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Partnerships Options for Companies

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.

Industry-Driven Collaborative R&D Program
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.
College and Community Innovation Program
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.
Training in Industry Program
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 Partnerships Program
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.
This link will take you to another Web site Collaborative Health Research Projects
Participate in interdisciplinary research projects involving any field of the natural sciences or engineering and any field of the health sciences.
Commercialization Program
Idea to Innovation
Commercialize new concepts.

Read what other companies are saying...

"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