Talent Recruitment Fund

ByMaurice

Amount:

$100,000.00

Type of Program:

Award

Description:

Talent Recruitment Fund is intended to help institutions recruit or retain promising early stage researchers into faculty / independent researcher positions. This award is intended to foster excellence in applied research, and to support those research programs with the potential for significant economic impact (direct or indirect) for the province of NB.  

Comments on Funding:

The minimum award size is $30,000 and the maximum award size is $100,000. NBIF expects the normal award size to be $55,000 and the institution will need to justify any deviation away from this normal.

When It Ends:

Ongoing

Deadline:

Rolling deadline

Eligibility:

The candidate for the award:

  • must not yet have agreed to take up the role for which the institution is applying, 
  • may or may not already be working at the institution and may occupy the position that the award is requested for - only if they occupy the position in a temporary capacity. 

The applicant must:

  • be an institution,
  • retain or recruit promising early stage researchers into faculty / independent researcher positions,
  • apply for a role that is: 
  • full-time and physically based in nb,
  • at least 3 years in duration, and with a reasonable expectation that the role will become permanent in the future,
  • a faculty position. post-doctoral fellowships are not eligible (for universities),
  • the primary purpose of the role is to conduct research (and not, for example, to teach),
  • permits the individual to engage in independent research activities that are not under the direction of another researcher, 

Application Steps:

1

Applicants should apply through the NBIF Research Portal 

Documentation Needed: 

​Applicants must submit the application form.

Other Things to Note:

The award end date is 2 years later, at which point all the funding must be exhausted. Any unspent funding remaining after the award end date must be returned to NBIF.  

Program Contact:

​Talent Recruitment Fund - NBIF

​Talent Recruitment Fund - Application Portal​​​

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