The best place to look for updated information is at
www.nserc.ca I received an undergraduate NSERC; there
are others available for industry and graduate
students and you should check the above web-site for
more information regarding those awards.
Basically, you need to find yourself an employer, who
usually ends up being a professor in your
Faculty/Department. These prospective employers and
yourself then jointly fill out an application form to
NSERC, consisting of your personal information, an
attached undergraduate transcript, and a short
statement describing your employment project.
This application is then submitted to the Head of the
Faculty/Department. He/she will tally up all the
applications and then send the promising ones off to
NSERC. After that, once you start working, NSERC
starts mailing you cheques each month. This saves
your employer some money, and gives him/her the incentive to hire summer students.
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