Award deadlines & details

Synergy Awards for Innovation

Deadline: April 15

Additional information

The Synergy Awards for Innovation honour outstanding university-industry research and development (R&D) partnerships in the natural sciences and engineering. Since 1995, the awards have showcased the benefits of pooling university and industry resources to make the most of Canadian research excellence and Canadian industrial expertise.

Winners of the Synergy Awards show effective use of human, technical and financial resources, and demonstrate a lasting partnership between university and industrial collaborators, with tangible commercial results.

The universities each receive a $200,000 NSERC research grant. Industrial partners each get the opportunity to hire an NSERC Industrial R&D Fellow for two years (with NSERC bearing the cost of the minimal industrial contribution of $10,000/year in addition to the standard NSERC contribution of $30,000/year), regardless of the number of partners on the nomination.