NSERC works with companies to help you find high-qualified people, advance your R&D, and build relationships that benefit your business through our suite of targeted partnership offerings.
| Interaction Grants Build a new relationship with an academic researcher. |
| Engage Grants Undertake a short-term R&D project to address a specific problem. |
| Collaborative Research and Development Conduct a focused long-term R&D project with a university researcher. |
| Industrial Research Chairs Participate in a significant long-term research project. |
| Partnership Workshops Grants Organise a workshop with university faculty to address your research and technology needs. |
| Applied Research and Development Grants Access research expertise and capabilities at Canadian colleges. |
| Innovation Enhancement Grants Partner with local colleges to address technical challenges in your business. |
| Technology Access Centres - Pilot Access technical services, specialized facilities and college expertise in your region. |
| Applied Research Tools and Instruments Grants Co-fund research equipment and installations at a college. |
| Industrial Postgraduate Scholarships Collaborate with talented master's and doctoral students. |
| Industrial R&D Fellowships Hire doctoral graduates at minimal cost. |
| Industrial Undergraduate Student Research Awards Hire top undergraduate students quickly and easily. |
| Strategic Network Grants Participate in large-scale research projects with other companies, universities and organizations in your field. |
| Strategic Project Grants Reduce the risk associated with leading-edge research. |
| Automotive Partnership Canada Pursue a transformational project within the automotive supply chain with university partners. |
| Chairs in Design Engineering Gain access to leading design groups and solve your design engineering challenges. |
Participate in interdisciplinary research projects involving any field of the natural sciences or engineering and any field of the health sciences. |
| Idea to Innovation Commercialize new concepts. |
"The NSERC program is quite unique... Many technologies in Canada die because of a lack of such federal funding. The I2I program addresses that gap."
Dr. Walied Moussa, University of Alberta