Monthly Archives: July 2016

CIHR Update on Project and Foundation Grants – Launch Dates and Deadlines Delayed

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July 22, 2016

As a follow-up to the outcomes of the July 13th Working Meeting to discuss CIHR’s peer review processes, a Peer Review Working Group has been established under the leadership of Dr. Paul Kubes as Executive Chair of the College of Reviewers. This group, which includes representatives from the Working Meeting, will advise CIHR on the implementation of peer review changes before the launch of the next Project Grant and Foundation Grant competitions. The membership for the working Group is currently being finalized and will be available shortly.

On July 5, CIHR announced that we intended to maintain the original application deadline dates for the Project Grant and Foundation Grant competitions. In order to give the Peer Review Working Group adequate time to meet, however, and given the changes to the peer review process outlined in the Outcomes Statement (available below), these dates will be changed. CIHR is currently examining the anticipated impacts on competition timelines.

We will share additional details concerning the revised launch dates and deadlines as soon as possible, but we can confirm at this time that registration will not open before September 1, 2016 for either competition.

Once again, CIHR would like to thank each participant of the Working Meeting sincerely for their creativity and solutions-oriented focus. The full Outcomes Statement from the July 13 Working Meeting to further strengthen peer review for investigator-initiated research is now available.

Seeding Food Innovation Grants 2016 – Weston

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George Weston Limited and Loblaw Companies Limited have launched their Seeding Food Innovation Grants 2016 to provide seed funding for trans-disciplinary research proposals that address food and health challenges that will impact Canadians and are of global concern.

Letter of Intent deadline – Monday, July 25, 2:00pm EST

To Download an Application, click here.

Funding & Eligibility

  • Funding of up to $150,000 per project is available for up to two years within the field of food innovation
  • Grants will only be awarded to institutions that are Canada Revenue Agency registered
  • Principal Applicants must be at the level of Postdoctoral Fellow or higher

Review Criteria

  • Scientific Rigour and Innovation: The project must be of a rigorously scientific nature, while advancing or challenging current practices. In addition, research ideas should have a clearly defined focus and objectives. The objectives of this opportunity are open to trans-disciplinary work that moves beyond the classical boundaries of nutrition and agriculture. For example, there may be an emphasis on economics, social science and/or behaviour.
  • Vision and scope: While the project is to be primarily executed in Canada and must be significant to Canadian food and health systems, successful projects will also be able to demonstrate relevance and impact in other regions, or at a global scale.
  • Likelihood of success: How well-suited are the team and environment for this work? How likely is the hypothesis to be proven? How likely will the project be at developing a novel, practical and scalable solution to a food-related problem?
  • Commitment to public engagement: Projects must not be stand-alone science but demonstrate that they will make a real impact on communities, industry, policy, education etc.

Additional Information

Please refer to the Funding Guidelines for more detailed information about this grant program.

For inquiries about this funding opportunity: Food.Innovation@Weston.ca or 416-965-5435.

 

New Open-Access Social Science Research Archive

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A team of sociologists and librarians in partnership with the Center for Open Science, will develop a new open-access archive for social science research. The archive, called SocArXiv, will let anyone upload, read and share academic papers, according to the announcement. The announcement comes less than two months after the publishing giant Elsevier said it had acquired the Social Science Research Network, a move many open-access advocates criticized.

Source: Inside Higher Ed (July 12, 2016)

For more information, visit SocArXiv.org. Follow SocArXiv on Twitter or Facebook.

CIHR Update – Foundation and Project Grants Delayed

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As of this writing, both the CIHR Foundation Grant and Project Grant opportunities will be delayed as CIHR is assessing peer review processes and other concerns raised by health researchers. The original launch for these investigator-initiated opportunities was scheduled for June 30th.

Please refer to the message from CIHR’s President, Dr. Alain Beaudet to Canada’s health research community: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/49843.html 

Based on the most recent communications from CIHR, it is expected that the registration and application date for these programs will be as follows:

  • Foundation Grant Registration – August 9, 2016
  • Foundation Grant Application – September 13, 2016
  • Project Grant Registration – August 23, 2016
  • Project Grant Application – September 20, 2016

 

SSHRC Insight Grant – October 2016 Competition

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SSHRC Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging and established scholars for long-term research initiatives of three to five years. Insight Grant research initiatives may be undertaken by an individual researcher or a team of researchers working in collaboration. The maximum value of an Insight Grant is $400,000 over three to five years. A minimum request of $7,000 is required in at least one of the years. A maximum of $100,000 is available in a single year.

October 2016 Competition information:

Value: $7,000 – $400,000
Duration: 3 to 5 years
Application deadlines:
Internal (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)
SSHRC deadline: October 17, 2016 (2:00 pm EST) *Note: if deadline falls on a weekend or a Canadian public holiday, the online application system will remain open until 2:00 pm (eastern time) on the next business day (October 17th).

Results announced: Spring 2017
Apply: Web CV, application and instructions. Insight Grant application forms will be made available online starting July 15, 2016.

For complete details on this opportunity see the SSHRC Insight Grant funding page.

Insight Grant proposals are expected to respond to the objectives put forward in the call for proposals for the Insight program. The objectives of the Insight program are to:

  • build knowledge and understanding from disciplinary, interdisciplinary and/or cross-sector perspectives through support for the best researchers;
  • support new approaches to research on complex and important topics, including those that transcend the capacity of any one scholar, institution or discipline;
  • provide a high-quality research training experience for students;
  • fund research expertise that relates to societal challenges and opportunities; and
  • mobilize research knowledge, to and from academic and non-academic audiences, with the potential to lead to intellectual, cultural, social and economic influence, benefit and impact.

SSHRC welcomes applications involving Aboriginal research, as well as those involving research-creation.

Refer also to the Eligibility section (subject matter, applicants etc.) on the Insight Grant opportunity page.