Joint Call for Research Proposals
Joint Call for Research Proposals on Optimizing Milk Composition and On-Farm Utilization of Processing By-products for a Sustainable Dairy Future
The deadline to submit a Notification of Intent is May 22, 2025.
DFC is partnering with Alberta Milk, BC Dairy, Dairy Farmers of Manitoba, Dairy Farmers of Ontario, Novalait and SaskMilk, to launch, within the Canadian scientific community, this Joint Call for Research Proposals.
The objective of the Joint Call is to seek innovative, sustainable, and economically feasible solutions that can be applied on dairy farms to help address the economic, environmental, and technological challenges associated with managing milk solids not-fat (SNF) in Canada.
Researchers from Canadian universities and colleges and/or from federal and provincial research centres are eligible to apply to this Call. Non-Canadian researchers could be considered as collaborators. Commercial product research and development is not eligible.
| IMPORTANT DATES | |
|---|---|
| April 24, 2025 | Launch of the Joint Call for Research Proposals |
| May 22, 2025 | Notification of Intent submission deadline (11:59 p.m. – local time zone of the Principal Investigator)* |
| Week of June 2, 2025 | Notification to Principal Investigators of their eligibility (or not) to submit a Full Proposal |
| July 21, 2025 | Full Proposal submission deadline (for eligible proposals) (11:59 p.m. – local time zone of the Principal Investigator)* |
| December 2025 | Decisions communicated to the Principal Investigators |
*A confirmation of reception will be sent by email within three business days.
DOCUMENTS FOR DOWLOAD
POLICY FOR THE INDIRECT COSTS
No indirect costs will be covered for research institutions, principal investigators, and/or co-investigators for projects funded under this Call. Please refer to the guidelines above.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMMERCIAL USE POLICY
Research institutions and/or investigators shall grant partners in a research project a license to use the project results for internal, non-commercial, and research purposes, along with a first option to negotiate an exclusive commercial license to commercially exploit the project results, as well as a right of first refusal to match any third-party offer for their commercialization of the project results
If the partners are not involved in the commercialization of the project results, partners shall be entitled to a royalty based on the net profits generated by the research institutions from these research results. The percentage of this royalty would be determined prior to commercialization, through good faith negotiations based on commercially reasonable terms
