It is our pleasure to announce that CIHR will be offering two MS Teams Q&A sessions to trainees, postdoctoral researchers and institution staff regarding award programs that are offered. We will start by providing a quick overview of our programs; however, most of the session will be spent answering participant questions.

We will be using Slido, an interactive tool where participants will have the opportunity to ask questions during the session. We also encourage you to submit your questions in advance to Slido, and we will do our best to answer them during the session.

We will send you the meeting link and the link to Slido in the coming weeks to the email address that you use to register. In this email, you will also receive a PDF presentation providing a comprehensive overview of our programs. We encourage you to read the PDF presentation slides before submitting your questions to Slido.

Register now!

If you are interested in participating, we invite you to register for the session of your choice.

You are also encouraged to distribute copies of the attached poster, circulate this email and/or to promote it via your institutional social media to advertise these sessions.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by email at Support-Soutien@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.

Join us on June 9th for a virtual matchmaking event! We are bringing together researchers and innovators from Canada, Germany, France and South Korea to forge new partnerships towards the 2027 Horizon Europe Cluster 4 calls. This event will focus on call for proposals relating to artificial intelligence, robotics, data, and digital technologies.

Registration/More Information

For more information, including how to register (by June 3, 2026), please click here.

Researchers in North America can join European and other international partners to form consortia to carry out collaborative research under Horizon Europe’s Pillar 2,  "Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness" .  Pillar 2 features €53.5 billion in funding.

Join an info session on Horizon Europe for researchers and institutions interested in European Union funding and collaboration opportunities, with a focus on how Canadian and U.S. institutions can apply to open calls.  The info session will highlight the final two years of the current R&I framework program.  

The presentation is tailored to those who have already attended a past talk or otherwise read the basics of Horizon Europe's Pillar 2 and assumes attendees have already learned the basic terminology or structure explained in the recordings. Please therefore watch one or more prior to joining us live.

Recent Pillar 2 webinars include these thematic info sessions and these cluster-specific info sessions. Please watch any of the linked webinar recordings that may be of interest, to learn the basics and be ready for this upcoming session.

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/north-america/events/horizon-europe-pillar-2-info-session-north-america

Advance registration is required. 

EURAXESS North America and the European Research Council Executive Agency are offering a webinar on ERC grants. The ERC is the premier European funding organization for excellent frontier research supporting investigator-driven frontier research across all fields. It awards research grants to scientists and scholars from all over the world, both early-career and senior researchers, carrying out their ambitious research projects in all scientific disciplines in Europe.  NOTE: For most ERC grants, there are European residency requirements for the PI, however it is possible to have team members outside the EU.

Particular attention will be given to the ERC Synergy Grants, which allow one of the team (co-PI) to be based anywhere in the world, including outside of Europe. Open to all research fields.

The webinar is free but advance registration is required.

For more information, go to: 

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/north-america/events/erc-grants-...

CIHR is hosting the following webinar to support participants with the requirements of the funding opportunity "Operating Grants: Evaluating community-based programs and social innovations that support aging in the community" and to answer questions on how to apply.

When: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026 at 1:30 PM ET | Join
Duration: 60 minutes
Language: English presentation followed by a period of questions and answers in both official languages, English and French.

A copy of the presentation will be available from support-soutien@cihr-irsc.gc.ca following the webinar.

On behalf of Mitacs and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), I am pleased to invite Canadian researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows to an information session on research and funding opportunities in the quantum sector between Canada and KIT. Participants from KIT will also be joining.   

The session will feature presentations on quantum research and funding opportunities at KIT as well as through the Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA) program. KIT’s Institute of Quantum Materials and Technologies (IQMT) will present their research on quantum materials and kinetic inductance quantum systems. A detailed agenda is attached. 

 June 9, 2026 
 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET.  
 Online 
 Language: English 
 Registration required: To register, please email clemens.anger9@kit.edu. The Zoom link is included in the agenda attached.  

Participants will also have the opportunity to engage directly with KIT through three breakout rooms featuring: 

• Professor Dr. Matthieu Le Tacon, Head of IQMT - Quantum Materials 

• Professor Dr. Elena Hassinger, Division Head, IQMT- New Quantum Materials 

• Dr. Mathieu Fechant, Division Head, IQMT - Kinetic Inductance Quantum Systems 

Please note that Mitacs and KIT programs are complementary and managed separately. Interested applicants need to apply to both Mitacs GRA and KIT. Funding is provided to successful applicants by both organizations.  

We would like to inform you of the upcoming webinar for the sixth edition of the NSERC Discovery Horizons program.

English session: May 20, 12:00 - 1:30 pm (ET)

To join the meeting click on the hyperlink above. 

A short presentation of the program will precede a Q&A session. The webinar will be recorded and the record distributed to this mailing list later that week.

Furthermore, we would like to share with you some answers to frequently asked questions.