Grant priority area: Return to work and recovery

The central focus of the WSIB Grants Program is return to work and recovery.

Examples of possible subjects include, but are not limited to:

• addressing barriers to successful return to work and recovery outcomes;
• integrating best practices to improve return to work and recovery programs;
• application of behavioural economics in Ontario’s workplace compensation system.

These high-level guidelines outline some of the topics of interest to the WSIB. Proposals should identify more specific areas of focus.

The WSIB Grants Program accepts the following types of proposals:

1. Research Proposals

• Expert research proposals that deliver practical results for the workers’ compensation system
• Workplace-based projects that establish partnerships between the workplace, researchers and organizations

2. Training Proposals

• Initiatives that help workers, employers and the compensation system resolve long-standing barriers
• Innovative opportunities that build capacity in the community and offer significant potential to improve compensation system results

Please review the Proposal Instructions (PDF) for more information on who is eligible to apply and what types of proposals are accepted by the WSIB Grants Program.

Canadian Water Network’s Canadian Municipal Water Consortium is soliciting proposals for projects that will synthesize, mobilize and apply existing knowledge that enables municipalities or service providers to establish more sustainable and resilient cities.

Municipal water systems are becoming increasingly vulnerable to large shifts in weather patterns, including infrastructure damage due to floods and extreme cold; water security and quality issues due to droughts and wildfires; and environmental and health impacts due to storm and sanitary sewer overflows.

Additionally, aging infrastructure and a growing backlog of deferred maintenance requires innovative solutions and the implementation of robust financial models to ensure municipalities have adequate funds to maintain water services and reliable financing options to pay for future upgrades.

This call for proposals is seeking projects that will integrate, share and apply existing knowledge in the areas of climate resiliency and financial sustainability of municipal water systems

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Increase mentorship opportunities for First Nations, Inuit and Métis trainees and New Investigators through networking;
• Address recruitment, retention and representation of First Nations, Inuit and Métis trainees and New Investigators;
• Create mechanisms within Mentorship Networks that support trainees and New Investigators throughout the different stages of their training and career;
• Inclusion of cultural practices and attention to the psychosocial needs of trainees in IMNPs;
• Identify systemic and individual barriers hindering First Nations, Inuit and Métis trainees and New Investigators from becoming full-tenured faculty members or Nominated Principal Investigators  driving the Indigenous health research agenda, for example, and develop strategies for overcoming barriers.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• To strengthen the effectiveness or scalability of interventions in the four exemplar areas through community informed enhancements or adaptations using an implementation science approach, and;
• To support teams to study the enhancement and/or adaptation, and scale-up of population health interventions across at least 4 diverse communities.

Through the launch of a global call, the GACD, CIHR and IDRC aim to develop a global network of researchers that can enhance cumulative learning across the individual research projects, and work towards understanding how socio-economic, cultural, geopolitical and policy contexts have influenced results and how findings might be adapted and applied in different settings. The funded researchers will form part of a Global Research Network (GRN). The GRN (will meet annually to discuss their research and share information in order to develop approaches to standardize data collection, and, wherever feasible, to use these standardized approaches in their respective projects.

To that end, the specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Fund implementation research projects that will generate new knowledge on interventions and their implementation for the primary prevention of Chronic Lung Diseases in either:

1. Low and middle income countries (LMICs), as defined by The World Bank; or
2. Aboriginal populations within Canada, Australia and/or LMICs

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Support the generation and enrichment of Canadian big datasets on neurodegenerative diseases and;
• Support the access, linkage, analysis and dissemination of Big Data on dementia in Canada and internationally.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• to support planning activities, partnership development and/or increasing understanding of the health research landscape that will contribute to the advancement of research consistent with the mandate of CIHR; and/or;
• to support dissemination events/activities that focus on the communication of health research evidence to the appropriate researcher and/or knowledge user audience(s), tailoring the message and medium as appropriate.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to create and support a National Coordinating Office for the pan-Canadian SPOR Network in Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations.