Research applications may focus on practical or academic career-related research in Canada and/or its application.
Learning applications may focus on the development and/or implementation of career counselling-related learning and development material in Canada. Method of delivery may be: short training courses, webinars, full program courses, training workbooks or manuals.
Individuals or organizations seeking a project partnership are invited to complete the online Letter of Intent (LOI) form with an outline of the project.
Letters of intent are reviewed regularly by staff.
If CERIC determines the project to be within its current guidelines, interests and resource priorities, the potential project partner will be invited to submit a full application via our online system.
Proposals are reviewed on an ongoing basis by staff and may include additional feedback from the one or more of its Advisory Committees. If deemed acceptable, the project partnership proposal is recommended to the CERIC Board for consideration. The Board makes decisions around proposal acceptance. Board decisions are final.
The assessment and review process may take up to 16 weeks if no further details are required. If revisions or clarification are required, the process could take longer. Email notification about the status of your application is provided at each step of the process.
In the spirit of innovation, letters of intent and Project Partnership Applications are accepted and reviewed on an ongoing basis.
Letters of intent as well as Project Partnership Applications may be submitted in English or French.
You will be notified via a system generated email that your LOI has been successfully submitted. The email will be sent to the PRINCIPAL CONTACT indicated in your LOI submission.
Once you have completed your Project Partnership Application, and hit SUBMIT, you will be notified via a system generated email that your submission has been successfully received. You will be contacted via email should further clarification to your Application be required.
You will be contacted via a system generated email as to the status of your Application, once received and reviewed. In the event that your application has been declined, there may be an opportunity to follow up with us around feedback. If your application is approved, you will also receive a formal letter with next steps. There is a Legal Agreement that needs to be negotiated and signed before formally moving forward with the project.
We do not release or make public in any way Project Partnership Applications that were not approved for support. CERIC keeps these applications on file for two years and then destroys them.
Both individuals and organizations can apply for CERIC support. Applicants can be non-profit organization(s) which need not be charitable organization(s), an individual or group of individuals, a private company, or a combination or collaboration of any of the above. CERIC’s mandate is within Canada, and funded projects must involve a Canadian partner and show impact within Canada. International collaborations are welcome with a significant Canadian component.
Yes, we have a set of guidelines that highlight our parameters for reasonable expectations for the purposes of a CERIC Project Partnership when working with individuals or for-profit organizations.
Guidelines for Working with For Profit Organizations
Yes, we have created a set of Project Partner Marketing Guidelines to support you in successfully publicizing the outcomes and promoting the resources produced through the project.
Each Project Partnership Application is reviewed based upon its own merit. Therefore, there are no preset guidelines around support levels. We encourage you to be innovative and collaborative.
rom time to time, topical or thematic areas may be identified. However, we encourage applicants to submit their Project Partnership Application based on need and impact.
The following priority areas have been identified:
- Career practitioning with social and economic impact
Impact of career services on policy and programs - New emerging career development theories and career service models
- Shifting career mindsets and the role of career development professionals in evolving times
Yes, we have created a set of Project Partner Marketing Guidelines to support you in successfully publicizing the outcomes and promoting the resources produced through the project.
Each Project Partnership Application is reviewed based upon its own merit. Therefore, there are no preset guidelines around support levels. We encourage you to be innovative and collaborative.
From time to time, topical or thematic areas may be identified. However, we encourage applicants to submit their Project Partnership Application based on need and impact.
The following priority areas have been identified:
- Career practitioning with social and economic impact
- Impact of career services on policy and programs
- New emerging career development theories and career service models
- Shifting career mindsets and the role of career development professionals in evolving times
Funding will not necessarily be limited to these special interest areas. If you have a career-related project that promises innovation in the area of career counselling and development, please submit a Letter of Intent.
CERIC recognizes that there are no simple guidelines that can manage an approach when considering project participation and of parties’ legal obligations with respect to the IP and projects. In most general cases, CERIC need not share nor own either jointly or wholly IP arising from a project. Our preferred approach to joint exploitation of IP rights is ideally done through a licensing mechanism with our project partner owning the actual IP; this applies both during the term of the partnership and to any intended use of the IP after the partnership dissolves. Please refer to our guidelines for working with individuals or for-profit organizations which elaborates further.
Yes, we do. You can download them below as well as a sample consent statement form.
We normally ask project partners to submit periodic reports over the project lifecycle (usually an update via email). In addition, for larger or longer project, we ask may ask for interim, milestone or phase reports. For all project partnerships there is a public facing project final report – this is a report about the “doing” of the project which consists of a) Final report of the project proceedings connecting the project intent, as specified in the proposal, with the project outcome(s); b) Evaluation of the project outcomes, and c) Financial reporting.
Through our online system, project partners are notified when a report is due. Reports are submitted online.
All costs must be detailed including administrative and in-kind costs. In-kind contributions are encouraged. Projects will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Researchers are encouraged to be collaborative.
We look at this on a case-by-case basis. Models we have used in the past include: cost recovery, revenue sharing, royalty basis. We normally connect this discussion with that of intellectual property and licensing where appropriate. You are encouraged to be innovative and open to options. Please refer to our Guidelines for Working with For-Profit Organizations which presents some options for your consideration.
We want to see clarity around how the need you have identified was determined. Do a thorough literature review around your project topic. We have some initial literature searches around our funding priorities as a starting point, and some projects as well as the Canadian Career Development Researcher Database, which explores who is doing what research in the country. We suggest you Google around for similar projects or products. Is your project sufficiently unique? Are you building on existing research or other work? Who are key stakeholders in the space you are interested in? Who may be potential collaborators or partners in your project?
Our Project Partnership Application requires the submission of three (3) Letters of Support from stakeholders who share the need for the project and would be impacted by your project. It is advisable to start to look at such stakeholders early in the process.
Yes. You can contact Alexandra Manoliu, Manager, Research Initiatives who can assist you with your queries. She can be reached at alexandra@ceric.ca.