Digital Technologies Research Centre

The Digital Technologies Research Centre at Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) aims to make digital technologies smarter, more intuitive, and ethically robust by applying data, AI, and advanced computing to solve real-world problems.

About NRC

National Research Council Canada

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) operates a network of 12 research centres across the country, covering a wide variety of fields: aerospace, aquatic and crop resources, automotive and surface transportation, clean energy innovation, construction, digital technologies, astronomy and astrophysics, human health therapeutics, medical devices, metrology, ocean, coastal and river engineering, and quantum and nanotechnologies, among others.

The NRC’s mission is to have an impact by advancing knowledge, applying leading-edge technologies, and working with innovators to find creative, relevant, and sustainable solutions to today’s and tomorrow’s economic, social, and environmental challenges.

Through the cooperation between HIDA and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Helmholtz researchers can now undertake research stays of up to three months at NRC’s renowned research centres across Canada.

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The Digital Technologies Research Centre partners with industry, academia, government and other NRC research centres. Its scope includes artificial intelligence, computer vision, natural language processing, cybersecurity, cryptography, quantum computing, bioinformatics, human-computer interaction, and data analytics.

Facilities include high-performance computing (Beatrix), data analytics centres, imaging & graphics labs, cybersecurity and human-computer interaction labs, multilingual text processing, and visualization hubs.

Through collaboration centres (e.g. with universities) and challenge/cluster-programs, the center works across the technology readiness levels to enable innovation, commercialization, and public policy impact.

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How to Apply

Step 1: Contact the NRC's International Relations Office (contact person: Terrie Romano: munic.nrc-cnrc@international.gc.ca) to discuss the possibility of a research stay. This ensures that your planned stay aligns with the relevant research areas.
Step 2: Next, the NRC’s International Relations Office will connect you to the relevant research center so you can plan your stay with them.
Step 3: Submit your application through the following application portal.

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Step 4: Your application will be reviewed by a selection committee. You will receive a notification regarding the outcome of your funding when a decision is made.

You can find more details about the application process here!