Funding, News and Announcements

A reminder that CREATE LOIs are due at the end of the week for review and ranking by internal committee. To date, the NSERC form 187 is not available online. Instead, please follow the link below to the NSERC instructions and submit the following.

Internal Deadlines

March 27, 2015: Submit LOI for internal review to meghan.wagstaff@dal.ca

April 3, 2015: Receive committee comments

April 17, 2015: Submit LOI & VPR Letter of Support to meghan.wagstaff@dal.ca

May 1, 2015: NSERC deadline

Form 187 Instructions

• PI Name and Form 100
• Title of proposal which must include “NSERC CREATE in/for”, as well as the discipline
• List of co-applicants
• List of collaborators
• Outline of training program (2 pages free form including a table of trainee numbers)
• Excellence of proposed team of researchers (2 pages free form)
• Industrial stream only - letters of support

Updates to Program Description

Supporting Gender Representation and Advancement

CREATE initiatives are encouraged to promote approaches that increase the representation and advancement of women in the natural sciences and engineering, as one means to foster excellence in research and training. Teams should strive for a balanced gender representation in the group of trainees and in their supervisors, role models and mentors.