National Science Foundation Call for proposals: Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)

This is a joint initiative between the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Recognizing the potential for international collaboration to accelerate materials research and education objectives, the NSF encourages bilateral cooperation between US and Canadian academic researchers.

The DMREF program offers a unique opportunity for Canadian academic researchers to team up with their US colleagues to build interdisciplinary teams of researchers working synergistically to build the fundamental knowledge base needed to advance the design and development of materials in pursuit of the following goals:

• Unify the Materials Innovation Infrastructure (MII), a framework of integrating advanced modelling, computational and experimental tools, and quantitative data
• Harness the power of materials data
• Educate, train, and connect the materials research and development workforce

Through a lead agency model, the US Principal Investigator (PI) will submit a single collaborative proposal on behalf of the research team, which will undergo a review process by NSF, the lead agency. In parallel, the eligible participating Canadian researchers on the team must submit one simplified application to NSERC. Please refer to the Apply section for more details.

Please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca for more information.