Funder’s website
The funder’s website can be found HERE.
Funding Value and Duration
$20,000 to $1,000,000 for 1 – 5 years.
Overview
Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led by strong, complementary, collaborative teams that will generate new knowledge and accelerate the application of research results to create benefits for Canada.
Alliance Society grants (formerly Alliance cost-sharing option 2) fund projects with societal impact as the main driver.
Research supported by Alliance Society grants will:
- address a societal challenge that will result in new natural sciences and engineering knowledge and societal impact
- bring together academic, partner organization and societal perspectives and skill sets throughout the collaboration
- demonstrate how all interested individuals will learn about and use the products, services or policies that stem from this research
- generate new knowledge and/or technology to address complex challenges
- create economic, social and/or environmental benefits
- contribute to Canada’s long-term competitiveness
- support public policy
- train new researchers in areas that are important to Canada and the partner organizations
- draw on diverse perspectives and skill sets to accelerate the translation and application of research results
Eligibility Criteria
If you are a Canadian university researcher who is eligible to receive NSERC funds, you can apply on your own or as a team with co-applicants who are also eligible academic researchers. You must have at least one partner organization (in the private, public or not-for-profit sector) whose cash contributions will be recognized for cost sharing (see Alliance grants: Role of partner organizations) but you may include other partner organizations who play an important role in your research project whether or not their cash contributions are recognized for cost sharing.
Alliance grants support projects of varying scale and complexity, from short-term smaller projects involving one researcher to long-term projects involving researchers across several universities, and from one-on-one collaborations with one partner organization directly involved in the research to projects involving many partner organizations across multiple sectors.
Internal Contacts
Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.
VPRI Resource Contact: Jenna Pepper
Useful Links
NSERC Alliance – Option 2 Overview Two Pager
Deadlines
Note: Applications will begin to be accepted on December 11, 2019
| Faculty Deadline | Contact your Faculty Research Facilitator |
| OVPRI Approval Form Deadline | 1 week prior to sponsor submission |
| Institutional Signature Submission | Contact Chris Lannon
1 Week Prior to Sponsor Submission |
| Submission to Sponsor | No deadline |
Submitting Your Application
- Step 1) Submit an internal Carleton Approval Form
Submit an internal Approval Form through our central awards management database CUResearch:
https://ovpri.research.carleton.ca/Romeo.Researcher/Administrator/Default.aspx
For a user’s guide on submitting an Approval Form, click HERE. - Step 2) Submit an external application to the granting agency
Submit an external application to the corresponding grant or award agency. For further details about funding categories, eligibility criteria and deadlines for this opportunity, click HERE.