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Connect with NSERC: Community Engagement Visit
Spring 2016
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Overview
• Highlights of Federal Budget 2016 • Towards NSERC 2020 • Funding Opportunity Updates • Policy Updates • Wrap-up
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Highlights of 2016 Federal Budget
• “Minister of Science will undertake a comprehensive review of all elements of federal support for fundamental science over the coming year”
• Government developing Innovation Agenda 3
NSERC
SSHRC CIHR
NSERC: $30 million + $15 million (2015 Budget) = $45 million moving forward
$95 million per year to federal funding agencies
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Over to you… • Questions? • Comments? • Advice?
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• Vision and Mission • Fostering a science and engineering culture in
Canada • Launching the new generation • Building a diversified and competitive
research base • Strengthening discovery-innovation dynamic • Going global
Towards NSERC 2020
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Towards NSERC 2020
• Vision: To make Canada a country of discoverers and innovators for the benefit of all Canadians – Convener, Mobilizer, Advisor
• Mission: We are the focal point for discovery and innovation in natural sciences and engineering for Canada. – We back bold, high-impact ideas
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Fostering a Science and Engineering Culture
• Goals: Increase interest, awareness, and appreciation of science as a way of experiencing, understanding, and enriching the world.
• Strategy: Take national leadership and be focal point for science promotion
• Outcome: Culture that values science and engineering
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Fostering a Science and Engineering Culture
• Promote: target under-represented groups and teachers, increase funding for PromoScience, broaden scope of PromoScience
• Celebrate: increase profile of NSERC researchers, increase recognition of science promotion, outreach, and mentoring activities in peer review
• Guide: leading Science Odyssey, address gaps and share best practices
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Over to you… • Questions? • Comments? • Advice for implementation?
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• Goal: Mobilize Canada's future brain trust, enable early-career scientists’ independent research careers
• Strategy: Review investment tools to provide
more support to early-career researchers
Launch New Generation
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• Supporting Action: exploring options to support the launch of independent research careers for young investigators in academia and in industry
• Outcome: More opportunities for early-career for advance their careers and work in research-intensive jobs in the university setting and in industry
Launch New Generation
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• DG and Early Career Researchers
• RP and Early Career Researchers
• Current PDF Programs offered by NSERC
Launch New Generation: In Action
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Over to you… • Questions? • Comments? • Advice for implementation?
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Diverse & Competitive Research Base
• Goal: stimulate breakthrough research, mobilize and connect expertise across populations, institutions, disciplines, regions, and sectors
• Strategy: Provide the support and flexibility for researchers to pursue high quality research that will promote diversity and interdisciplinarity
• Outcome: A world-class, dynamic, diverse, and interdisciplinary research enterprise in Canada
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• Gender Equity Action Plan • Collaborative Health Research Projects
(CHRP): recently re-signed five-year MOU • Provide incentives for college-university
collaborations • Discovery Development Grants for small
universities • Discovery Grant Extension with funds • CREATE – increased focus on gender equity
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Diverse & Competitive Research Base: In Action
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Diverse & Competitive Research Base:
In Action • Implement NSERC’s Gender Equity Action Plan
– Policy statement on gender equity – Reporting competition results by gender – Representation of women on review committees – Awareness of gender (unconscious) bias – Consideration of gender in research content and
teams – Policies and practices as to how to assess diverse
types of research contributions – Consultation and engagement with stakeholders
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Over to you… • Questions? • Comments? • Advice for implementation?
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Discovery-Innovation Dynamic • Goal: Deepen the interactions between
colleges and universities, the private sector, governments and civil society
• Strategy: Mobilize the research enterprise.
Build on mechanisms and convene partners • Outcome: A new generation that can work
simultaneously in both discovery and innovation
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• Encourage researchers to work in discovery and innovation with ease and advance more discoveries toward innovation – Awareness, Opportunities, Support
• Strengthen the interactions of industry sectors, companies and innovative start-ups with universities and colleges – Matchmake, Convene, Fellowships, Expertise
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Discovery-Innovation Dynamic
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Discovery-Innovation: In Action
• Engagement visits now involve the discovery and innovation sides of NSERC
• Marketing of Discovery to Innovation • Showcasing success stories
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Going Global • Goal: Secure Canada's access to global knowledge
& expertise. Increase participation in international research endeavours
• Strategy: Leverage Canada’s strengths in areas of national importance. Gain access & contribute to world-class knowledge, talent and expertise
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Going Global • Opportunities for international training and
research partnerships
―Support collaborative research that addresses national and global challenges
• Build relationships with selected international agencies in areas of mutual strength
– More scalable and focused than current informal researcher-researcher relationships
• Enhance participation of multinational/international businesses in research collaborations for the benefit of Canada
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Going Global: In Action • Global Research Council: NSERC first Canadian
host, to take place during Canada 150 in 2017 • European Union: Waterworks collaboration • Horizon 2020 funding for joint EU-Canada
aerospace projects
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Funding Opportunity Updates
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Innovation Updates
• RP - Strategic Partnerships – Project and Networks
• Engage policy changes • IUSRA are now “Experience Awards” • Evaluations – Strategic; results of Industry-
driven programs
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Strategic Partnerships Projects & Networks
• New Target Areas in place for 2016 competitions ― Environment & Agriculture ― Natural Resources & Energy ― Information and Communications Technologies ― Advanced Manufacturing
• Letter of Intent phase planned for 2017 Project competition
• Going Global – Strategic Networks
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Engage Grant Updates • Reason for changes: enhance the quality of
applications received, and reduce the sheer number of proposals submitted.
― Engage Grants applicants at universities are now limited to one new award per fiscal year*: + peer review support through NSERC required
― Industrial partners limited to 2 Engage grants per year, (including university and college-based projects) & minimum size : 2 employees + 2 years in business.
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Name Change IUSRA Now known as Experience
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• Motivation – Confusion between IUSRA and USRA – Allows it to be identified correctly as Co-op
placements in Canadian companies
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Discovery Updates • Early Stage Researchers – extension
option • HQP criterion– FAQ for applicants and
reviewers published, impact being evaluated
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Discovery Updates • Discovery Frontiers
– New award in New Materials for Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency announced January 2016
– Next call: Spring 2017. Process to determine next priority area to start Summer 2016
• Research Tools and Instruments – Applications now submitted via Research Portal – Review of quota system and university-based
processes underway
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Discovery Updates
• PGS and CREATE Evaluation – Key outcomes – PGS and CREATE are effective at supporting
excellence among graduate students and postdocs – Aligned with Government and NSERC priorities
and meet their objectives
• CGS-M updates – allocation
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Policy Change Updates
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Policy Change Updates
• Open data • Subject matter eligibility:
- Tri-agency guidelines updated - NSERC Annex with specific examples now available
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Wrap-up
• Final questions comments? • Further engagement visits planned at
campuses across Canada • Other suggestions, questions can be
directed to [email protected] • Thank you!
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