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Application Deadlines and Notification of Decision
Your application must be received at NSERC by 5:00 p.m. local time (at your location) on the deadline date. If it is not received by NSERC by the deadline, it will be considered late and will be rejected. If the deadline falls on a weekend or federal holiday, your application must reach NSERC by the following working day.
*Remember that most institutions have a deadline date that is earlier than NSERC's deadline date.
**From the date NSERC receives the complete application
| Grant Programs | ||
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| Title | Deadline Dates | Notification of Decision** |
| Climate Change and Atmospheric Research | Letter of intent: May 17, 2012 |
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| Invitation to submit full application: July 2012 |
- | |
| Application: October 1, 2012 |
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| Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) | See  CIHR Web Site |
- |
| Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program | Letter of intent: May 1* |
27 weeks |
| Application: September 22* |
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| Collaborative and Thematic Resources Support in Mathematics and Statistics (CTRMS) Program
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Letter of intent: May 1, 2013 |
- |
| Invitation to submit full application: June 1, 2013 |
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| Application: November 1, 2013 |
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| Discovery Frontiers – Call for Proposals | Letter of intent: May 1, 2013 |
6 weeks |
| Invitation to submit full application: June 14, 2013 |
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| Full application: November 15, 2013 |
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| Discovery Grants – Northern Research Supplements | Application: November 1* Application: November 1* |
26 weeks |
| Discovery Grants (DG) (Individual, Team) | Letter of intent: August 1 |
26 weeks |
| G8 Research Councils Initiative on Multilateral Research Funding and Belmont Forum | Preliminary application: July 20, 2012 |
12 weeks |
| Invitation to submit full application: September 20, 2012 |
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| Application: December 20, 2012 |
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| Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grants Category 1 |
Application: October 25* |
27 weeks
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| Ship Time (ST) Program | Application: September 1* |
12 weeks |
| Subatomic Physics Discovery Grants Applications (Individual, Team, Project) | Letter of intent: August 1 |
26 weeks |
| Application: November 1* |
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| Subatomic Physics Team and Project Discovery Grants Applications requesting $500,000 or more per year | Letter of Intent August 1 |
30 weeks |
| Applications October 1* |
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| Subatomic Physics Major Resources Support (SAP-MRS) Applications | Letter of Intent August 1 |
30 weeks |
| Applications October 1* |
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| Subatomic Physics Research Tools & Instruments (SAP-RTI) Applications, Category 1 | Applications October 25* |
27 weeks |
| Subatomic Physics Research Tools & Instruments (SAP-RTI) Applications, Categories 2 and 3 | Letter of Intent August 1 |
30 weeks |
| Applications October 1* |
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| Chairs and Faculty Support Programs | ||
| Title | Deadline Dates | Notification of Decision** |
| Chairs in Design Engineering (CDE) |
Preliminary application: April 8* |
12 weeks |
| Invitation to submit full application: May 27 |
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| Application: August 26* |
15 weeks | |
| Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering (CWSE) |
Application: For Atlantic, Ontario and Prairie regions March 31, 2011 |
13 weeks |
| Industrial Research Chairs (IRC) | Application: No deadline |
4 to 7 months |
| Partnerships Programs | ||
| Title | Deadline Dates | Notification of Decision** |
| Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grants | Application: No deadline |
3 to 5 months |
| College and Community Innovation Program - Applied Research and Development (ARD) Grants | Application: No deadline |
6 to 26 weeks |
| College and Community Innovation Program - Applied Research Tools and Instruments (ARTI) Grants | Application: December 10, 2013 |
16 weeks |
| College and Community Innovation Program – College-University Idea to Innovation (CU-I2I) Grants | Application: October 1, 2012 |
Varies |
| College and Community Innovation Program - Industrial Research Chairs for Colleges (IRCC) Grants | Application: October 15, 2012 |
24 weeks |
| College and Community Innovation Program – Innovation Enhancement (IE) Grants | Letter of intent: Varies |
- |
| Application: Varies |
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| College and Community Innovation Program - Technology Access Centres (TAC) Grants | Letter of intent: July 3, 2013 July 12, 2013 (for colleges and cégeps in Quebec) |
6 weeks |
| Application: By invitation only |
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| DND/NSERC Research Partnership Program | Application: No deadline |
16 weeks |
| Engage Grants (EG) | Application: No deadline |
4 to 6 weeks |
| Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants | Application: January 7, 2013* April 2, 2013* July 2, 2013* September 30, 2013* |
11 weeks |
| Interaction Grants (IG) | Application: No deadline |
3 weeks |
| NSERC and CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes Funding Initiative for Sodium Reduction in the Canadian Food Supply | Application: No deadline |
13 weeks |
| NSERC/ESS Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM) Program | Letter of intent: September 15, 2010 |
4 weeks |
| Application: By invitation only |
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| NSERC/NRCan/AECL Generation IV Energy Technologies Program | Preliminary application: August 7, 2011 |
3 weeks |
| Application: October 31, 2011 |
13 weeks | |
| Strategic Network Grants (SNG) | Preliminary application: June 1, 2013 |
16 weeks |
| Application: By invitation only |
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| Strategic Project Grants (SPG) | Application: April 1* |
26 weeks |
| Tri-Agency Partnership on Knowledge Syntheses on the Environment | Application: October 1, 2010 |
24 weeks |
