A professor is hiring a masters student from an NSERC project, which has a $16,500 per year limit. Can top-up funding come from a Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) project?
• A professor holding an NSERC Discovery project plans to hire a masters’ student and pay for $16,500 from an NSERC project, with his collaborator holding a CIHR project topping up the student’s salary from his CIHR account. Would the top up from the CIHR project be eligible? A. NCE, NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR grant funds should not be used to top up a student’s scholarship. These are all federal funds and are not to be used for top ups. NEW Q. I have a Post Doctoral student under my direction who has reached his two year limit for funding set by NSERC. However, he is presenting our work at a series of conferences so I want to extend his support. Can I continue to fund him and his travel as a Post Doctoral student while he presents our work? A. Salaries to Post Doctoral fellows are limited to two years support from the Agency. Three years support is acceptable, when justified, to attract exceptional foreign candidates. The three-year appointment must be offered up front and reported to the
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