the research areas defined above, please contact: rpp@nserc.ca.
 

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2008

The purpose of this program is to help launch new, junior faculty and to increase their competitiveness for external funding.

Awards are made on a competitive basis in accordance with the most exacting standard of peer review.
Successful applicants will receive funding up to twice the amount contributed by the Department or Faculty, up to a maximum from Connaught of $30,000 per application.

An essential element of any submission is evidence of having obtained or a commitment to seek external research support at the earliest opportunity.

Individuals who were unsuccessful in their first application to this program, and who continue to meet all eligibility criteria, are permitted to reapply once.

The value of the award is up to $30,000 from Connaught. Awards greater than $10,000 require a matching contribution from the applicant's University Department or Faculty. The match needs to be at least 50% of the award amount exceeding $10,000.

Those eligible to apply include full-time tenure-stream appointees up to and including the Assistant Professor level, who are within the first five years of their first academic appointment at the university.

The New Staff Matching guidelines and application form are available at: http://www.research.utoronto.ca/funding_internal/ff_i_cnsmg.html

NSERC Idea to Innovation (I2I) Program

Internal Deadline: Dec. 15, 2008 
NSERC Deadline: Jan. 12, 2009

The NSERC Idea to Innovation (I2I) Program is a highly focused program intended to assist researchers working with their Industry Liaison Office (ILO) to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology and promote its transfer to Canadian companies.

Researchers must first make an invention disclosure to the University (for campus-based faculty) or the hospital (for hospital-based faculty). I2I applications must be supported by the University's ILO or the hospital equivalent (hospital-based faculty) in order to be eligible for this program. For campus-based faculty, the University's ILO is The Innovations Group (TIG). The TIG officer or hospital equivalent officer involved in the application must be identified in the technology transfer section of the proposal.

The disclosure, technology assessment and application preparation are lengthy processes which cannot be completed at the last minute. These applications involve Research Services (UTRS), the ILO (TIG or hospital equivalent), a partner if it is a Phase II application, as well as the applicant. Please allow enough time to ensure all these steps have been taken and that application is in preparation well before the internal deadline.

Applicants with a potential health sciences focus in their proposals are encouraged to consult with a Program Officer from either NSERC or CIHR in advance of submission. The Program Officer will assist in determining whether the proposal should be directed to I2I or CIHR's Proof of Principle (POP) Program.

Please take the following to Research Services by the Internal Deadline:

• completed, signed RIS form available online at
  http://www.research.utoronto.ca/funding/pdf/ris_blue.pdf
• complete original application forms (Forms 101 and 100)
• one copy of the full application, including Form 100

Program description

Application Instructions

Imperial Oil University Research Awards Program

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2008

Imperial Oil University research awards are designed to encourage research at Canadian Universities in areas of interest to Imperial Oil’s petroleum, petrochemical and energy resource development businesses. These areas include the fields of engineering, environmental, earth, chemical, and physical sciences.

Awards for specific research projects are made to full-time faculty members to support research work carried out by University students under their direction.

Individual awards are normally available in amounts ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 depending on budgets for the proposed research, availability of funds, and potential significance of the research as determined by Imperial.

Awards are made for one year and may be renewed annually for a maximum tenure of three years.

Further information and application can be found in Imperial Oil website at : http://www.imperialoil.ca/Canada-English/Thisis/URG/TI_D_U_UniversityResearchApply.asp

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