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Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) and NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS) provide financial support to high-calibre scholars who are engaged in master’s or doctoral programs in the natural sciences or engineering. The CGS will be offered to the top-ranked applicants at each level (master’s and doctoral) and the next tier of meritorious applicants will be offered an NSERC PGS. This support allows these scholars to fully concentrate on their studies and seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields. NSERC encourages interested and qualified Aboriginal students to apply.

The objective of the Idea to Innovation (I2I) Program is to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology and promote its transfer to Canadian companies. The program supports research and development projects with recognized technology transfer potential by providing crucial assistance to college and university faculty members in the early stages of technology validation and market connection.

Supplements of up to $6,000 will be awarded as a scholarship to active CGS-Master’s or Doctorate or Vanier CGS holders to help offset the costs, including travel and accommodation, of undertaking research studies outside Canada for a defined period. For the purposes of this program, a study period is defined as being no less than three months and no more than six. A total of 250 awards are available each year. They will be divided among the three granting councils and will reflect the distributions of CGS and Vanier CGS across the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health-related disciplines.

The purpose of the atmospheric and meteorological graduate supplement is to:
• promote graduate research in the atmospheric and meteorological sciences in Canadian universities;
• encourage and support graduate students to carry out research of interest to Environment Canada;
• increase contacts between Environment Canada researchers and Canadian universities; and
• promote training of potential candidates for possible future employment at Environment Canada.

The purpose of the Systematics Research Graduate Supplements (SRGS) is to:
• promote graduate research in systematics in Canada;
• encourage and support graduate students to carry out all or part of their research at centres of excellence in systematics research;
• maintain and strengthen the base of expertise for systematics research in Canada; and
• provide practical work experience with natural history collections within a professional setting.

The purpose of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Scholarship supplement is to foster graduate research in atmospheric and oceanographic sciences in Canada. The first supplement was initiated by Weather Research House Inc. and the second by the Canadian National Committee for the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (CNC-SCOR). Both are sponsored by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS).

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) has established the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Foreign Researchers. A limited number of promising young researchers are given the opportunity to conduct research in Japanese universities and in designated research institutions and laboratories. NSERC is responsible for selecting Canadian nominees for JSPS Fellowships.