Research Western
Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/RPP-PP/SNG-SRS_eng.asp
Sponsor/Award: NATURAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING RESEARCH - STRATEGIC NETWORK GRANTS - 2010 SPRING COMPETITION - PRE-APPLICATION

Grant Amount: VARIED FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS
Deadline: Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: Apr 24, 2010
Sponsor's: May 01, 2010

Subject Areas: Information And Communication Technology, Environmental Planning or Policy, Renewable Resource Management, Information Management, Ecosystem Management, Energy Conservation, Fish and Fisheries, Forest Management, Hydrocarbon Fuels, Ecosystem Health, Optical Networks, Soil Remediation, Lake Systems, Agriculture, Air Quality, Groundwater, Photonics, Networks, Mining, Rivers, Safety, Systems Engineering, Wireless Networks and Services, Waste Management, Urbanisation, Sustainable Consumption and Production
Description:

Strategic Network Grants (SNG) Program is to increase research/training in targeted areas that could strongly enhance Canada's economy, society and/or environment within the next 10 years. The Strategic Network Grants program is a targeted program. Please check the target area descriptions on NSERC's website.

For the 2010 preliminary application competition, only applications investigating the target areas of Advanced Communications and Management of Information, Healthy Environment and Ecosystems, and Sustainable Energy Systems will be accepted. Please read the Active Network web page, to ensure that your network proposal does not overlap with any existing networks. Preliminary applications are reviewed by the Strategic Projects Selection Panels. Based on this review, applicants may be invited to submit full proposals.

Application Details:

LOI process applies for this program. Applicants invited to submit a full proposal must do so within six months of the notification of acceptance of the preliminary application. Strategic Network Grants fund large-scale, multi-disciplinary research projects in targeted research areas that require a network approach and that involve collaboration between academic researchers and Canadian-based organizations. The applicant should be an established researcher with a solid track record in collaborative research, student training and grant management, and who demonstrates the leadership and other skills necessary for managing a complex, interdisciplinary, multi-institutional project. Strategic Networks may be local, regional or national. Strategic Networks require a minimum of $500,000 and a maximum of $1 million annually from NSERC and are funded for up to five years. These grants are not renewable for a second term. - The network must involve a minimum of five academic researchers who are eligible to receive NSERC funding, from at least three separate departments, faculties or institutions. - The network must have the strong commitment and active involvement of Canadian-based partners from relevant sectors (industrial, government), as appropriate for the research area.

Co-applicants from outside the natural sciences and engineering may be incorporated into the proposals. Academic researchers outside the natural sciences and engineering may participate in Strategic Network proposals as co-applicants if they meet NSERC's eligibility requirements with respect to type, duration and nature of appointment. Research costs for these collaborations may comprise up to 30 per-cent of the project costs and must be identified in the budget. You can prepare an Application for a Grant (Form 101) (pages 1 and 2) using the electronic submission system, but you must print it out and submit the paper version (two copies). Preliminary applications cannot be submitted on-line.

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:

RPP@NSERC.CA
350 ALBERT STREET
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada
613 995 4273