Agenda - NSERC Discovery Grants Workshop
Office of Sponsored Research
Getting Your Grant: Strategies for Success
2010 NSERC Discovery Grants Workshop
Date: Friday, June 11th, 2010
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Redpath Auditorium Â
859 Sherbrooke Street West
Chair: Mary-Margaret Klempa, Associate Director (Foundations & Grants)
Agenda
10:00 - 10:10Â Welcome and introduction by Mary-Margaret Klempa
Panelists:
10:10 – 10:50 NSERC - Committee 1506 -
Geosciences
Nigel Roulet, Geography
New evaluation process (scoring and binning)Â
New peer review process (conference model)
Advice on various sections of the application
10:50 – 11:05 Q & A
11:05 – 11:25 NSERC - Committee 1502 – Biological
Systems and Functions
Leon Glass, Physiology
Relationship to other research support (NSERC/CIHR overlap
issue)
Writing an NSERC grant vs writing a CIHR grant
11:25 -11:45 NSERC - Committee 1510 – Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Henrietta Galiana, Biomedical Engineering
Cultural dynamics of Electrical and Computer Engineering
committee
Discovery Accelerator Supplement Program (DAS)
Research Tools and Instruments Program (RTI)
11:45 – 12:00  Q & A