Guiding Principles

5 objectives of CRIAQ

Research :	To perform focused industry driven generic research projects.
Innovation :	To create novel concepts ready for commercialization and deployment into future aerospace components and products
Training :	To enhance the technical and professional skills for tomorrow’s engineers
Promotion :	To improve the visibility of aerospace design and research challenges to the scientific community and students
National & International :	To partner with Canadian, US and European programs with similar technology objectives.

Guiding principles for Research Projects funded by CRIAQ

Industrial and University Partners involved in one or more research projects funded by CRIAQ, acknowledge that:

1. CRIAQ is a non profit organisation managed by university and industrial partners of equal importance.
   
   
2. CRIAQ is a consortium for pre-competitive research in aerospace where a minimum of 25% of the cost of the projects at the university is assumed by industry, the remaining coming from public funding to the universities.
   
   
3. For each Project, Industry and University will prepare a Project Agreement based on these guiding principles. Upon approval by CRIAQ the Project will be carried out and the relations of Industry and University in connection with such Project will be governed by the Agreement.
   
   
4. Proprietary Information will not be disclosed without having obtained the prior agreement of the disclosing party and will be treated by the receiving party with the same degree of care with which the receiving party treats and protects its own proprietary and confidential information against public disclosure, but with no less than reasonable care.
   
   
   1. Background IP identified in the specific Project Agreement including computer software will remain the property of its original owner. Any Background IP necessary to exploit the Foreground IP will be subject to the specific provisions that have been agreed upon in the project agreement.
      
      
   2. Foreground IP : the Foreground IP will be owned by the project partners whose researchers have intellectually contributed to its development (the “Joint Owners”). Benefits generated by the licensing to third parties of Joint Foreground Intellectual Property shall be apportioned to the Joint Owners in proportion to the percentage of intellectual contribution of each Joint Owner. The Background IP remains the property of its original owner.
      
      
   3. Licensing : Industrial Partners obtain a worldwide, royalty free and exclusive license on the Foreground IP in their field of interest within the aerospace industry, unless otherwise agreed in the specific Project Agreement.
      
      
   4. Publication: Publication rights are guaranteed to all project partners, subject to the limitations of the non-disclosure clause in the Project Agreement. Use in teaching and academic research is also guaranteed, subject to the limitations of the non-disclosure clause in the Project Agreement.
   
   
5. On an on-going basis and no later than the end of the Project, each projects partner will promptly disclose to the other project partners any Intellectual Property or Inventions made or conceived in connection with the Project by or on behalf of Industry or University or jointly by Industry and University.
   
   
6. All project partners and CRIAQ will cooperate in minimizing the potential negative effects on the graduate students when a project has to prematurely come to an end, including the negative effects on (i) the financing necessary for students having theses subjects related to the Project, (ii) the students obtaining the information or data necessary to conduct their research or (iii) any other negative effect leading to delays or termination of the students’ studies.
   
   
7. These guiding principles took effect on the 2^nd of May 2003, were amended the 17^th of January 2007 and can be subject to further amendment at the discretion of the CRIAQ Board.