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Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/SRO-OSR_eng.asp
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Sponsor/Award: |
NATURAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING RESEARCH - SPECIAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY - 2009 OPEN COMPETITION - FULL APPLICATION |
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Grant Amount: |
VARIED FOR UP TO 3 YEARS |
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Deadline: |
Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: N/A
Sponsor's: N/A
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Subject Areas: |
International Collaboration, Collaborative Research, Engineering, Canada |
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Description: |
The Special Research Opportunity (SRO) program supports unique, emerging research opportunities that are timely, urgent, high-risk or have a strong potential for breakthrough that will be of substantial benefit to Canada.
The program also supports pre-research activities to investigate and develop potential new collaborative projects necessary to respond to these national and international opportunities.
Partnerships and collaborations are encouraged where relevant. The SRO program supports projects involving any field of the natural sciences or engineering. The proposed project may range from fundamental knowledge creation to knowledge application. the research project must be novel, high risk, or have a strong potential for breakthrough. Pre-research activities must have the potential to lead to a significant new collaborative project of benefit to Canada.
Support will be for up to three years for a specific research project with defined milestones and objectives.
There is no deadline for researcher-initiated submissions. |
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Application Details: |
Requests to the SRO program may be researcher-initiated or NSERC-initiated through a Request for Proposals. Researcher-initiated proposals can be submitted at any time.
The special opportunity must be unique, unforeseen, and outside the normal evolution and advancement of a longer term research program. It is timely and linked to a window of opportunity that did not exist a year ago, and will not exist in the future.
(Advancements of ongoing research and collaboration, such as research supported through an NSERC Discovery Grant, do NOT constitute a special opportunity. ) Full applications must be submitted within three (3) months of the invitation from NSERC after a successful LOI submission.
For the full application, you will need:
- Application for a Grant (Form 101).
- Personal Data Form (Form 100) for each applicant (collaborators must also submit a Form 100 or a C.V. in a comparable format of no more than six pages).
- Letter(s) of support from Canadian or foreign organizations or collaborators describing their contributions (in cash or in kind) to the research project (if applicable) and confirming agreement to any data sharing or IP issues.INDIRECT COSTS ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY THIS PROGRAM. |
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NOTE: All research-related grant applications, letters of intent, contracts and agreements requiring an institutional or organizational signature must submit related documents to the Office of Research Services for review and approval. Requests for institutional signature should be received a minimum of five to ten business days before the
posted Sponsor deadline. Please see Western Research's website regarding the institutional signatory process for more details. Specific opportunities may have their own timelines and requirements for submissions. A ROLA Proposal submitted by the PI and bearing department and faculty approvals is required. |
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Western Contacts: |
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Sponsor Contacts: |
613-992-8117
350 ALBERT STREET
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada
613 995 4273
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