Policies and guidelines

College and Community Innovation program

Partners

• College and Community Innovation program partnership guidelines

Apply

Supplemental guides and overview

• Eligibility
• NSERC guide on integrating equity, diversity and inclusion considerations in research
•  Safeguarding your research
• Tri-agency financial administration guide
• Relationship between NSERC proposals and other sources of funds
• CCI guide for research involving Indigenous Peoples and communities
• Guide to addressing equity, diversity and inclusion in College and Community Innovation program grant applications

Award

•  Access to research results: Guiding principles
• Appeals of NSERC funding decisions
• College and Community Innovation program intellectual property
• Requirements for the public announcement of NSERC grants, scholarships and prizes
• Tri-agency statement on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
• Procedures for general complaints
•  Public communications policy of the federal research funding organizations

Review

• Guidelines on the assessment of contributions to research, training and mentoring
• NSERC’s guidelines on impact assessment

Post award

• Family and medical leave

Additional links that apply to CCI

•  Tri-council policy statement: Ethical conduct for research involving humans – TCPS 2 (2018)
• Official languages policy
• Policy on research involving controlled goods and information
• Requirements for certain types of research
  • Research involving human pluripotent and/or totipotent stem cell
  • Research requiring environmental review or assessment
  • Research involving the use of animals or biohazards
  • Research involving the use of controlled goods or information
• San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
• The Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act
  • The Access to Information Act
  • The Privacy Act
  • Use and disclosure of personal information provided to the College and Community Innovation program
•  Tri-agency framework: Responsible conduct of research (2021)
•  Tri-agency open access policy on publications
•  Tri-agency research data management policy