DMP requirements by funder

Tri-Agency
Research Data Management Policy

Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy FAQ

All grant proposals submitted to the agencies should include methodologies that reflect best practices in RDM.

For certain funding opportunities, the agencies will require DMPs to be submitted to the appropriate agency at the time of application, as outlined in the call for proposals; in these cases, the DMPs will be considered in the adjudication process.

See below for a list of CIHR, SSHRC, and NSERC funding opportunities requiring DMPs (updated 2024-07-24. For a complete and up-to-date list, see the Government of Canada's page on funding opportunities requiring data management plans):

CIHR

• Network Grants in Skin Health, Bone Health and Muscular Dystrophy (October 2022)
• Team Grants: Strengthening the Health Workforce for System Transformation (June 2023)
  Note: Formerly "Virtual Care/Digital Health Team Grants"
• Team Grants: Lung Health (July 2023)
• Operating Grant: Clinical Trials Projects (July 2023)
• Team Grants: Improving Health and Administrative Data and Monitoring for Rare Diseases (August 2023)
• Infectious and Congenital Syphilis in Canada: Implementation and Intervention Research Response (September 2023)
• Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (September 2023)
• Team Grants: Embracing Diversity to Achieve Precision and Health Equity (November 2023)

CIHR Planned:

• Team Grants: HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections Community-Based Research (date to be determined)
• Directed Grant: Canadian Immunization Network Renewal (date to be determined)

NSERC

• Subatomic Physics Discovery Grants - Individual and Project (November 2023)

NSERC Planned:

• Alliance Society (early 2025)

SSHRC

• Partnership Grants Stage 2 (October 2023)

Must provide a Data Release and Resource Sharing Plan as part of the application.

“Funds will not flow until an acceptable plan has been approved and incorporated into the terms of award.”

Specific requirements may apply in certain programs’ applications.

A DMS plan (no more than 2 pages) should reflect the proposed approach to manage and share scientific data at the time it is prepared and should be submitted at the time of application. DMS plans should be updated during the course of the award/support period.

For the Intramural Research Program, a DMS plan will be required for scientific data from:

• Research associated with a ZIA
• Research associated with a clinical protocol that will undergo IC Initial Scientific Review
• Research associated with a Genomic Data Sharing project

NIH Intramural Data Management and Sharing Plan Template is available online. (Please note, investigators should not enter their plan into this pdf, as plans must be entered directly into the NIDB.)

Sample DMS plans can be found on the NIH Scientific Data Sharing website.

After the end of the funding period, non-compliance with the NIH ICO-approved DMP may be taken into account by NIH for future funding decisions for the recipient institution.

The DMP (no more than 2 pages) “should describe how the proposal will conform to NSF policy on the dissemination and sharing of research results”.

The DMP should be submitted as a supplementary document in the application.

"(DMPs) are a cornerstone for responsible management of research outputs, notably data and are mandatory in Horizon Europe for projects generating and/or reusing data."

"A template for a DMP is provided. Its use is recommended but not mandatory."