tri-agency session 2013 caura regional meetings richard isnor (nserc), cynthia paquin (chairs),

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Tri-Agency Session2013 CAURA Regional Meetings

Richard Isnor (NSERC), Cynthia Paquin (Chairs),Jean Saint-Vil (NSERC), and Adèle Savoie (SSHRC)

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

connect@nserc-crsng.gc.cawebgrant@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca

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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 openaccess@nserc-crsng.gc.ca .

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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:

digitalscholarship@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca.

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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 Grants 3186 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 connect@nserc-crsng.gc.ca

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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 : roadmap-plan.strategique@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

• Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR)

Questions : spor-srap@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

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Part 4

Questions / Feedback

Consult the Agencies’ Web Sites for more information