NSERC Discovery Bridge Grant

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The NSERC Discovery Bridge Grant supports established researchers who applied to NSERC’s fall Discovery Grant competition and were unsuccessful in being funded. This funding aims to address specific deficiencies in the most recent grant submission, as highlighted in their NSERC Review Panel reports, and increase the likelihood of success in subsequent grant competitions.

Award Value: $50,000

The maximum award value is $50,000 for one year, with $25,000 supported by the Office of the Vice-President (Research) and matched 1:1 by the applicant’s Faculty. The award value cannot exceed the annual funding from the applicant’s previous NSERC Discovery Grant.

Guidelines & Application Form

Eligibility

A Principal Investigator (PI) (the applicant) must hold an NSERC-eligible academic appointment with a significant research component at Western University.

To be eligible for the NSERC Discovery Bridge Grant, the applicant must:

  1. Have a current NSERC Discovery Grant where funding has ended (installments on prior grants have ceased, grants are past the original grant end date, and may be in the automatic extension or Authority to Use Funds [ATUF] year);
  2. Have been unsuccessful as Principal Investigator in the Discovery Grant competition in the past year  (Fall 2024); and
  3. Have received a minimum rating of two Strong and no more than one Moderate in any category from NSERC’s EG panel for the unsuccessful application (within the past year; Fall 2024).

Submission Process

Applications must be submitted to Western Research via the online submission portal by 3pm EDT on the deadline date, April 29, 2025. A corresponding ROLA proposal that is consistent with the information in the application must be submitted one week before the competition deadline.

Timelines

Contact

For more information about this program, please contact Western’s Office of Research Services via intgrant@uwo.ca.