Details
| Opportunity Name | Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future |
| Agency | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), US National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Value | Up to $100,000 |
| Indirect Costs | Ineligible |
| Duration | 4 years |
Deadlines
| Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review | 01-21-2025 |
| Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review | 01-29-2025 |
| Final application and fully signed ORS checklist due at ORS for mandatory review | 01-31-2025, by 9:00AM |
| Application due at agency | 02-04-2025 |
Objective
To support activities that significantly accelerate the materials discovery-to-use-timeline by building the fundamental knowledge base needed to advance the design, development, and manufacturability of (i.e., properties relevant to manufacturing, process-property relationships, property performance metrics, potential pathways for scale-up, economic feasibility, supply chain considerations, or life cycle issues) of materials with desirable properties or functionality.
Eligibility
To be a Canadian applicant or co-applicant on a DMREF proposal, you must be working in a research area supported by NSERC. As an applicant to this initiative, you must collaborate with at least two US-based researchers who meet the NSF eligibility requirements; the US researcher will be the PI on the NSF DMREF proposal.
Each Canadian team should submit only one application to NSERC for their participation in a DMREF proposal. You may participate as an applicant on only one DMREF proposal, but you may be a co-applicant or collaborator on multiple proposals.
How to Apply
Important: The US Principal Investigator (PI) for your partnership is responsible for submitting the complete application package (including the research proposal) to NSF, following their instructions.
As the Canadian applicant, you must submit a simplified application package to NSERC, and on behalf of any additional Canadian co-applicant if applicable, at the same time that the US PI submits the full application to NSF.
York University researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency. For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature. Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed ORS checklist to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.
ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined here.