Added criteria to “Final Report”, which should:

• Not be a technical report; and
• Not exceed five pages in total.

Specified eligibility for applying to a CGS M/PGS M:

• You must not have previously taken up an NSERC PGS A, PGS M, IPS 1, or a CGS M for the program of study to which you are currently applying for funding.

A new section has been added “Where can you hold your scholarship?”:

• You may take up your PGS M or PGS D at any eligible Canadian university. You may also take it up at any eligible foreign university, provided you have received a previous degree in the natural sciences or engineering from a Canadian university.

To be considered for this supplement, you must submit the additional following documents to the CPRC:

• a two-page (12-point font) résumé describing your career goals and academic and extracurricular activities that support your interests in poultry research; and
• a statement of endorsement from your research supervisor describing why you are particularly suitable for this award.

The program contacts for the supplement have changed as follows:

• Students enrolled in departments of computer science or electrical and computer engineering at an Alberta university should contact their department graduate student coordinator for an application.
• Students at an Alberta university who are not in the two aforementioned departments but who are supervised by an iCORE Chair, iCORE Professor or iCORE Industry Chair should contact their supervisor for an application.

You are not eligible if:

• you are currently, or were previously, employed for more than six months in an R&D position in Canadian industry after receipt of your doctoral degree.

A link to the Visiting Fellows Eligibility Criteria was added.

See Parks Canada.

In section “Use and Disclosure of Personal Information Provided to NSERC”:

• Updated paragraph concerning gender, linguistic capability, disabilities, visible minority and identification as Aboriginal.

Organization eligibility:

• Effective September 2007, not-for-profit, non-governmental organizations are eligible to participate in the Industrial R&D Fellowships and Industrial Undergraduate Student Research Awards programs. All eligibility criteria apply, except the requirement to operate on a for-profit basis.
• The eligibility criteria for organizations seeking approval to participate in NSERC’s Scholarship and Fellowship programs has been simplified and placed in a table format.
• The organization must not have been barred from participating in NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR or any other research funding organization programs for reasons of breach of standards of ethics or integrity (financial or scientific misconduct).

Students and fellows eligibility:

• To be eligible for any scholarship or fellowship program, you must not have been barred from applying to NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR or any other research funding organization, for reasons of breach of standards of ethics or integrity (financial or scientific misconduct).

What signatures mean:

• Additional bullet reads: acknowledges and accepts that NSERC reserves the right to follow-up with the applicant to validate information that is provided in applications.

In the “Academic Background” section:

• The section can now accommodate up to six past degree programs.
• Applicants should include programs if they are currently enrolled in a fall program, in the year of application. However, they should not include programs that they have not yet started.
• For degree programs you have completed, provide the date on which all requirements of the degree were met (not the convocation date). This includes your thesis defence, corrections, and deposition of thesis.

Appendix 3:

• Updated the information about the use and disclosure of personal information provided to NSERC, specifically concerning gender, designated groups and language capability.
• In the “Consent from the Applicant” section, removed the British Chevening Athlone-Vanier Engineering Fellowships Supplement.