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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** |
| Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) | Letter of intent: May 1* |
10 weeks |
| Application: October 1* |
26 weeks | |
| Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program | Letter of intent: May 1* |
27 weeks |
| Application: September 22* |
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| Discovery Frontiers – Call for Proposals | Letter of intent: December 10, 2010 |
5 weeks |
| Invitation to submit full application: January 14, 2011 |
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| Application: March 18, 2011* |
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| Discovery Grants (DG) (Individual, Group and Subatomic Physics [SAP] Project)
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Letter of intent: August 1 |
26 weeks |
| Application: November 1* |
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| SAP Project Applications requesting $500,000 or more per year | Application: October 1* |
26 weeks |
| Discovery Grants – Northern Research Supplements | Application: November 1* |
26 weeks |
| G8 Research Councils Initiative on Multilateral Research Funding | Preliminary application: September 30, 2011 |
- |
| Application: By invitation only |
12 weeks | |
| Major Resources Support (MRS) Program | Letter of intent: May 1 August 1 (Subatomic Physics) |
30 weeks |
| Application: October 1* |
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| Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grants | Application: | 27 weeks |
| Category 1 Categories 2 and 3 |
October 25* October 1* |
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| Ship Time (ST) Program | Application: October 1* |
12 weeks |
| 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 |
13 weeks |
| 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: November 26, 2010 |
16 weeks |
| College and Community Innovation Program – College-University Idea to Innovation (CU-I2I) Grants | Application: No deadline |
13 weeks |
| College and Community Innovation Program - Industrial Research Chairs for Colleges (IRCC) Grants | Application: November 30, 2011 |
4 months |
| 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: December 15, 2010 |
12 weeks |
| Application: August 8, 2011 |
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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 9, 2012* April 10, 2012* July 3, 2012* October 1, 2012* |
11 weeks |
| Innovation Frontiers (IF) | Application: No deadline |
- |
| 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, 2011 |
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 |
