Natural Sciences & Engineering

The 2021 Exploration stream competition of the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) was launched on June 22. All competition documents are available on our website, and the Convergence Portal is open.

The competition has 2 stages:

1.       Notification of Intent to Apply (NOI) stage with a deadline of August 10, 2021 (at 8 p.m. Eastern Time)

2.       Full Application stage with a deadline of October 19, 2021 (at 8 p.m. Eastern Time)

Applications at each stage must be submitted by the RGOs.

RGOs are free to set their own internal deadlines.

In preparation for the NOI deadline, we encourage all applicants interested in submitting a NOI, as well as the research administrators, to participate in one of the two upcoming webinars. Below are the dates, times and links to the webinars.

July 13^th – 2021 Exploration NOI – French

10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Eastern Time

Meeting link – Event password: GpBTpRMB572

July 13^th – 2021 Exploration NOI – English

1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Time

Meeting link – Event password: KcwdeVSs354

Webinars will be recorded and they will be made available along with the presentation slides to the research administrators after the session.   

For more information, please contact: NFRF-FNFR@chairs-chaires.gc.ca.

The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program is designed to support worldclass students pursuing doctoral degrees at Canadian universities. The scholarship awards $50,000 per year for three years. The program is open to both Canadian and international students. Students must be nominated by the Canadian university at which they plan to study.

UPEI has an allocation for the 2021-22 competition of:

• one (1) nomination for NSERC

• one (1) nomination for SSHRC

See link below for complete discription and details about funding oppertunity. 

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.

The call is open! Mitacs Globalink Research Internship (GRI) is now accepting faculty project submissions for Summer 2022. 

Please distribute to faculty. The call is open! Mitacs Globalink Research Internship (GRI) is now accepting faculty project submissions for Summer 2022. GRI pairs faculty in Canada with international undergrads for 12-week research projects from May to October. The Globalink program builds international networks and experiences, and positions Canada as a top destination for innovation and research among students from abroad.   All disciplines are eligible Top-ranked senior undergrads travel from Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Taiwan, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States. Faculty can submit multiple projects and re-submit projects from previous years Submit projects by June 9, 2021 at 1 p.m. PT. Questions? Visit our website or contact helpdesk@mitacs.ca.   Mitacs recognizes that due to the pandemic and the uncertainties it has created, you may be operating with limited ability to plan future research projects. Mitacs is moving forward and planning for in-person internships next summer, but we will also prepare in case travel and public health restrictions are still in place. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at helpdesk@mitacs.ca. Thank you,   Ana Majstorovic Proposals Office proposalsoffice@mitacs.ca Mitacs would like to thank the Government of Canada, along with provincial governments, for their support of the Globalink Research Internship program. In addition, Mitacs is pleased to work with international partners including Universities Australia, Brazil’s Araucaria Foundation and University of São Paulo, the China Scholarship Council, the Embassy of France in Canada, France’s University of Grenoble Alpes, University of Bordeaux, and University of Lorraine, Germany’s DAAD, the University of Hong Kong, the All India Council for Technical Education and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute,  Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education, Monterrey Institute of Technology, EDUCAFIN - Government of the State of Guanajuato, Technological University of El Retoño, Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University; Tunisia’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Mediterranean Institute of Technology (Medtech), The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Universities UK International, and Fulbright Canada.   About Mitacs | Contact Mitacs | Privacy Policy | Manage your preferences | Unsubscribe Copyright © 2021 Mitacs, All rights reserved.

The NSERC Discovery Grant (DG) Notification of Intent to Apply (NOI) is now available on the Research Portal.
 

NSERC is launching a pilot funding opportunity to support investigator-initiated individual and team projects that broadly integrate or transcend disciplines to advance knowledge in the natural sciences and engineering (NSE). Full applications submitted to this NSERC program will be reviewed by a tri-agency interdisciplinary peer review committee.

Dal Innovates is excited to share the opening of applications for Path2Innovation (P2I)!

P2I is a three-day program for Atlantic Canadian graduate students, post-docs and faculty taking place July 28 – 30 over Zoom. The program explores the value of entrepreneurial thinking as a means of developing careers and advancing research, innovations, and turning ideas into impacts, whether that be scientific, economic, social, cultural or environmental. P2I is supported by the Government of Canada through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

Applications are now open and will close on July 19th.

Apply here: https://dalinnovates.ca/programs/nnce/path2innovation/