NSERC Discovery Grants

• Review NSERC instructions for completing an NOI
• Prepare your Canadian Common CV (CCV), which is required at the NOI stage. See CCV instructions and help manual
• Schedule a one-on-one consultation with the SPARC team to review your draft NOI, or work with a grant facilitator in your faculty
• Attend an NSERC webinar on submitting an NOI (details TBA for each competition)

An NOI must be received for every application to the Discovery Grant program. Late NOIs are not accepted, nor are revisions to NOIs once they have been submitted.

• Review instructions to submit an NOI

• Review NSERC's application instructions
• Attend an NSERC Q&A session
• Consult SPARC's application guide (CWL required)
• Attend a workshop or round table with UBC members of the evaluation panels
• Schedule a one-on-one consultation with the SPARC team (limited availability, first-come, first-served)

NSERC must receive the application before 5:00 p.m. Pacific on the deadline date.

See relevant ORS application procedures and internal deadlines for your campus to ensure administrative review and timely submission: Vancouver | Okanagan

• Information Centre: FAQs, evaluation indicators and the peer review manual 
• Resource videos: Tips on applying and demystifying the review process
• Program overview: program objectives, evaluation and application processes
• List of evaluation groups
• Discovery Grant peer review manual (2024-2025)
• Policy and guidelines on the assessment of contributions to research and training
• Guidelines for the preparation and review of applications in engineering and the applied sciences, specifically researcher excellence and proposal merit
• Guidelines for the preparation and review of applications in interdisciplinary research
• Guidelines for considering equity, diversity and inclusion in applications
• Discovery Grant competition statistics