Application/nomination instructions

Confirm that you meet the Vanier CGS program's eligibility criteria. Applications that do not meet all the eligibility criteria will not be accepted.

Select your institution and inform the faculty of graduate studies of your intent to apply to the Vanier CGS program.

Make sure you have the following or click the links to register:

• ResearchNet account – a web-based application tool and funding opportunity/decision database that is used by the Vanier CGS program.
• CIHR PIN: a unique personal identifier required from CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC applicants when applying to this program
• CCV account – a web-based tool that allows you to manage your CV data in a single repository and generate CVs as needed for all member organizations.
• EDI Self-ID Questionnaire - Completing the Self-ID Questionnaire is mandatory for all applicants. The Self-ID Questionnaire must be completed prior to the deadline.

Personal information submitted during the application process will be made available to the three federal granting councils' personnel for the purposes of future program design and delivery, results measurement and reporting. This includes, but is not limited to, information provided through applicant CVs, and other application documents required by this program.

For further information about the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Self-identification Questionnaire and the use of personal information, see the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Self-Identification Questionnaire Frequently Asked Questions.

You must create a Vanier-Banting Academic CV on the Canadian Common CV (CCV) website and link it to your ResearchNet application.

Please read these instructions carefully to see important details about your CCV, including input limits: Completing the Common CV - Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships.

Failure to follow these instructions may negatively impact the evaluation of your application and could lead to it being withdrawn.

The CCV website will validate your CV (Vanier-Banting Academic template) and provide you with a confirmation number. You must input this confirmation number into your Vanier CGS application form in ResearchNet in order to link your CCV.

Notes:

• Education: Include all previous institution studies and their relevant dates (including incomplete degrees).
• The data you enter may not be displayed in the CCV in the proper chronological order.
• Contributions: Updates to this section will not be accepted after the deadline date.

Note: During peak periods, there can be a delay for the validation of the CCV confirmation number by ResearchNet. It is highly recommended that applicants enter their CCV confirmation number in their application well in advance of the competition deadline.

To create a Vanier CGS application:

• Login to your ResearchNet account.
• Click on "Find Funding Opportunities" and select "Apply for Funding" to display a list of the currently available funding opportunities.
• From the "Actions" menu on the right-hand side, select "Apply to this Opportunity" to access the main Vanier CGS application menu. This menu lists a series of tasks that must be completed before you are able to submit your application.

This task serves to determine which selection committee will be assigned to your application.

• If you choose "health", your application will be reviewed by CIHR's multidisciplinary selection committee.
• If you choose "natural sciences and/or engineering", your application will be reviewed by NSERC's multidisciplinary selection committee.
• If you choose "social sciences and humanities", your application will be reviewed by SSHRC's multidisciplinary selection committee.

For more information on which agency to submit your application to, refer to Selecting the Appropriate Federal Granting Agency.

If you are applying to SSHRC, consider the information found on SSHRC's website.

If you are applying to NSERC, we encourage you to consult the Addendum to the guidelines for the eligibility of applications related to health, which has additional information and specific examples relating to subject matter.

The choice of area of research will determine the values available in the drop-down list. If your research does not fall under any of the listed categories, choose the closest research area.

Be sure to add the field of research to the keywords section of the application form.

If you aren't sure of the most appropriate field of research, please send an email to vanier@cihr-risc.gc.ca with a one-page summary of the proposed research to get a recommendation; this process can take up to 5 business days.

Please note that it remains the applicant's responsibility to select the field of research that best suits their application. Nominations submitted to the incorrect agency may be withdrawn from the competition

In this task, you will enter:

• information about yourself (including CIHR PIN, if not auto populated);
• information about your nominating institution;
• the confirmation number of the CV you created in the Canadian Common CV (CCV);
• supporting documents:
  • Personal Leadership Statement
  • Leadership reference letters
  • Research contributions
  • Special circumstances (if applicable)

Content of documents: For questions related to the content of the following attachments, applicants are encouraged to consult with their faculty or department and/or supervisor at the nominating Canadian institution.

Attachment: Personal Leadership Statement (maximum 2 pages for English applications and a maximum of 2.5 pages for French applications)

(must follow the specifications found in the instructions provided in the Ensure attached documents meet presentation standards section)

In response to evidence demonstrating that documents written in French require approximately 20% more space than similar documents in English, a Personal Leadership Statement fully written in French will be allowed an additional 0.5 page. This provision will ensure an equitable amount of space for the Personal Leadership Statement written in either official language.

Note: Any pages over the allotted page limit for the Personal Leadership Statement (maximum of 2 pages for English applications and maximum of 2.5 pages for French applications) will be removed with no further notification to the Applicant.

This document should present to the committee a clear statement of what personal experiences have shaped your doctoral research.

Before crafting your Personal Leadership Statement, take a moment to review the instructions for the selection committee on evaluating this criterion.

When writing your Personal Leadership Statement, consider the following:

• Leadership can take many forms. Be sure to outline not just your accomplishments, but how those accomplishments required you to leverage your leadership skills to achieve your goals. This description should go beyond a simple list of accomplishments. Outline for the committee the ways in which these accomplishments demonstrate your leadership abilities and skills.
• When outlining leadership in volunteerism, excellence in sports or the arts, employment in leadership positions, and other areas, be sure to outline how you have gone above and beyond the expected norms in order to overcome obstacles, foster others, spearhead change, or otherwise demonstrate leadership.
  • for example: how have you created opportunities beyond those that were immediately available to you (due to employment, volunteerism, or circumstance);
  • The selection committee does not consider simply participating in sports, arts, volunteering and employment in leadership positions as demonstrating leadership in and of themselves.
• How have you fostered your ability to lead others, and how have you leveraged that skill?
• Define your career goals and trajectory, and outline for the committee the ways in which you have created opportunities for yourself and others, how you have overcome obstacles to your vision, and how your PhD research, knowledge dissemination and mentorship activities will help accomplish those goals.
• What led you to doctoral research? How have your life experiences shaped your academic, research, and leadership choices, challenges, and successes?
• How has your life trajectory driven you to share and disseminate your research?
• How does your nominating institution provide an environment that nurtures your leadership skills?
• If leadership opportunities in your research environment were not available to you, address them here.

You are encouraged to explain any personal circumstances (if applicable) to allow for a fair assessment of your application. Reviewers are instructed to give careful consideration to, and be sensitive to the impact of, personal circumstances when assessing the application.

Your academic transcript, your CCV, and your reference letters will provide details of your academic and research-related commitments and accomplishments, but this essay gives you the opportunity to present the overarching narrative about your life, leadership accomplishments, and research goals.

Attachment: Two Leadership reference letters (maximum 2 pages each)

(must follow the specifications found in the instructions provided in the Presentation standards for documents section)

The leadership reference letters should ideally be written by references who know you in a non-academic capacity and can speak to how your personal trajectory reflects the leadership evaluation criterion. In order to facilitate this, you may wish to share your Personal Leadership Statement with these letter writers. Leadership reference letters should not be written by family members or close friends.

Candidates are responsible for acquiring these letters and uploading them to ResearchNet in PDF format. They cannot be submitted by the letter-writer via ResearchNet.

Ask your leadership reference letter writers to respond to the following:

Referencing the student's life and research trajectory, provide an assessment of demonstrated and potential leadership ability. Because there is no opportunity for the committee to interview nominees, elaborate on how the candidate has gone above and beyond the opportunities presented in order to achieve a goal, contribute to their community, or how they have taken on responsibility for others. Note that high achievement, while admirable, does not necessarily constitute leadership. Be sure therefore to provide context for the committee that illuminates how the candidate's participation in activities (be they volunteer, work, sport, art, or any other participation) goes above and beyond active participation and becomes leadership. Referees are also encouraged to highlight how the student has overcome challenges related to equity, diversity and inclusion considerations in their path as a leader.

Notes: Because the referee assessments (task 8 – identify referees) provide your academic references with the opportunity to comment on your leadership skills, it is not recommended that you ask the same person to write more than one of the letters that are required as part of your nomination package.

Leadership reference letters must be attached one at a time. The field to upload the second leadership reference letter will only appear after the first is in place.

These letters should be provided on letterhead (where available) and must contain a signature.

Each letter must be signed by an individual. Letters containing more than one author will not be forwarded to the selection committee for consideration.

Attachment: Research contributions (maximum 1 page)

(must follow the specifications found in the instructions provided in the Presentation standards for documents section)

The agencies have signed DORA which recognizes that research contributions are not limited to published journal articles but include a broader range of contributions (e.g., research publications, reports, posters, abstract, monographs, presentations, creative outputs, books, guidelines, dataset, code, tools, software and commercialized products, protocols, knowledge mobilization activities) and impacts (e.g., influence on policy and practice, societal outcomes, distinctions-based, meaningful and culturally safe research).

From your research-related contributions, choose up to five that you judge to be the most significant and relevant to your research proposal.

Research-related contributions can refer to any of the entries listed in the following sections of your CCV:

• Publications
• Artistic contribution (to be evaluated according to established disciplinary standards, as well as creative and/or artistic merit), such as exhibitions, performances, publications, presentations, and film, video and audio recordings.
• Presentations
• Interviews and media relations
• Intellectual property

For each of these contributions listed:

• describe your role in the research, including by clarifying your contribution to collaborative research and to the actual writing of joint publications (e.g., for each multi-authored publication, define your role in the publication and indicate your percent contribution to the team effort);
• discuss the reasons for selecting the medium (e.g., journal article, conference presentation) for mobilizing the research, if appropriate;
• indicate any collaboration with other researchers and/or with other knowledge users from outside academia;
• discuss the significance, relevance and impact of your work in relation to the social sciences and humanities, to the natural sciences and engineering, or to health-related fields and processes, if appropriate;
• describe their significance in terms of demonstrating your research leadership and sphere of influence at the institutional level and beyond; and
• discuss the impact and importance of these activities in terms of your career aspirations.

Reviewers are asked to assess research excellence broadly and to avoid using journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research publications. As stated in DORA, the "scientific content of a paper is much more important than publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which it was published".

Special circumstances (maximum 1 page - optional)

(must follow the specifications found in the instructions provided in the Presentation standards for documents section)

The Secretariat acknowledges that certain circumstances may legitimately affect an applicant's record of research achievement. Applicants are encouraged to explain any circumstances (including when gender, race, diversity, ability, sexuality, health disparities, educational access, etc.) that have impacted their academic trajectory in order to allow for a fair assessment of their research achievement.

Committee members are entrusted with the responsibility to assess the impact and significance of research contribution while taking into account the impacts of career interruptions as well as interpersonal, community, and career responsibilities.

Applicants can describe circumstances such as administrative responsibilities, health problems, family responsibilities, disabilities, trauma and/or loss, cultural or community responsibilities, socio-economic context, pandemic impact or other circumstances (for example, the time necessary to complete a monograph or research project, file a patent, or academia and/or career advancement, scientific research, other research, dissemination of results, training, etc). They may explain any gaps in the chronology of their experience.

Include the start and end dates; the impact areas; and the reason(s) for or a brief explanation of the absence. Applicants may explain any gaps in the chronology of their experience. However, you are not required to justify circumstances when noting considerations related to personal identity considerations. Should you choose to include this information, please note that it will be reviewed by selection committee members.

If the potential or current supervisor is unable to provide the applicant with a referee assessment, you may use this section to briefly provide an explanation.

Note: In order to maintain equitable application requirements for all nominees, no information other than that outlined above will be forwarded to the committee. Any information that does not conform to the requirements will be removed with no further notification to the applicant.

Applicants should refer their selected referees to the Information for Referees section for useful tips.

Applicants are responsible for providing their referees the documents necessary for them to write their respective letters. ResearchNet does not grant the referees access to view the application or its attachments.

This task collects information on the two referees whose assessments will accompany your application. When referees are identified, the language specified will determine the language in which they will receive their assessment form; assessments must be completed in either English or French.

Applicants are encouraged to consider the full range of potential referees (e.g., from different institutions, with varied research expertise for multi-disciplinary applications, with appropriate expertise for applications involving and engaging with Indigenous communities), and counselled to prioritize asking for one letter of reference from the supervisor of your present research project.

These assessments should come from people under whom the applicant has trained and/or who have had a good opportunity to assess their academic excellence, research potential and leadership skill. It is at the discretion of candidates to choose people they would like to seek an assessment from, keeping in mind that there is no opportunity within the application to provide a justification for your choices. Be aware of the importance accorded to your choice as referee assessments provided are considered by the Selection Committee. Note that both referees are asked to be mindful of using the assessments to evaluate (versus advocate for) the application.

Because the Referee Assessments provide your academic references with the opportunity to also comment on your leadership skills, it is not recommended that you ask the same person to submit a Referee Assessment and a Leadership Reference letter (see Task 7 – Identify Participants, subtask Leadership Reference Letters)

Applicants should contact their referees to ask for an assessment well in advance of the application deadline.

For each referee, applicants are required to enter the name and contact information and to set the Assessment Required Deadline^{Footnote *} date by which the assessments must be submitted through ResearchNet. ResearchNet will then send two email requests to the referees providing them with a secure link for completing their assessment. Referees must complete the various sections of the assessment online. They will not be able to upload documents to ResearchNet or submit their assessments offline.

It is the applicant's responsibility to follow up with referees to ensure the assessments are submitted in sufficient time prior to the applicant's deadline. Applicants will be able to follow the status of the assessment under this task and are encouraged to follow up with the referees if the task is not completed shortly before the deadline.

Applicants will not be able to submit their application until the referees have submitted their assessment and this task is completed.

If you have solicited a letter of reference from someone who informs you that they cannot meet the institution's deadline, you may delete that referee from your list and add a new referee to your list.

Once an assessment is submitted, it will automatically be attached to your application. Applicants do not have access to the content of the assessment submitted by referees.

These letters are considered confidential and are governed by the Access to Information Act and Privacy Act, and the content of the assessment submitted by the referees cannot be seen by applicants during the competition. Upon request, the applicant will have a right of access to the content of the referee's assessment following publication of the results.

This task collects information on any degrees, qualifications, certificates and/or licenses in progress, as well as on the degree for which support is being requested. Include all previous institution studies with their relevant dates (including incomplete degrees) in the common CCV.

To complete this task, you must indicate whether there is a degree in progress and specify at least one degree for which support is being requested.

This task has four sub-tasks to collect information related to your research project.

• project overview
• project details
• project descriptors
• attachments

Project overview

The Title of Research Proposal is used by the Vanier CGS program to identify your research project (maximum of 640 characters).

The Lay Title is used to inform the public and Parliament about the valuable research supported through public funds. Provide a title that is in a language clear to the general public (maximum of 200 characters).

The Lay Abstract will be used for promotional purposes outside the research community to inform the public and Parliament about the valuable research supported through public funds.

Reminder: Please add your supervisor's name at the beginning of the Lay Abstract as follows: supervisor's name, institution name. If yet to be determined, please mention "to be determined".

Describe the research proposal in a way that is accessible to a lay audience. Using simple terms, briefly describe the nature of the work to be done. Indicate why and to whom the research is important, any anticipated outcomes, and how the research will contribute to your field. It should be written in non-technical terms that can be clearly understood by non-specialist reviewers/readers with various areas of expertise (i.e., minimal academic terminology, abbreviation, and references to methodology). (maximum of 2000 characters).

The selection committee will use this section to help evaluate your communication skills, which can contribute both to your Leadership score and your Research Potential.

NOTE: Should you flag your research as involving Indigenous communities, your application will be assessed by its academic merit as usual, with additional review on the Indigenous research component to ensure that it fulfills the pillars for meaningful and culturally safe research engaging with Indigenous Peoples.

See the "Research respectfully involving and engaging Indigenous communities" section of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion page for more information on how Indigenous research will be reviewed.

Details

Enter information on your Nominating Institution for proposed doctoral studies, your expected Start Date to take up the award and the Language in which your Research Proposal is written. Selecting your nominating institution will display the institution's internal deadline.

Certification requirements

If the application is selected for funding, the necessary certification requirements must be met in accordance with policies on ethical conduct of research. Relevant policies:

• Agreement on the Administration of Agency Grants and Awards by Research Institutions

Indicate the certification requirements as appropriate for your proposed research.

For the question, "CIHR must review proposed projects against the requirements of the Impact Assessment Act (IAA). To this end please indicate whether any phase of the proposed research will take place on "federal lands" as defined under IAA, which includes land owned by the Government of Canada, including reserves created under the Indian Act; or outside of Canada?" trainees are exempt and should answer "No".

For the question, "In order to carry out the proposed research in this application, is an exemption from Health Canada under Section 56 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act required?" trainees are exempt and should answer "No".

Does this application propose research involving Indigenous Peoples?

Indicate if the application proposes research involving Indigenous Peoples. This information will be used for statistical purposes only.

Applicants, whose proposed research will involve First Nations, Inuk (Inuit) and Métis Peoples, must ensure to work and engage with Indigenous communities in a meaningful and culturally safe way. Please, also consult Ethics of Health Research Involving First Nations, Inuit and Métis People.

For details, please review the guidelines and resources provided in the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion page.

Are sex (biological) and/or gender (socio-cultural) considerations taken into account in this study?

Sex and Gender Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+): Indicate/Summarize how sex, gender or other identity factors (such as race, age, disability, culture, religion, etc.) are taken into account in your proposed research (from its design to the analysis of the research findings). For guidelines to sex and gender-based analysis plus (SGBA+), please review the guidelines and resources provided in the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion page. If SGBA+ is not applicable, please explain why. (limit of 2000 characters, including spaces).

Descriptors (CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC)

Provide descriptors to describe your research project, the techniques and the methodologies it will employ. Complete all subsequent fields using the drop-down menus; choose one that most closely matches your proposal.

Additional instructions:

Themes (CIHR)

Select a primary theme classification. Indicate additional theme classifications only if the substance of the application significantly overlaps more than one theme. Consult the definition of the four CIHR Themes on the CIHR website for more information.

Suggested Institutes (CIHR only)

Select a primary CIHR Institute whose research mandate is related to the application's research area(s) and objective(s). Additional Institutes should only be selected if the substance of the application significantly overlaps with the research mandate of more than one Institute.

Geographical Regions (SSHRC only)

Select geographical regions covered by or related to your research/study.

Countries (SSHRC only)

Select the countries covered by or related to your research/study.

Temporal Period (SSHRC only)

Indicate the historical period covered by your research/study

Attachments

Under this sub-task, you will attach the following documents:

• research proposal
• project references

Research proposal (maximum 2 pages including graphs and images for English applications and a maximum of 2.5 pages for French applications)

(must follow the specifications found in the instructions provided in the Presentation standards for documents section)

In support of evidence demonstrating that documents written in French require approximately 20% more space than similar documents in English, a Research Proposal fully written in French will be allowed an additional 0.5 page. This provision will ensure an equitable amount of space for the Research Proposal written in either official language.

Note: Any pages over the allotted page limit for the Research Proposal (maximum of 2 pages for English applications and maximum of 2.5 pages for French applications) will be removed with no further notification to the Applicant.

All applicants, including those in the areas of applied research, research-creation, or knowledge translation, must provide a detailed description of your proposed research project for the period during which you are to hold the Vanier CGS.

• provide background information to position your proposed research within the context of the current knowledge in the field.
• state the objectives, hypothesis, research question and the roles and responsibilities of the applicant, the supervisor and/or other collaborators in the proposed research. If you are involved in a lab, be sure to outline your specific contributions to the overarching group project.
• describe the benefit conferred by undertaking your research at the nominating institution (e.g., supervisor/departmental specialization, lab facilities, funding opportunities, support structures offered/in place).
• outline the experimental or theoretical approach to be taken (citing literature pertinent to the proposal), the methodology to be used, and the contribution of the project to the advancement of knowledge.
• provide as much detail as possible to the committee regarding projected timelines for the research, including community consultation, plans for collaboration, and knowledge translation strategies.
• state the significance of the proposed research to a field or fields in the health sciences, natural sciences and/or engineering or social sciences and/or humanities, as appropriate.
• if the output of your degree program is an artistic creation rather than a thesis, clearly indicate the research component of your proposed work. Outline the objectives of your research, the context, methodology and contribution to the advancement of knowledge.
• where applicable, address how your research complies with established research-related policies and protocols (e.g., protocols for conducting research respectfully involving and engaging the First Nations, Inuk (Inuit) and Métis Peoples of Canada; approvals for research involving the use of humans, animals or biohazards)
  • if you are proposing to conduct research that respectfully involves and engages Indigenous communities, the research proposal should reflect that you and your nominating institution are aware of and are referring to the relevant principles and protocols established for this type of research, and you must describe your experience of meaningful and culturally safe research involvement with Indigenous Peoples. If you do not have this experience, please describe how you plan to engage in meaningful and culturally safe research with Indigenous Peoples, regardless of which council's selection committee will be evaluating your nomination package.
  • if your research proposal includes interviewing human subjects, you must still address how you have / will comply with your institution's Ethics Review Board processes.
• be as specific as possible while keeping in mind that Vanier CGS selection committees are multi-disciplinary. Wherever possible, use non-technical terms and avoid jargon. Define any technical or discipline-specific terms.

You must review the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion page for more information.

Applicants whose proposed research involves and engages with Indigenous communities must ensure that it fulfills the pillars for respectful research engaging with Indigenous Peoples.

For research respectfully involving and engaging Indigenous Peoples, consult the following resources:

• Tri-Council Policy Statement 2 (2022): Chapter 9: Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada
  • From Article 9.1: Where the research is likely to affect the welfare of an Indigenous community, or communities, to which prospective participants belong, researchers shall seek engagement with the relevant community. The conditions under which engagement is required include, but are not limited to:
    • research conducted on First Nations, Inuk (Inuit) or Métis lands;
    • recruitment criteria that include Indigenous identity as a factor for the research;
    • research that seeks input from participants regarding a community's cultural heritage, artefacts, traditional knowledge or unique characteristics;
    • research in which Indigenous identity or membership in an Indigenous community is used as a variable for the purpose of analysis of the research data; and
    • interpretation of research results that will refer to Indigenous communities, peoples, language, history or culture.
• SSHRC Guidelines for the Merit Review of Indigenous Research
  • The following key concepts from SSHRC's guidelines should be evident in your research proposal (as applicable):
    • Indigenous or traditional knowledge
    • Reciprocity
    • Community
    • Respect, relevance and contribution

The research proposal should reflect that you and your supervisor are aware of and referring to relevant principles and protocols established for this kind of research, such as, following the Principles of OCAP® (i.e., ownership, control, access and possession/protection), the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance, and/or other principles as determined by relevant communities.

Project references (maximum 5 pages)

(must follow the specifications found in the instructions provided in the Presentation standards for documents section)

Enter the references/bibliography/citation of your research proposal. Use this section to list publications and other sources that are cited in your Research Proposal (e.g, bibliographic information). You must ensure that all citations are clear and complete, to allow reviewers to easily locate the sources.

This document also provides you with the opportunity to demonstrate your familiarity with the literature relevant to your Research Proposal.

1. Self-identify as Indigenous^{Footnote **} (First Nations, Inuk (Inuit) or Métis) Applicant

   Institutions may nominate applicants who identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuk (Inuit) and/or Métis) without those nomination being counted toward their quota.

   For those who choose to self-identify as an Indigenous (First Nations, Inuk (Inuit), and/or Métis) person in Canada for this purpose, they must complete the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS): Voluntary Self-Identification Form for Indigenous Applicants [ PDF (409 KB) ]. Once completed, the form must then be uploaded as a single PDF document (unprotected) not to exceed 30 MB under "Other" in the "Attach Application Materials" task.

   By identifying as an Indigenous applicant, you are agreeing to have your name (email/application/information) and declaration shared with your institution selection committee.

   Please note that the three federal granting agencies selection committee members will not be made aware of which applicants have self-identified as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuk (Inuit) and/or Métis).

2. Part-time and joint research graduate program

   (must follow the specifications found in the instructions provided in the Presentation standards for documents section)

   This section can only be used for the following information:

   Part-time studies must be outlined in this section. If you have been enrolled part-time during your PhD studies, specify which semesters. The information must be reflected in the transcripts.

   If you are registered in a joint graduate research program (e.g., MD/PhD), use this document to provide a timeline of your undergraduate/graduate versus doctoral program studies, broken down by semester. This calculation must be consistent with the transcripts provided. For purposes of this calculation, the undergraduate/graduate portion will not count towards the number of months completed.

   Once completed, the document must then be uploaded as a single PDF document (unprotected) not to exceed 30 MB under "Other" in the "Attach Application Materials" task.

   Note: In order to maintain equitable application requirements for all nominees, no information other than that outlined above will be forwarded to the committee. Any information that does not conform to the requirements will be removed with no further notification to the applicant.

This task requires you to confirm that up-to-date official transcript for all your undergraduate and graduate studies (completed or ongoing) have been sent to the proposed nominating institution. For more information on how to supply your institution with your official transcripts, contact your nominating institution.

Certified true copies of official transcripts from the institution are accepted. A certified true copy is defined as a copy of the original document (or of the original translated document if the official transcript is not in either English or French).

If you have transcripts written in a language other than English or French, you must provide a certified English or French translation, separated from the original transcripts by a blank page.

For international transcripts: the nominating institution must attach with your official international transcripts a summary describing the variations in the grading system between the foreign Institutions and Canadian-level equivalents and/or explaining international credentials and equivalencies should your application be nominated to the Vanier CGS program.

This task allows you to generate a PDF of your nomination package that will resemble that which will be provided to the selection committee, but excluding the referee assessments.

Review your application. If a task is incomplete (including referee assessments), you must provide the missing information in order to be able to submit your application.

Note: If any of the documents provided (including attachments) do not conform to the requirements and/or if they exceed the page limit, the additional pages will be automatically removed from the nomination prior to selection committee's review. ResearchNet does not validate the content of the uploaded document(s).

Note: Applicants cannot preview their CCV information through ResearchNet. They must verify the information directly on the CCV portal.

You must indicate your consent to the terms listed in ResearchNet before you submit your application.

You must click "Submit" to send your application to your nominating institution. You will be prompted to confirm that this is what you wish to do. You will receive a confirmation email that your application was submitted to the nominating institution's faculty of graduate studies.

Submission of an application will serve as a formal attestation that you have provided true, complete, and accurate information in the application and its related documents.

Applications are submitted to the nominating institution for review before being nominated to the Vanier CGS competition. If you wish to make changes to your application package, either before or after an institution's internal deadline, you must contact your nominating institution about this possibility.

To maintain a fair and equitable competition for all nominees, the application packages cannot be updated after they have been forwarded to the Vanier Banting Secretariat.