{"id":3286,"date":"2020-04-22T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T00:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medteq.ca\/solutions-covid19-3\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:10:41","slug":"solutions-covid19-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medteq.ca\/en\/solutions-covid19-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources and call for solutions against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Resources and call for solutions against COVID-19. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) supports more than 11,000 world-class researchers from across Canada and funds their research collaborations with more than 4,000 companies. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NSERC is drawing on the expertise of natural sciences and engineering researchers and their partners across Canada to meet the challenge of this unprecedented crisis.<\/p>\n

NSERC is providing up to $15 million to foster collaborations between university researchers and the private, public and not-for-profit sectors to address the technical and research challenges related to the pandemic. Support of $50,000 for one year is now available.<\/p>\n

NSERC will process these applications on an expedited basis. Partners are not required to provide cash contributions in order to participate in the research, but must contribute to the entire research process, from conception to the use of the expertise or research results.<\/p>\n

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Purpose:<\/strong>\u00a0This program will post challenges seeking near-to-market solutions from small and medium-sized businesses (fewer than 500 staff) that need financial support from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC\u00a0IRAP) to refine and sell their product or solution to meet a\u00a0COVID-19<\/span>\u00a0related need.<\/p>\n

NRC\u00a0IRAP works with roughly 8,000 small and medium-sized businesses every year through its cross-Canada network of 255 industrial technology advisors and provides over $300\u00a0million in support to more than 3,000 technology development projects annually<\/p>\n

Through this initiative, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and Health Canada (HC) will establish a number of challenges corresponding to needs of health providers to deal with\u00a0COVID-19<\/span><\/p>\n

NRC\u00a0IRAP will partner with Innovative Solutions Canada to launch calls for proposals over the next few weeks to address challenges, fund development of solutions, and buy successful products and services needed to address\u00a0COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Innovative Solutions Canada has dedicated funding to help combat current and future outbreaks of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and other similar threats.<\/p>\n

Our program will help support the Government of Canada’s fight against COVID-19 by funding R&D and testing prototypes in real-life settings that can help protect Canadians.<\/p>\n