1. PROJECT TITLE

  1. IDENTIFICATION OF PROJECT LEADER

Name / First Name / Organization / Mr./ Ms.
Department:
Number and Street:
P.O. Box / Station:
City: / Province / State:
Country: / Postal Code:
Telephone: / Email:
Signature of primaryapplicant:
Date:
Summary of Proposal for Public Release(maximum 1 page)
  • This summary will be available to the public if your proposal is funded.

Name of project leader
  1. PLANNED COMPOSITION OF THE PROJECT RESEARCH TEAM (names of all partners involved and their coordinates)

Companies or Research institutions / Name of the researchers / Title / Signatures
Industrial:
Research institutions involved:
Others:

4. PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Impact of the Project on the Canadian aerospace industry (maximum 4 pages)
  • Describe the impact of the project, demonstrating its contribution to the consolidation or significant development of the aerospace industry in Canada.
  • Ways in which the research project will help improve the sector’s competitiveness in Canada.
  • Feasibility of quickly integrating the application developed on the market (in and out the aerospace industry).
  • Description of commercial opportunities related to the project and industrial partnerships required for commercialization of the technology. Indicate the timeframe and the commercialization plan.

Environmental Innovativeness (maximum 4 pages):
List the ways in which the project is innovative and related to the environmentally aspects
  • Describe the contribution to the significant advancement of scientific or technical knowledge in the green technologies by the research project
  • Describe the current state of the art, accompanied by a short literature review
  • Describe the impact of the research project for one or more of the following themes:
-Quiet Air Transportation System
-Clean Air Transportation System
-Sustainable Air Transportation System
  • Present briefly the competencies, knowledge, experience and expertise of the leader researchers and the proposed team.
  • Enumerate why the project is innovative.
  • Expected(s) patent(s):
  • Expected publication(s):

TRL (maximum 4 pages)
  • Briefly describe the evolution of the TRL of the project from the start to the end.
  • If there is a portion of the project that is not included in the one supported by the GARDN funding, please specify.

Feasibility, Excellence of the research team and Partnership(maximum 4 pages)
  • Describe existing infrastructure and the current relationship between resources, objectives and the adequacy of the budget.
  • What is the project’s priority level for the research team?
  • The number of students who are members of the research team (give names, when possible, with level of study: M.Sc, PhD, post-doc, etc.)
  • Demonstrate that the research team has the requisite expertise and experience to complete the proposed research successfully (includes researchers’ resumes).
  • Describe the agreement, defining the collaboration mechanisms to be uses by the parties. Attach letters of reference from partners.
  • Nature of scientific collaboration and each partner’s role.
  • Nature of R&D partnership and each other partner’s role.
  • Collaboration mechanisms to be used by all partners involved.

5. Gantt-Chart

No / Tasks / Partners / Deliverables / TRL / Year 1 / Year 2 / Year 3 / Year 4
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6. BUDGET

6 a) Expenditures:

Year 1 / Year 2 / Total
Salaries and benefits
Materials, supplies and equipment
Travel
Dissemination
Technology transfer activities
Other (specify)
TOTAL

6b) Contributions:

Specify all sources of funding includingGARDN, other federal government programs and private partners and research institutions

Name of the funding partner / In-kind / Cash / Total
Amount Requested from GARDN
Industrials (to specify for each industrial involved):
Universities (to specify for each university involved):
Others sources of funding (to specify)
TOTAL

6c) Funding Distribution:

Identify all the organizations (private partners and research institutions that will receive or use funds (GARDN funds from government and matching funds from private sources) for this project:

Name of the organizations that will receive or use funds / In-kind / Cash / Total
Industrials (to specify for each industrial involved):
Universities (to specify for each university involved):
Research Centres
TOTAL
Name of project leader

Annex 1: Financial Commitments (from each organization involved in the proposal)

Annex 2:Industrial and Academic Lead Researchers Resumes (please provide the resumes)

Annex 3: Intellectual Property Agreement (please describe the steps or the mechanism to get the agreement in 6 months after the start of the project)