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Tri-Agency Session2013 CAURA Regional Meetings
Wafa Bitar (SSHRC)Elizabeth Boston (NSERC)Alexandra Reid (NSERC)
Working Together Working Together to Canada’s Advantage to Canada’s Advantage
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Part 1 – Over to you…
•Research Portal
•Open Access Draft Policy
•Capitalizing on Big Data
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Research Portal
Thank you for your invaluable support and collaboration to date
Your feedback on the CCV / Research Portal
(including Research Administrator interface)• Top 3 things that went well • Top 3 challenges
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Research Portal (cont’d)
Your feedback on the quality of support provided by the agencies:
•Webinars targeted at research administrators•Agency staff / Support Central helpdesk•Ideas or tools that would be useful to your work (e.g., ability to export lists of applications to an Excel format)
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Research Portal (cont’d)
Next steps•We will keep you informed of future phases of implementation for the Research Portal / CCV•We continue to welcome your feedback and ideas
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Open Access Draft Policy
We are seeking your feedback and questions on:
•Researchers’ questions and concerns about complying with an open access mandate
•Options for achieving open access to publications (deposit into repositories, and publishing in open access journals)
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Open Access Draft Policy (cont’d)
• Availability of repositories, tools and support services through your institution’s library
• Recommendations for agency support and measures to facilitate the transition towards open access
Send us your feedback before December 13, 2013 at [email protected] .
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Capitalizing on Big Data
We are especially interested in the following:• Are you in favour of making data management plans mandatory
for all applications submitted to the Tri-Agency/CFI?
• What obstacles/challenges will the agencies and other stakeholders face in this undertaking?
• What issues/concerns may be associated with making openly available the data produced through research financed by the funding agencies (including to the public and the private sector)?
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Capitalizing on Big Data
• Please encourage members of your institution to provide feedback between now and December 16, 2013. Email responses should be sent to:
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Part 2 – For Information
Tri-Agency Initiatives
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For Information
• Financial Monitoring – New Review Process• Indirect Costs Program – 10th year evaluation• Canada Excellence Research Chairs – first phase
2 nominations announced• Canada Research Chairs Equity Recognition 2013• Gender Summit 2013
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For Information (cont’d)
• Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s – launched in Fall 2013
• Reminder from the Panel on Research Ethics – comments on proposed revisions to TCPS 2
• Reminder from NCE – Change in the Reporting Deadline for NCE and NCE-KM Networks
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Part 3 – Agency Updates
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NSERC Update
• New President and Vice-President (Research Grants & Scholarships)
• Engage Plus – new grants• RTI Quotas• Statistics – 2013 Strategic Project Grants
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Statistics on the 2014 Discovery Grants Competition
Program Name Number of Applications Received
Discovery Grants3186 applications(does not include Subatomic Physics)
Research Tools & Instruments
466 applications(does not include Subatomic Physics)
CREATE
•121 letters of intent: •48 applications including:
o 2 NSERC-DFG applications and o 18 Industrial-CREATE
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Helping Showcase our World of Discoveries
NSERC is looking for interesting discovery stories to promote the importance of the research enterprise in Canada.
Share with us at
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SSHRC Update
• Two Executive Positions Opening at SSHRC• Imagining Canada’s Future: Six Future
Challenges Announced• Aboriginal Research• Knowledge Mobilization• Guidelines for Support of Tools for Research
and Related Activities
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SSHRC Update (cont’d)
• Achievement Reporting• Knowledge Synthesis Grants on Skills• Partnership Funding Opportunities• Partnered Research Training Initiatives• Joint Initiatives• SSHRC Impact Awards• Storytellers
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CIHR Update
• Reforms of the Open Suite of Programs and Peer Review Process
Questions : [email protected]
• Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR)
Questions : [email protected]
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Part 4
Questions / Feedback
Consult the Agencies’ Web Sites
for more information
