Research Western
Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/CREATE-FONCER_eng.asp#tphp
Sponsor/Award: NATURAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING RESEARCH - COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE (CREATE) PRGM - 2009 FALL COMPETITION - FULL APPLICATION

Grant Amount: $150K - $300K FOR UP TO 6 YRS
Deadline: Dean's: Sep 08, 2009
Internal: Sep 15, 2009
Sponsor's: Sep 22, 2009

Subject Areas: Information And Communications Technology, Interdisciplinary Research, Environmental Technology, Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources, Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Energy, Training and Development
Description:

The Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program supports the training of teams of highly qualified students and postdoctoral fellows from Canada and abroad through the development of innovative training programs that: - encourage collaborative and integrative approaches, and address significant scientific challenges associated with Canada?s research priorities; and - facilitate the transition of new researchers from trainees to productive employees in the Canadian workforce.

To build on Canada's research strengths and priorities and to enhance our success, at least 60 percent of the CREATE funding will be directed to the following priority areas: - Environmental science and technologies; - Natural resources and energy; - Health and related life sciences and technologies; and - Information and communications technologies. The training program's excellence in the full application will be assessed in relation to its: * innovative, collaborative, and integrative character; * capacity to better prepare trainees for the workforce; and * potential to support teams of outstanding students and postdoctoral fellows. In arriving at an overall rating for the application, the committee will weight equally the factors listed below. See the NSERC site for full details. 1. Merit of the program 2. Excellence of researchers 3. Program management and sustainability If invited to apply after submitting a letter of intent, submit the following documents to NSERC by the Fall deadline date: * an Application for a CREATE Program Grant (Form 102); * a Personal Data Form (Form 100) for the applicant and up to ten co-applicants; * Letters of support from the university; * Letters from collaborators (maximum three), if applicable.

Application Details:

Successful applicants will consist of a group of accomplished researchers, who will work collaboratively to offer a defined research training program to a group of trainees. This environment will provide trainees with experience relevant to both academic and non-academic careers. The research training experience can target any trainee level: undergraduate students, graduate students (master's and doctoral) and postdoctoral fellows. Successful applications will be those best able to demonstrate the benefits of their proposed research training experience to their targeted trainees. A yearly quota has been established for each university and only those researchers selected at their university can submit Letters of Intent.

To apply for a CREATE Program Grant, researchers must first have submitted a Letter of Intent for a Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program Grant (Form 187). Only those who have submitted a successful notification of intent will be invited to submit a full application. Please contact RD&S as early as possible as you work through your application. Ensure that you consider the eligibility requirements for applicants, co-applicants and collaborators described on NSERC's Web site under Eligibility Criteria as well as the Institutional Eligibility Requirements. The majority of the group must be from NSE fields, but co-applicants at the interdisciplinary frontier between NSE and the areas covered under the umbrella of SSHRC and CIHR may be incorporated into proposals.

INDIRECT COSTS ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY THIS PROGRAM.

NOTE: Letters of Intent and Full Applications are to be processed through Research Development Services for institutional signatures, and are to be accompanied by a completed RDAF form (bearing applicant, Chair and Dean signatures). Requests for Institutional signatures should be received no less than 3 days prior to the posted Sponsor deadline.
Western Contacts:

Sponsor Contacts:

CREATE@NSERC-CRSNG.GC.CA
350 ALBERT STREET
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada
613 995 4273