Webinar: Managing Your Horizon Europe Grant
Event Date:
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:30pm EST
Event Location:
Online
By the Delegation of the European Union to Canada
Online event
Feb 18 from 11am to 12:30pm EST
Overview
Join us online to learn top tips for smoothly managing your Horizon Europe grant and deadlines!
This informative online session supports Canadian researchers navigating Horizon Europe grants by providing practical guidance on effective grant management, allowing participants to focus on delivering impactful research.
The event will feature insights from Horizon Europe experts and representatives from the EU and Canada, offering a comprehensive perspective on available support mechanisms and best practices throughout the grant lifecycle. A dedicated Q&A session will give participants the opportunity to ask questions and engage directly with speakers.
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This interesting talk will delve into a successfully awarded CFI JELF grant establishing a world leading wind tunnel facility for structural and mechanical engineering. The multiscale concept offers novel flow control and realism, enabling nature inspired systems, advanced testing, resilient structures, and transformative research collaboration at Lakehead University Canada.
Dr. Ahmed Elshaer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Lakehead University and the founder of the Structural and Wind Engineering Research Laboratory (SWERL). A Fellow of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering, he serves as Vice-Chair for the Structural Specialty and sits on the Board of Professional Engineers Ontario. With over 100 publications in top-tier journals and peer-reviewed conferences, Dr. Elshaer is a recognized leader in wind and structural engineering. His research combines wind effects on structures, machine learning, and high-resolution flow modelling, driving advances in structural safety, resilience, and innovative engineering solutions worldwide.
Dr. Muhammad Khalid is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the founder of Nature-Inspired Engineering Research Lab (NIERL) at Lakehead University. His areas of research include bio-inspired engineering, fluid-structure interactions, multi-physics computational modeling, and nonlinear dynamics. He has experience of more than 15 years of teaching and research in different institutions in Canada (Lakehead University, University of Alberta), U.S. (University of Virginia), China (Peking University and Jiangsu University), and Pakistan (National University of Sciences & Technology). Thus far, he has published over 85 journal articles and peer-reviewed conference papers on reputed national and international forums. 
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Dr. Atif Shamim: Dr. Atif Shamim (PhD, Carleton University) is a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Principal Investigator of the IMPACT Lab at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). An Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, he is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology. With over 400 publications and 40 patents, his work in wireless sensing has earned numerous awards, including the Kings Prize for best innovation of the year and the Ottawa Centre for Research Innovation (OCRI) Researcher of the Year and Entrepreneur of the Year. His research bridges innovative antenna designs and their integration with circuits and sensors for flexible and wearable wireless sensing systems.
Dr. Mark Daley: Mark is the Chief AI Officer at Western University and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science with cross-appointments in five other departments, The Rotman Institute of Philosophy, and The Western Institute for Neuroscience. He is also a faculty affiliate of Toronto's Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Mark was named in the Maclean's magazine "Power List 2024" of the top 100 Canadians shaping the country and in Constellation Research's AI150, a list of the 150 top global executives leading AI transformation efforts. In October 2024, Mark was appointed the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Scholar in Residence in Artificial Intelligence. Mark has previously served as the Vice-President (Research) at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research(CIFAR), and Chief Digital Information Officer, Special Advisor to the President, and Associate Vice-President (Research) at Western. Mark is the past chair of Compute Ontario and serves on a number of other boards.
Mr. Dylan McKibbon: Dylan is a graduate student in the MHSc Biomedical Ethics program at the University of Toronto. His academic focus involves understanding how Privacy and Bioethics can learn from and support one another. Dylan serves as a non-scientific member / ad-hoc privacy and AI advisor for the William Osler Research Ethics Board, and is a member of the Canadian Bioethics Society (CSB) AI and Healthcare Ethics Special Interest Group. Dylan has also presented on the institutional implications of AI-generated research at the 2024 International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation (ICCEC), and most recently as a keynote panelist during the 2025 CAREB-ACCER conference. As he strives to bridge the gap between biomedical ethics & privacy, Dylan is constantly thinking about how emerging technologies challenge fundamental assumptions about oversight, accountability, and ethical deliberation, and believes artificial intelligence is the mechanism through which bioethics and privacy will rapidly, and sometimes violently, collide.
Dr. Christina van Barneveld: Dr. Christina van Barneveld is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University, specializing in educational measurement and evaluation. Her recent research explores student perspectives on the use of AI in university learning and its implications for their future roles as teachers in K–12 education, contributing to evolving conversations in teacher preparation and assessment.
Dr. Langis Roy: Dr. Langis Roy is Lakehead University’s Vice-President, Research and Innovation. He has held academic appointments at the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, and most recently at Ontario Tech University, where he served terms as Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (2015–2021) and Deputy Provost (2020–2023). Dr. Roy holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University. With more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and three patents in radio-frequency system-on-package designs, Dr. Roy’s interdisciplinary research spans microwave components, wireless sensor and power harvesting technologies, and next-generation system integration with applications in 5G/6G, autonomous vehicles, biomedical monitoring, and more. His recent work focuses on AI-assisted design and control. A globally engaged researcher, Dr. Roy has held visiting appointments at institutions in Finland and France.