APPLICATION INFO

How are proposals assessed?

There will be no Limited Term Professorship awarded for the 2011-12 academic year as one was awarded recently.

Professorship applicants will be screened for qualities the Foundation believes are essential ingredients of future professional accomplishment and/or reasonable reliable indicators of future professional success. These may include:

• Exceptional intelligence and creativity with particular emphasis on those aspects related to Canadian capital markets.
• Demonstrated knowledge of, and commitment to, Canadian capital markets.
• Extraordinary accomplishments in professional studies.
• Appropriate moral and ethical values.
  

Disbursement of funds

The first payment will be paid at a date that is agreed upon with the successful applicant’s university. All payments will be made to the successful applicant's university.

Agreement (including declaration and signatures)

Awards will be made by way of an agreement between the university, the professor and the Foundation.

Suspension and termination

The Foundation may agree to suspend an award in such circumstances as: illness; parental leave; compassionate leave. In such event where suspension is granted an agreement will be reached between the professor, Foundation and university regarding recommencement of the term (if applicable).

The Foundation may terminate an award in such circumstances as:

• Professor does not comply with the conditions.
• Professor fails to pursue the agreed conditions as set out in his/her proposal.

Liability

The Foundation accepts no liability for the manner in which the professor conducts his/her work. The professor will be responsible for the work and the consequences of it.

Intellectual property rights

The Foundation will make no claim to ownership, or control of any intellectual property rights arising from, or in association with the program of research undertaken.

It is the responsibility of the university to negotiate any necessary agreement regarding intellectual property.

Reporting, dissemination and acknowledgement

A report is required at the end of each year, prior to continued financing.

The report will contain information that has been agreed upon and must align with the applicant's proposal. A yearly meeting with a representative of the Foundation at a mutually agreeable date and time is also required.

The Foundation retains the right to publish the applicant name and nature of research in all activities and/or published material it may prepare.