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WHO CAN APPLY

Eligible institutions

Only Canadian postsecondary institutions may request funding from the Indirect Costs Program.

To be eligible to receive a grant, an institution must meet the following criteria:

• It must be authorized by a provincial or territorial government to grant its own university degrees, applied degrees or postsecondary diplomas. A postsecondary educational institution affiliated or federated with another degree-granting institution is accorded its own independent eligibility if it receives its operating budget directly from the provincial government (Ministry of Education or Higher Education or equivalent) and has its own board of directors.

• It must have conferred degrees during the two calendar years prior to application, or have students enrolled who will receive degrees during the calendar year of application or within the three succeeding years. The institution must provide evidence of its authority to confer degrees and evidence that it has granted (or expects to grant) degrees within the required time period.

• It must have researchers at the institution and its affiliated research hospitals or institutes who have received research funding from at least one of the three federal granting agencies in at least one of the three most recent fiscal years for which data is available.

Private postsecondary institutions

Private postsecondary institutions must be Canadian and not-for-profit. They must not receive funding through any other institution.