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SSHRC Insight Development Grants 2016

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Information on SSHRC’s Insight Development Grant 2016 is now available on the SSHRC website. 

Details on the February 2016 Competition:

Award Amount: $7,000 up to $75,000
Duration: 1 to 2 years
Sponsor Deadline: February 3rd, 2016 (8:00pm EST)
BUC Research Officer Deadline: 1 week before deadline; 2 weeks if requesting feedback and detailed review.
Results Announced: June 2016
Application Form: Research Portal (application will be available by early December)

CCV: Applicants will be required to complete the Canadian Common CV as part of their application to this funding opportunity. Applicants are encouraged to begin work on their CV early.

Changes for this year’s IDG:

  • The definition of Emerging Scholar has changed
  • Collaborator CCVs no longer required
  • Longer section to describe the research team (“Roles and Responsibilities” module); doubled to 7600 characters from 3800.
  • Adjudication committee will include disciplinary committees when justified by the number of applications.
  • A new resource is available: Preparing an Insight Development Grant Research-Creation application
  • Social Work, Law and Criminology have moved to Group 4

Please consult the following policies and guidelines:

Program Descriptions and Funding Opportunities:

For technical questions please contact:
Helpdesk
Tel.: 613-995-4273
Email: webgrant@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca

For Programs-related questions please contact:
Research Grants and Partnerships Division
Tel.: 613-996-6976
Email: insightdevelopment@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca

 

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SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant – November 2015 Competition

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SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant November 2015 Competition

How can emerging technologies be leveraged to benefit Canadians?

The Knowledge Synthesis grant will foster a deeper understanding of the state of knowledge regarding the human dimensions involved in emerging technologies. The resulting syntheses will also help identify roles that the academic, public, private and not-for-profit sectors may play in seizing future opportunities and mitigating risks related to these technologies. This knowledge will pave the way for developing robust policies, strategies, practices and tools for a sustainable, equitable and prosperous future for Canada and the world.

For full details on this competition, see: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/ksg_emerging_technologies-ssc_technologies_emergentes-eng.aspx 

Application Deadline: January 12, 2016 (8:00pm EST)
Results announced: March 2016
Award amount: $25,000
Duration: 1 year

Objectives of this funding opportunity:

  • State of Knowledge and Research Gaps:
    • critically assess the state of knowledge of the Future Challenge Area theme under consideration;
    • identify knowledge gaps within the theme; and
    • identify the most promising policies and practices related to the theme.
  • Research Data:
    • assess the quality, accuracy and rigour of current work in the field; and
    • identify gaps in the quantitative and qualitative data available.
  • Knowledge Mobilization:
    • mobilize knowledge related to promising policies and practices within the academic, private and public policy sectors; and
    • facilitate dialogue between academic researchers, cross-sectoral stakeholders and policy-makers in government.

Expected Outcomes

Knowledge Synthesis Grants are not intended to support original research. Rather, they are intended to support the synthesis of existing research knowledge and the identification of knowledge gaps. This call is particularly focused on the state of research knowledge emerging over the past 10 years.

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support researchers, teams of researchers and knowledge users to produce knowledge syntheses and scoping reviews that will contribute to the use of synthesized evidence in decision-making and practice.

CIHR Project Scheme 2016-1st Live Pilot Competition

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Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Scheme Competition (2016 1st Live Pilot) (see below for objectives of this opportunity)

Deadlines:
Brescia Research Officer: 1 week before agency deadline (allow for 2 weeks before if you wish to receive feedback on your application, and/or if you require additional materials or signatures)
CIHR Registration Period: November 16, 2015 through January 18, 2016
Application Deadline: March 1, 2016
Anticipated Notice of Decision: July 15, 2016

All registration and application materials are submitted via ResearchNet

Click here for Project Scheme Registration Instructions

Note: 

  • The list of all participants must remain unchanged between registration and application; CIHR will not allow participants to be added or removed or roles to be changed once a registration is submitted. This is required to ensure a high quality of reviews, enabling CIHR to secure reviewers with the appropriate expertise for applications within the competition timelines. The list of participants will enable potential reviewers to declare any conflicts of interest.
  • The Complete Summary must remain unchanged between registration and application. The summary of your research proposal will enable CIHR to match applications to reviewers with the appropriate expertise.

Common CV Requirements:

Nominated Principal Applicants, Principal Applicants and Co-Applicants are required to complete a Canadian Common CV (CCV). If you have previously completed a CCV template, please take the time to update your CV information using the new templates in theCanadian Common CV (CCV) or create a new CCV if this is your first application to CIHR.

The roles you select when identifying participants in ResearchNet (Task 1) will determine which CV type is required for each participant:

  • The Nominated Principal Applicant and all Principal Applicants are required to submit a “CIHR Project Biosketch” CV, whether they are an Independent Researcher or Knowledge User.
  • All Co-Applicants are required to submit a “Project Scheme Co-Applicant CV”, whether they are an Independent Researcher, Knowledge User or a Trainee.
  • A CV is not requested for Collaborators.

Objectives of the Project Scheme
The Project Scheme is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports projects with a specific purpose and a defined endpoint. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.

The Project Scheme is expected to:

  • Support a diverse portfolio of health-related research and knowledge translation projects at any stage, from discovery to application, including commercialization;
  • Contribute to the creation and use of health-related knowledge;
  • Promote relevant collaborations across disciplines, professions, and sectors.

Partnered/Integrated Knowledge Translation (iKT) projects: Special consideration
One of the expectations of the Project Scheme is to support a diverse portfolio of health-related research and knowledge translation projects at any stage, from discovery to application, including commercialization. To support this expectation CIHR will establish a minimum threshold of funded knowledge translation and commercialization projects that include a partnered/iKT approach. Competition processes and peer review for these projects will be fully integrated within the competition as a whole with no additional steps being required on the part of the applicant outside of identifying their application as a partnered/iKT and commercialization project (details can be found in Project Scheme: 2016 1st Live Pilot – Registration Instructions and Project Scheme: 2016 1st Live Pilot – Application Instructions (link to come)).

Funds Available
CIHR’s financial contributions for the Project Scheme are subject to availability of funds. Should CIHR funding levels not be available, or be decreased due to unforeseen circumstances.

  • The combined total amount available for CIHR’s 2015-16 Open Grant Programs (Foundation Scheme: 2015 2nd Live Pilot, Project Scheme: 2016 1st Live Pilot and Project Scheme: 2016 2nd Live Pilot) is approximately $500M.
  • The number of grants expected to be funded for this Project Scheme competition will depend on the application pressure, requested grant amount and duration and peer review recommendations.
  • Based on historical modeling, it is expected that most Project grant budget requests will fall within a range of $50K to $750K per annum and the grant durations will range between approximately 1 to 5 years. Project grant funding levels will be commensurate with need, which is expected to vary by research field, research approach, and scope of project activities.

Partner Participation
The Project Scheme has no formal requirements for partnering, however, depending on the nature of the research project a commitment (cash or in-kind) from interested or engaged knowledge user(s) or other partners may be reasonably expected by peer reviewers.

Research Areas
The Project Scheme is open to applicants in all areas of health research that are aligned with the CIHR mandate: “To excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system”.

European Commission – Horizon 2020 Work Programmes for 2016-2017

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The European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program is continuing where the Seventh Framework Program (FP7) left off; it serves as the main funding mechanism through which the EU supports research and development activities covering almost all scientific disciplines.  Projects and other activities funded by Horizon 2020 must be led by EU partners (in consortia comprising a minimum of 3 EU institutions), however, international collaboration with third countries such as Canada is actively encouraged.  Canadians can be eligible for EU financial support, although the EU proponents must make a convincing case that the Canadian contribution to a particular research project is essential to the project’s success, and that the expertise brought by the Canadians cannot be found within the EU.

In October, a series of calls were announced for Horizon 2020’s various Work Programmes for 2016-17 (the Work Programme is an annual plan for a particular thematic area under Horizon 2020 that translates the strategic direction of the European Commission into action items for that year).  The folllowing programmes will be of most interest to researchers:

Industrial Leadership Pillar

  • Information and Communication Technologies
  • Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Production
  • Space

Societal Challenges Pillar

  • Health, demographic social change and wellbeing
    • continued grant to the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (which coordinates with CIHR)
  • Food security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine and Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy
    • SFS-39-2017: How to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic?
    • BG-09-2016: An integrated Arctic observation system
    • BG-10-2016: Impact of Arctic changes on the weather and climate of the Northern Hemisphere
    • BG-11-2017: The effect of climate change on Arctic permafrost and its socio-economic impact, with a focus on coastal areas
  • Secure, clean and efficient energy
  • Smart, green and integrated transport
    • MG-3.2-2017: Protection of all road users in crashes
    • MG-3.5-2016: Behavioural aspects for safer transport
  • Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials
  • Europe in changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
  • Secure societies

The italicised calls above are those which have specifically indicated that Canadians should be included in project consortia.

A press release with details of the new Work Programmes (valued in total at nearly 16 million euro), and links to the calls themselves, is available at: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-5832_en.htm

Brescia faculty working in these areas, who have existing collaborative relationships with colleagues in the EU, are encouraged to investigate whether any of the calls might provide an opportunity for a proposal they have in mind with their European partners.  If so, the next step would be to contact their European counterparts to signal their interest in collaborating on these proposals. Interested faculty are encouraged to contact Elizabeth Russell-Minda, Research Officer to obtain additional information.