UNAPEC informa: Convocatoria de becas abierta_Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program _Fecha límite: 31 de octubre 2018

La Embajada de Canadá en la República Dominicana anuncia que está abierta la convocatoria para Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) Program

Fecha límite para que las instituciones presenten sus  nominaciones al programa Vanier:

31 de octubre 2018

About your scholarship The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program is administered by the Vanier-Banting Secretariat (the Secretariat) on behalf of Canada's three federal granting agencies. The Secretariat is housed within the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The Government of Canada launched the Vanier CGS program in 2008 to strengthen Canada's ability to attract and retain world-class doctoral students and establish Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and higher learning. Vanier Scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and/or engineering and health. More information relating to the governance of the Vanier CGS program Updating your contact information If you are moving or changing your contact information, email your new information to vanier@cihr-irsc.gc.ca so we can stay in touch with you and keep you informed about the program, events, etc. Payment of the award The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) are administered by the Canadian institution at which the doctoral student holds the scholarship. Vanier Scholars should refer to the Tri-Agency Research Training Award Holder's Guide for regulations governing the use of Vanier CGS funds. Start date Once notified of the results, Vanier Scholars may take up their Vanier CGS on May 1, 2019, September 1, 2019 or January 1, 2020. The start date chosen must not overlap with any prior federal granting agency funding received, and the Vanier scholar must be registered for full-time studies at the nominating Canadian institution as of the Vanier CGS start date. Change of institution The Vanier CGS must be taken up at the institution that nominated the scholar for the Vanier CGS. If the Vanier Scholar wishes to study at another institution, they must decline or terminate the Vanier CGS. Scope Up to 166 scholarships are awarded annuallyFootnote 1; A total of up to 500 scholarships are active at any time. Value $50,000 per year Duration 3 years (non-renewable) Scholarships are distributed equally between the three federal granting agencies:

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Selection Criteria

• Academic Excellence
• Research Potential
• Leadership (potential and demonstrated ability)

Timelines

July – November 2018	Applicants seek a nominating institution, prepare and submit application package.
Internal Deadline (varies)	Deadline to submit application to the nominating institution. Contact nominating institution for specific date.
October 31, 2018 (20:00 ET)	Deadline for institutions to submit nominations to the Vanier CGS program.
November 2018 – March 2019	Review and evaluation of nominations.
Early April 2019	Anticipated notification of results.Nominees will be notified by email when the results are available on ResearchNet.
May 1, 2019, September 1, 2019 or January 1, 2020	Payments begin.

  Eligibility Confirm that you and your nominating institution meet all the criteria below before you apply for a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Vanier CGS). Nominations that do not meet all of the eligibility criteria will not be accepted. Candidate eligibility Citizenship Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada and foreign citizens are eligible to be nominated for a Vanier CGS. To be considered for a Vanier CGS, you must:

• be nominated by only one Canadian institution, which must have received a Vanier CGS quota;
• be pursuing your first doctoral degree (including joint undergraduate/graduate research program such as: MD/PhD, DVM/PhD, JD/PhD - if it has a demonstrated and significant research component). Note that only the PhD portion of a combined degree is eligible for funding;
• intend to pursue, in the summer semester or the academic year following the announcement of results, full-time doctoral (or a joint graduate program such as: MD/PhD, DVM/PhD, JD/PhD) studies and research at the nominating institution; Note that only the PhD portion of a combined degree is eligible for funding;
• not have completed more than 20 months of doctoral studies as of May 1, 2019 (see calculating months of doctoral studies below);
• have achieved a first-class average, as determined by your institution, in each of the last two years of full-time study or equivalent. Candidates are encouraged to contact the institution for its definition of a first-class average; and
• must not hold, or have held, a doctoral-level scholarship or fellowship from CIHR, NSERC or SSHRC to undertake or complete a doctoral degree.

Eligibility of Degree Programs

• Doctoral awards are tenable only in degree programs that have a significant research component. The research component must be a requirement for completion of the program, and is considered to be significant original, autonomous research that leads to the completion of a dissertation, major scholarly publication, performance, recital and/or exhibit that is merit reviewed at the institutional level. Clinically-oriented programs of study, including clinical psychology, are also eligible programs if they have a significant research component, as described above.

Note: ResearchNet will only allow the creation of one application per applicant. Applicants should only seek a nomination from the institution at which they want to study and are advised to discuss their decision with the nominating institution before they submit the application through ResearchNet. Calculating months of doctoral studies All prior doctoral-level studies, regardless of discipline, are considered in the evaluation of eligibility, and are considered to be continuous, full-time, and uninterrupted unless otherwise confirmed by the institution (including the summer months, unless on official leave). Students who studied on a part-time basis, or who interrupted their studies with their university’s official approval, must outline the dates of interruption or part-time study in the Special Circumstances attachment. The Vanier-Banting Secretariat will start all calculation of the number of months completed at the beginning of the first term of PhD with the following exception:

If the Candidate	...then the secretariat will:
Is registered in a combined Master’s /PhD program	Remove 12 months from the original PhD enrolment date
Is registered in a direct-entry doctoral program (i.e., has not ever enrolled in, or earned, a Master’s degree)	Remove 12 months from the original PhD enrolment date
Has been accelerated from a Master’s degree into a Doctoral program without obtaining the Master’s degree	Remove 12 months from the original Master’s enrolment date
Is enrolled in a joint undergraduate/graduate research degree program	Only count time spent undertaking PhD work (see notes).

Notes:

1. The Vanier-Banting Secretariat (the Secretariat) will count two months of part-time study as one month of full-time study.
2. The secretariat considers each of these programs to be mutually exclusive. No more than one of the above exceptions can be applied to each nomination.
3. All interruptions, delays, part-time studies and undergraduate studies undertaken as part of a joint undergraduate/graduate degree program must be outlined in the special circumstances attachment.

Example: If you were completing full-time doctoral studies as of January 1, 2018, with no interruptions during this period, the Secretariat will consider you as having completed 16 months of doctoral studies as of May 1, 2019. If, during this period, you were on leave from your program for four months, the Secretariat will consider you as having completed 12 months of doctoral studies. If, in addition to having taken one semester off, you had been registered part-time for one semester (i.e., four months), the Secretariat will consider you as having completed 10 months of doctoral studies. Nominating institution The nominating institution must have received a Vanier CGS quota. Eligibility to hold a Vanier CGS Without exception, the Vanier CGS is tenable only at the eligible Canadian institution that submitted the nomination. To hold the Vanier CGS, the candidate must:

• be registered^{Footnote 1} unconditionally as a full-time student at the nominating Canadian institution and be pursuing a doctoral degree (or combined MA/PhD, MSc/PhD, or MD/PhD); and
• not hold a faculty appointment concurrently with a Vanier Scholarship unless they arrange for a leave of absence from the appointment
• remain enrolled and demonstrate continued satisfactory progress in their doctoral program.
• not hold, or have held, a doctoral-level scholarship or fellowship from CIHR, NSERC or SSHRC to undertake or complete a doctoral degree.
• not be concurrently holding any other SSHRC, NSERC or CIHR training award (note: Michael Smith Foreign Studies Supplement excepted).

Part-time studies A Vanier CGS may be held by students who are registered part-time because of a disability or family responsibilities. For this purpose, disability is defined as "a functional limitation resulting from a physical, sensory or mental impairment, which, for an indefinite period, affects the ability of the student to perform the activities necessary to participate fully in his or her learning" and family responsibilities is defined as "the primary responsibility for providing personal care to a dependent family member (e.g., pre-school children, infirm spouse or parent) which affects the ability of the student to perform the activities necessary to participate fully in his or her learning". For eligible part-time students, the Vanier CGS will be equivalent to full-time funding spread over a longer period of time. Canadian federal government employees Canadian federal government employees are eligible to hold a scholarship only if an unpaid leave of absence is taken (no salary or special allowances permitted). Multiple applications Eligible candidates may apply to both the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship program and other agency-specific doctoral-level scholarship/fellowships programs (whether to the same or a different federal granting agency) in the same academic year, provided that the research proposed in each application falls within the mandate of the federal granting agency to which the application is submitted. For more information, please refer to Identify area of research. Note: since eligibility, evaluation criteria and competition deadlines are different; applications submitted to Vanier CGS are not considered in agency-specific doctoral award competitions. You must apply to each program individually. Candidates who are successful in both competitions will have to choose which award to accept. Footnotes Features The Vanier CGS program aims to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by supporting students who demonstrate both leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and/or engineering and health. Footnotes Footnote 1 Should more funds become available, additional scholarships may be awarded. Return to footnote 1 referrer   Governance The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program is administered by the Vanier-Banting Secretariat (the Secretariat) on behalf of Canada's three granting agencies (CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC). The Secretariat is housed within the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The Secretariat is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Vanier CGS program and provides administrative support to the selection committees responsible for application review, in collaboration with the selection committee chairs. The Secretariat reports to the Tri-Agency programs (TAPs) management committee, which itself reports to the TAPs steering committee. The Chairs of the selection committee's report to the steering committee annually following the selection committee review meetings. The TAPs steering committee reports to the deputy ministers of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Health Canada. Tri-Agency programs management committee The TAPs Management Committee's mandate consists of operational oversight of:

• The organization, implementation and continuing administration of the programs administered by the Tri-Agency Secretariats, acting on authority delegated from the TAPs steering committee.
• Advising the TAPs steering committee by providing recommendations for its consideration on matters of program design, competitions, post award monitoring, evaluation and audit, communications, research policy, reporting and national tri-agency policy.

It is composed of:

• the executive director of the Secretariat;
• CIHR's associate vice-president, Research and Knowledge Translation Portfolio;
• NSERC's vice-president, Research Grants and Scholarships Programs;
• SSHRC's vice-president, Research Capacity Directorate;
• Health Canada's executive director, Science Policy Directorate; and,
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada's director general, Coordination Branch, Science and Innovation Sector.

Tri-Agency programs steering committee The TAPs steering committee's mandate is to provide strategic oversight of the program, including:

• its design and delivery
• performance management, post award monitoring, evaluation
• communications and reporting activities
• accountability (governance structure)
• control activities
• high-order governance for the suite of Tri-Agency programs, including the foresight of longer-term developments that impact the S&T environment and may affect the demand for or contribution of Tri-Agency programs

The members of the TAPs steering committee are the presidents of each of the three federal granting agencies (CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC), and the deputy ministers of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and Health Canada. Performance Measurement and Reporting The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) are committed to demonstrating results to Canadians for the funds invested through the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program. Therefore, processes for monitoring progress and appropriate use of funds, as well as for performance measurement and program evaluation, are in place. Vanier Scholars will be expected to:

• contribute to the review and evaluation of the program and associated policies and processes by participating in evaluation studies, surveys, workshops and audits.
• provide data and/or reports upon request, to assess progress and outcomes during and after the tenure of the award.
• contribute to trajectory studies to assess long-term impact of the program.

Vanier Scholars must complete an end-of-award report in order to measure the performance of the program. This will also be used, with their consent, to highlight "success stories". The Vanier Banting Secretariat routinely publishes the name, host institution, and the title of the research proposal of Vanier Scholars on our website. Vanier Scholars are also encouraged to showcase their achievements related to the Vanier Scholarship. Let us know and we can promote them through our social media sites. The names of Vanier Scholars and other basic award information will be published on the Vanier CGS website. For more on the posting of, and access to, information on Government of Canada websites, refer to the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act. Updating your contact information If you are moving or changing your contact information, email your new information to vanier@cihr-irsc.gc.ca so we can stay in touch with you and keep you informed about the program, events, etc.