Thursday, January 21: Understanding the Funding Landscape & Optimizing your Research Funding

Invitation: McGill Office of Sponsored Research

Outreach Session:

Understanding the Funding Landscape & Optimizing your Research Funding

(Session Includes Industrial Partners)

Departments: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, Biology, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Geography, Psychology, Redpath Museum.

Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Time: 13:30-15:30

Location: James Administration Building, Room 301

Departments: Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics.

Date: Thursday, January 21, 2016

Time: 10:00-12:00 noon

Location: James Administration Building, Room 301

The Office of Sponsored Research is pleased to invite faculty members to an outreach session focusing on understanding the current funding landscape and how to optimize these various funding sources. Discussions will include strategies and scenarios in applying to granting programs available at the Natural Science Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Mitacs and Provincial Consortia taking into consideration the career path of the faculty member. Particular focus will be on the upcoming NSERC Strategic Grant competition in 2016. This session will also benefit faculty members in connecting with Canadian companies.

Speaker: David Nguyen, Senior Grants and Agreements Officer

*Refreshments will be served.*

Please register with OSR before January 15, 2016 at the following

link for the January 19th session and

at the following link for the January 21st session.