Please note the following updates regarding recent and upcoming changes to NSERC leadership and programs. Future updates will be posted here and distributed to researchers via the Queen’s natural sciences and engineering funding opportunities listserv. Click here to subscribe to the listserv.

In the meantime, should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Nancy Churchman, Research Projects Advisor, Office of Research Services, at nancy.churchman@queensu.ca or ext. 77314.

NSERC Common CV Template now available

NSERC is moving to the Research Portal and the Canadian Common CV (CCV). Queen’s Office of Research Services will provide updates to the Queen’s research community as more information becomes available.

The NSERC CCV and accompanying instructions are now available to researchers. See the NSERC notice below for more details. The transition will be phased in gradually (i.e., program by program). All NSERC funding opportunities are expected to be integrated by late 2015.

NSERC encourages the research community to allow ample time to enter their data in the CCV system as it can be time-consuming to populate the fields the first time.

Schedule

Funding Opportunity	System	CV Format	Timeline
Discovery Grants (Individual and Team): Notice of Intent and Full Application	NSERC Research Portal	NSERC CCV	CCV available now; Research Portal available soon
All program elements for the Subatomic Physics (SAP) Grants suite	NSERC Research Portal	NSERC CCV	CCV available now; Research Portal available soon
Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grants	NSERC Research Portal	NSERC CCV	Coming soon
All other NSERC programs	NSERC On-line System	NSERC Personal Data Form (Form 100)	Until further notice

More information about the CCV

• Researchers are directed to the NSERC version instructions as well as the general CCV instructions.  There are also video demos available on the CCV website at https://ccv-cvc.ca/indexresearcher-eng.frm.
• NSERC will be offering a webinar on the CCV, with details to be announced.
• If you have questions relating to technical issues, please contact the NSERC help desk directly at webapp@nserc-crsng.gc.ca or by telephone at 613-995-4273. 

NSERC Announces Changes in Senior Administration

NSERC President Suzanne Fortier has been selected as the new Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University. NSERC has provided an update on ongoing leadership of NSERC in the transition period prior to the recruitment of the next President.

NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grants Program

As recently announced by NSERC, after extensive consultation and input from stakeholders in the research community across Canada, NSERC made a decision on the continued delivery of the program. As per the feedback and preferences received from the community, NSERC will maintain a national competition for the RTI Grants Program and will work with institutions to implement an application quota so that NSERC receives about 500 applications in total.

Starting with the fall 2013 application cycle, universities will be provided with a quota of applications that they can submit to NSERC. The quota will represent about one third of the number of applications received in the past. The quotas to universities will be based on the number of NSERC-funded researchers supported at each institution, with a minimum quota of two applications.

Queen’s quota for the fall 2003 competition will be 13 applications. An internal application process will be introduced to select 13 submissions.

Details of the internal application process will be communicated to researchers via ORS and the Associate Deans Research of their respective faculties.

This page was updated on May 7, 2013.