{"id":1093,"date":"2016-06-14T15:11:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T19:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/curo\/?page_id=1093"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:30:54","slug":"research-tools-and-instruments-grants-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.carleton.ca\/coris\/funding-sources\/federal-funding\/nserc\/research-tools-and-instruments-grants-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Tools and Instruments Grants Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Research Tools and Instruments Grants Program\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"about\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The RTI grants program provides the primary avenue for university researchers in the natural sciences and engineering to obtain up to $150,000 in support for research tools and instruments with a&nbsp;<strong>net<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>cost<\/strong>&nbsp;between $7,001 and $250,000.&nbsp;<strong>Net cost<\/strong>&nbsp;is defined as the purchase cost of the equipment after any discount from the vendor and before taxes, customs and importation fees, transportation and shipping charges, and assembly and installation costs. The vendor discount must be free of conditions, restrictions or limitations (e.g., cannot be offered in exchange for services from users benefiting the vendor company). The research community is also encouraged to explore other avenues for funding research tools and instruments, including NSERC\u2019s other programs that allow the purchase of equipment as eligible expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New<\/strong>: Beginning this year (i.e., competition 2023, with a deadline of October&nbsp;2022) Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) grants applicants and co-applicants who were successful in the previous year\u2019s RTI competition are ineligible to apply for one year. Eligibility will be reinstated the following competition year. This change is being implemented to increase access to the RTI program to the largest number of eligible researchers. This decision, as well as the changes to the selection criteria for this year, are informed by the recent evaluation of the Discovery research program and the results of the gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) of the RTI program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on the program, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/Professors-Professeurs\/RTII-OIRI\/RTI-OIR_eng.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About The RTI grants program provides the primary avenue for university researchers in the natural sciences and engineering to obtain up to $150,000 in support for research tools and instruments with a&nbsp;net&nbsp;cost&nbsp;between $7,001 and $250,000.&nbsp;Net cost&nbsp;is defined as the purchase cost of the equipment after any discount from the vendor and before taxes, customs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":539,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-1093","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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