Research Support Fund
The Research Support Fund (RFS) assists Canadian post-secondary institutions and their affiliated research hospitals and institutes with the expenses associated with managing the research funded by the three federal research funding agencies. This Program is supporting Centennial College’s development of new grant applications and helping the college to maintain world-class research environment.Learn more about the Research Support Fund.
Centennial College seeks funding to assist with contributing towards the full costs of its research activities.
The direct costs are essential expenditures that would not have been incurred had the grant not been undertaken. Accordingly, they can be directly assigned to the grant activities with a high degree of accuracy. They are directly connected with a specific research project, including salaries, wages and benefits of research personnel, materials and supplies, equipment, user fees, and travel expenses) of its research activities
The indirect costs are the costs that are not directly connected with a specific project but with the research enterprise as a whole. Examples of indirect costs of research include: grant writing, management and administration of the grant, Libraries, and research labs and facilities maintenance, knowledge transfer and metrics collection among other things
View eligible and ineligible indirect cost expenditures under RSF.
Centennial College’s notional amount of RSF grant for 2026-27 is $44,206
Please see below for an overview of how Centennial proposes to allocate its grant funds under each of the five expenditure categories based on the notional amount
Fiscal Year: 2026-27
Type: Proposed
Research facilities: $11,050
Research Resources: $11,050
Management and Administration: $22,106
Regulatory requirement and accreditation: $-
Intellectual property and knowledge mobilization: $-
Notional Amount: $44,206
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Research
Centennial College values and embraces equity, diversity, and inclusion as fundamental to our mission to educate students for career success, and we proudly endorse the Government of Canada’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Canada Charter.
View Centennial College’s signed endorsement of the Dimensions Charter.
For more information, please contact aries@centennialcollege.ca.
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Research Data Management
Research data refers to data that are used as primary sources to support technical or scientific enquiry, research, scholarship, or artistic activity, and that are used as evidence in the research process and/or are commonly accepted in the research community as necessary to validate research findings and results. Research data may be experimental data, observational data, operational data, third party data, public sector data, monitoring data, processed data, or repurposed data.
Centennial is developing an institution-wide compliance strategy to the federal government’s introduction of the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy, which provides guidelines for managing research data throughout its lifecycle.
Read the latest version of the Centennial College Research Data Management Strategy.
For more information on data management at Centennial, contact aries@centennialcollege.ca.
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property (IP) means any form of knowledge or expression created by human intellect that can be owned by a person or group. It includes, but is not limited to, inventions, discoveries, know-how, show-how, processes, unique materials, copyrightable works, original data and other creative works which have value.
In our federally funded, externally partnered Applied Research engagements, Centennial College retains the rights to IP creation during research strictly for teaching purposes only, and otherwise assigns the created IP back to the industry partner.
Download our IP policy and Commercialization policy.