Request for Proposals for TRIUMF Commitments, 2020-2025

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Dear Colleagues,

TRIUMF is starting to prepare its Five-Year Plan 2020-2025, a report that
will define TRIUMF’s vision and mission, communicate the lab’s goals and
priorities, and lay out an action plan for the period 2020-2025 and
beyond.  Covering the full breadth of activities undertaken by TRIUMF, the
Five-Year Plan will underpin TRIUMF’s request for operational funding from
the Government of Canada.

TRIUMF has published a web page to serve as the primary online resource for
information about the 2020-2025 Five-Year Plan development process and the
various consultations with stakeholders. You can access it here 
<http://www.triumf.ca/FYP2020-25>.

An integral part of developing TRIUMF’s Five-Year Plan 2020-25 is
understanding and prioritizing any and all activities that might involve
commitments of the laboratory’s resources and expertise during the period
covered by the plan. This understanding will help inform allocation of
resources and future project commitments.

As a multidisciplinary national centre, TRIUMF would like to ensure there
are opportunities to provide input into this important part of the planning
process. We are encouraging the community to put forward innovative ideas,
and in particular consider initiatives that bridge across individual
fields of research and take advantage of TRIUMF’s diverse capabilities. As
such, TRIUMF is requesting proposals for any and all activities that might
involve commitments of TRIUMF resources and expertise during the five
years covered by the plan. A short template outlining the requested
information is available for download here 
<http://www.triumf.ca/sites/default/files/2017-TRIUMF-PPAC-Input-Template.docx> 
and on the 5YP webpage.

TRIUMF’s Policy and Planning Advisory Committee (PPAC) 
<http://www.triumf.ca/home/about-triumf/governance/external-committees/ppac> 
will be responsible
for reviewing and analyzing all Five-Year Plan proposals. As part of this
process, PPAC will prioritize the submissions and offer recommendations to
the TRIUMF Director. The PPAC review will be completed by early December
2017.

For all submissions of new project commitments, the PPAC review
constitutes the Gate 0 review of TRIUMF’s project governance process 
<http://www.triumf.ca/sites/default/files/InformationSession_Oct2016_0.pdf>. 
In
particular, all initiatives that will involve a proposal to the next round
of calls by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), anticipated for
2018/19, and involve TRIUMF resources, are expected to submit a proposal to
PPAC. For initiatives that might go forward to future CFI funding rounds
before 2025 we also expect a proposal submission to PPAC now, if the
resources requested from TRIUMF (cash and manpower) are near or above $1M.

We request that you complete the template and submit the information to
5YPSC at triumf.ca <mailto:5YPSC at triumf.ca>. The deadline for this is 
*Monday, October 16, 2017*.

We look forward to reviewing your submissions

Warm regards,

Reiner Kruecken
TRIUMF Deputy Director
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