NSERC Alliance Society: Strategies for Success - May 20, 2025

The Innovations & Partnerships Office (IPO), in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts & Science and the Centre for Research & Innovation Support (CRIS), is pleased to host an NSERC Alliance Grants workshop series with the NSERC Regional Office to share best practices, tips, and strategies for developing a competitive Alliance proposal.

The NSERC Alliance Grants program is one of the most flexible and popular avenues for government funding support for externally sponsored research, offering up to $1M/year for up to 5 years for individual research projects with partners drawn from industry, not-for-profit, or public sectors. The Alliance program has three streams: Advantage, Society, and International. This first session will focus on the Alliance Society (formerly option 2) grants that fund projects with societal impact as the main driver.

U of T faculty and staff are invited to bring their questions directly to NSERC during the session.

Moderators:

• Glaucia Lima, Business Development Officer, Industry Partnerships, Innovations & Partnerships Office (IPO)
• Sloane Evariste, Funded Research Officer, Faculty of Arts & Science

Panelists:

• Marianne Touchie, Professor, Civil and Mineral Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Don Jackson, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Arts & Science
• Alison Janidlo, Manager, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

For more information on the updates to the NSERC Alliance, please visit the NSERC Webpage.