Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Program Name:

NSERC Alliance & Mitacs Accelerate Grants – New Joint Initiative

Type:

Application

Internal Deadline

2 weeks in advance of submitting your application

Program Deadline

No Deadline – Applications accepted at any time.

Research Focus:

NSERC and Mitacs are pleased to build on the success of their existing partnership with a new joint initiative that will support the R&D efforts of Canadian university researchers and their partners while supporting highly qualified personnel including students and/or postdoctoral fellows.

Through NSERC’s Alliance grants and Mitacs’s Accelerate, this new opportunity is available to Canadian researchers through a single application submission and review process. Applicants are invited to include in their Alliance application a request for additional support through Mitacs Accelerate internships as a component of the training of highly qualified personnel.

Alliance grants support university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors, on their R&D efforts that will create economic, social and/or environmental benefits to Canada.

Accelerate puts the talent of students and postdocs to work with a paid internship at an organization that needs their expertise.

Alliance-Accelerate applications require the following information when outlining the training of highly qualified personnel:

• A description of the role of the Mitacs interns in the research project and an explanation of the quality of the research-based training experiences provided to the interns
• A description of how the internship partnership organization is committed to providing supervision and mentorship to the interns
• An explanation of how the number of Mitacs interns and the number of internship units are appropriate to the scope of the project

Applicants who wish to include Mitacs Accelerate internships in their Alliance application should contact their local Mitacs business development representative to obtain the NSERC/Mitacs joint application form. Applicants must submit the NSERC/Mitacs joint application form to NSERC with their Alliance proposal.

For more information please visit the NSERC Alliance/Mitacs Accelerate Grants webpage.

Funding Details

Up to 5 Years

Program submission instructions:

1. Notify the Office of Research of intention to apply.
2. Review in full the NSERC Alliance/Mitacs Accelerate Grants
3. Follow the instructions found in “How to Apply” on the NSERC Program Website.
4. Submit the final proposal accordingly on-line.
5. Submit Cover Sheet, and final copy of all application documents to the Office of Research.

Office of Research contact:

Program contact:

Mitacs Representatives:

Ashley Hannon PhD
Director of Business Development, Waterloo-Wellington
Pronouns: She/Her
M: 519-282-1119
ahannon@mitacs.ca

Amanda Green, PhD
Director of Business Development, Communitech
Pronouns: She/Her
M: 519-580-5476
agreen@mitacs.ca

Program Name:

Type:

Application

Internal Deadline

2 weeks in advance of submitting your application

Program Deadline

No deadline – applications accepted at any time

Research Focus:

In partnership, NSERC Alliance and OCE’s Voucher for Innovation and Productivity (VIP) will support post-secondary R&D collaborations with the highest potential for regional economic development and commercialization in Ontario.

The streamlined joint application and decision process enables companies to quickly undertake new research collaborations with Ontario-based researchers and have their cash contribution leveraged by both NSERC and OCE. The mutually beneficial projects are expected to result in economic benefits to the company and to Ontario and build impactful longer-term collaborations between the researcher and the company.

Research Partner:

• Principal investigator at Ontario publicly funded university/research hospital, or applied research officer at Ontario publicly funded college

Industry Partner:

• For-profit company
• Restricted to SMEs
• Operations and/or R&D in Ontario with capacity to commercialize results of the project

Project:

• Utilizes unique skills/resources of post-secondary institution to meet industry innovation and commercialization needs

More information can be found here.

Funding Details

Individual proposals can request at least $20,000 up to $30,000 from NSERC (Alliance grant) and at least $20,000 up to $30,000 from OCE VIP, with a corresponding $20,000 to $30,000 from the industry partner (at least 50% must be cash provided to the academic institution).

Program submission instructions:

1. Notify the Office of Research of intention to apply.
2. Review in full application guidelines.
3. Submit Cover Sheet, and final copy of all application documents to the Office of Research.
4. Submit the final proposal.

Office of Research contact:

Jennifer Ranford
Senior Manager, Research Partnerships
j.ranford@uwaterloo.ca

Program contact:

For further questions regarding program guidelines, eligibility, and submitting the online application, please contact your OCE Business Development Manager or:

For more information on the VIP program, please contact:

Alexandra Ho

Program Manager

Tel: 416-861-1092 x5018

Email: Alexandra.Ho@oce-ontario.org