Lunch and Learn: NSERC’s Industrial Undergraduate Student Research Awards
NOTE: This opportunity has expired or is an event which has already taken place.
When: Thursday May 30th 2013
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Where: NATI Boardroom, 391 Empire Avenue
Join NATI TOMORROW for a lunch and learn about opportunities for undergraduate students to conduct research in your company. Individual meetings are available following the session, please contact Brittany, brittany@nati.net, if you wish to schedule a meeting.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has formed a new regional partnership with the National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) and Springboard Atlantic to help increase regional opportunities for undergraduate students to conduct research activities in Atlantic companies.
CLICK HERE for more information [PDF] about the awards, who is eligible, how students are selected, etc.
Under this new partnership, small and medium-sized Atlantic Canada companies can apply to work with undergraduate science and engineering students, on a 16-week research project and receive a reimbursement of up to $6,500 per undergraduate student ($4,500 from NSERC and $2,000 from IRAP) Springboard Atlantic will administer the reimbursements of these funds for NRC-IRAP. Students must be paid a minimum salary of $7,625 over the 16-week period.