Date/Time
Date(s) - 16/10/2024
All Day

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE) are partnering to fund Research Communities to conduct unclassified research on cutting-edge technologies in areas of strategic importance to CSE and the Government of Canada. A Research Community is defined as a group of researchers – and their research personnel (i.e., students, post-doctoral fellows, and research professionals) – from multiple Canadian universities working in related domains and sharing NSERC?CSE funds awarded to their project(s). The focus of this funding call is on exploratory analysis for unstructured data. CSE is the sole partner organization; no additional partner organizations will be accepted.

• Individual projects can request either $700,000 (small project) or $1,400,000 (large project) per year over four (4) years. Grant funding is provided in equal parts by NSERC and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE).
• The aim is to fund one large or two small projects per call. The first Research Communities grant(s) will be awarded in May 2025.
• CSE may request that applicants of small projects addressing similar, overlapping, or complementary areas merge their proposals to benefit from the full Research Communities grant.