Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science

Collaborate to Innovate

Partnering with Ryerson offers businesses a competitive advantage in today’s fast-paced environment. Whether you are looking to reduce your technical or financial risk, gain access to highly specialized facilities, license new technologies or attract highly skilled professionals, Ryerson has the researchers, students and services to meet your needs.

If you have a project in mind and are looking to collaborate with a Ryerson professor, we can help. There are an increasing number of funding programs that promote and encourage university-industry research collaborations. In addition to assisting you in engaging with a researcher, we are also able to help find additional project funding from public sector sources such as: 

Mitacs

• Accelerate: Provides up to $15,000 in direct funding for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to undertake a four-month internship to work on a company project under the supervision of a university researcher.

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

• Interaction: Provides researchers with up to $5,000 in travel and meeting costs to meet with Canadian-based companies with whom they have not previously worked to identify company-specific problems on which to collaborate.
• Engage Grant: Funds project costs up to $25,000 for six months to support a new R&D partnership between a university researcher and a company partner.
  
• Collaborative Research Development Grant: Supports longer term R&D projects with industry. Funding is provided as a 1:1 match to industry cash and in-kind support.
  
• Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship: Provides funding for highly qualified science and engineering students at the master's and doctoral levels for two-to-three. The partner company contributes a minimum of $6,000 per year.

Ontario Centers of Excellence

• Technical Problem Solving: Supports short-term projects between industry and academia. Funding is provided as a 1:1 match to industry cash & in-kind support.
  
• Collaborative Research Projects:  Provides matching funding for longer term collaborations while providing training opportunities for students, post doctoral fellows and other highly qualified personnel. Funding is provided as a 1:1 match to industry cash and in-kind support.

Connect Canada

• Links Canadian companies with graduate students and post-doctoral fellows for research projects and internships up to six months. Total funding is $10,000 per four-month project.