• All Notifications of Intent will be submitted electronically using NSERC’s on-line Form 182.
• Co-applicants will not be required to provide electronic consent to their participation on the NOI application. However, co-applicants and collaborators need to be informed of the precise uses and disclosures of their personal information.
• Research Grants Offices (RGO) will not need to approve NOIs prior to submission to NSERC. However, RGOs will have view-only access to the NOIs via the Institution Service.
• The full application will be submitted electronically using NSERC’s on-line Application for a Grant (Form 101).

• Holders of Discovery Grants (individual grants) may participate on Team Discovery Grants on the understanding that their current Discovery Grant will be cancelled.
• The $15,000 minimum Discovery Grant has been removed; NSERC now applies the principle of a discipline-specific minimum Discovery Grant amount.
• The selection criteria Merit of the Proposal and Relative Cost of Research have been reworded.

GEM – NSERC/ESS Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals 
Revision: August 18, 2010

NSERC, together with the Earth Sciences Sector (Natural Resources Canada), support research projects that focus on one of the following four priority areas:

• Gold Research
• Diamond Research
• Uranium Research
• Thermochronology Research

Letters of Intent to apply are due September 15, 2010.

• Instructions will comprise four sections: General Information, Application Instructions, Signatures and Checklist for a Complete Application. The General Information and the Signatures sections will be common to all instructions. Application Instructions and Checklist sections will provide program-specific application information.
• Links are provided to a number of important documents on the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act, the Use and Disclosure of Personal Information, Data Retention Information, the Web Privacy Statement and to other shared content such as presentation standards.
• All references to submitting paper applications will be removed from instructions to programs that no longer accept paper applications.
• The Signatures section has been clarified and re-ordered to reflect the meaning of signatures at the time of application and during tenure of a grant.
• Under Signatures of the institutional authorities, a bullet was added to certify that the institution obtained approval from other institutions involved in the application process prior to submission.
• NSERC no longer requires that one copy of grant application bearing the original signatures of applicants, co-applicants and university presidents (or their representatives) be kept at the institution when applications are submitted electronically using the On-line System.
• The French translation for “co-applicant” is changed to “cocandidat.”

• “Group grants” are now called “team grants.”
• In the section on Adjunct Professors, “academia” has been replaced by university sector; as well, NSERC translation for “Adjunct Professor” has changed to “professeur auxiliaire.”
• The French translation for “co-applicant” is changed to “cocandidat.”
• The list of salary support programs has been removed. Researchers receiving salary support grants are eligible as long as they meet the eligibility criteria.
• Readers are referred to the Tri-Agency Financial Administration Guide for information on the various leaves.