SOSCIP - Community Fellowship - Advancing Equity, Diversity & Inclusion through Collaborative Projects
Sponsor
SOSCIP Smart Computing for Innovation
Description
SOSCIP accelerates the adoption of transformative technology through academic-industry partnerships that harness advanced computing to drive innovation. Through the SOSCIP Community Fellowship [1], we encourage innovators & entrepreneurs from equity-seeking & equity-deserving groups to realize their dreams and ambitions via access to world-class computing platforms & collaboration opportunities with Ontario’s elite colleges, universities, and businesses.
The SOSCIP Community Fellowship is $10,000 awarded to the Academic PI of a successful SOSCIP application. SOSCIP will award four Community Fellowships through a competitive process.
SOSCIP will waive the access fees for each application that meets all standard SOSCIP eligibility criteria and successfully passes review. The award is to be only used for project-related HQP salaries.
Special Notes
Please note that research activities carried out in the context of COVID-19 need to adhere to the University of Guelph COVID-19 research principles, policies, guidelines and processes as they may be updated from time to time and communicated on the Office of Research web-page [2].
Deadlines
If College-level review is required, your College will communicate its earlier internal deadlines.
| Type | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Internal Deadline | Please submit your proposal, along with an OR-5 Form to research.services@uoguelph.ca [3] | |
External Deadline |
How to Apply
Standard SOSCIP project requirements apply. [4] In addition:- Applicants and/or their team members must self-identify as a part of an equity-seeking and equity-deserving group** and/or position their proposed SOSCIP project to address issues related to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.
- Projects must be 6 to 12 months.
- There must be a college, masters, PhD or post-doctoral fellow on the project team.