This Funding Opportunity Announcement is a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17) Joint Program Committee 1 (JPC-1)/Medical Simulation and Information Sciences (MSIS) Research Program Inter-professional Team-based Learning in Early Stages of Learning, for the remainder of the announcement this will be referenced as Team_INTEL].  This BAA must be read in conjunction with the submission guidelines in Grants.gov/Apply for Grants (hereinafter called Grants.gov/Apply).  It must also be read in conjunction with the document titled “General Submission Instructions” available with this BAA in Grants.gov.

This BAA (Program Specific) is intended to solicit extramural research and development ideas and is issued under the provisions of the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-369), as implemented in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d)(2) and 35.016.  In accordance with FAR 35.016, projects funded under this BAA must be for basic and applied research and that part of development not related to the development of a specific system or hardware procurement.  Projects must be for scientific study and experimentation directed toward advancing the state-of-the-art or increasing knowledge or understanding rather than focusing on a specific system or hardware solution.  Research and development funded through this BAA is intended and expected to benefit and inform both military and civilian medical practice and knowledge. 

This BAA is intended for extramural investigators only.  A separate FY17 JPC-1/MSIS-Team_INTEL Announcement/Funding Opportunity for intramural investigators will be available through eReceipt (https://cdmrp.org/Program_Announcements_and_Forms/).

FY17 Inter-professional Team-based Learning in Early Stages of Learning (Team_INTEL) Award

Eligibility

·    Independent Investigators at all academic levels (or equivalent).

·    An extramural investigator is defined as all those not included in the definition of intramural investigator, below.

·    An intramural investigator is defined as a Department of Defense (DoD) military or civilian employee working within a DoD laboratory, DoD military treatment facility, or working in a DoD activity embedded within a civilian medical center.

Key Mechanisms

·      Seeks research to determine, define, and validate learning strategies that foster inter-professional team-based learning during the early stages of learning.

·      A pilot study of six (6) months to collect data for confirmation of proposed variables, metrics, and evaluation criteria is required.

·      Preliminary data are required.

·      Pre-application is required; application is by invitation only.

Funding

·       Maximum funding of $1,200,000 in direct costs (plus indirect costs)

·       Period of performance should not exceed 2 years

http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/dmrdp.shtml

Deadlines

Pre-Application:

May 11, 2016

5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)

Extramural Application:

August 22, 2016

5:00 p.m. ET

Extramural Application Verification

Period:

August 29, 2016

5:00 p.m. ET

Intramural Application:

August 29, 2016

5:00 p.m. ET

A pre-application is required and must be submitted through the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) at https://eBRAP.org prior to the pre-application deadline. All applications must conform to the final Program Announcements and General Application Instructions available for electronic downloading from the Grants.gov website. The application package containing the required forms for each award mechanism will also be found on Grants.gov. A listing of all CDMRP funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420.

Applications must be submitted through the federal government's single-entry portal, Grants.gov. For email notification when Program Announcements are released, go to the CDMRP website (http://cdmrp.army.mil) and select Subscribe to Funding Opportunities & Program Communications. For more information about the DMRDP or other CDMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP website (http://cdmrp.army.mil).

Point of Contact:

CDMRP Help Desk
301-682-5507
help@eBrap.org

A limited number of Travel Awards to PhD or MD/PhD students, and post-doctoral/medical/clinical fellows are available. The purpose of this program is to defray the travel costs associated with making a scientific presentation as a first author or presenter at a conference, symposium or other appropriate professional meeting.

The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) award provides $500,000 over five years to support accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the interplay between human and microbial biology, shedding light on how human and microbial systems are affected by their encounters. 

 Mitacs is pleased offer the Mitacs Globalink Early Career Fellowship - Brazil. This initiative provides funding for postdoctoral fellows from Brazil to undertake 12-month research projects in Canada.

The fellowship supports research in:

• Biodiversity and conservation; climate science; environmental science; sustainable development
• Coal technology
• Engineering; environmental engineering; minerals processing and metallurgical engineering; mining engineering
• Geology; geomechanics; geophysics; hydrogeology; marine geosciences
• GIS and remote sensing
• Renewable energies
• Smart grids

Contact your colleagues in Brazil to get started or visit our website to learn more.

Applications are due May 24, 2016, at 7:59 p.m. PDT, for projects starting September 2016–January 15, 2017.

TheCanadian Science Policy Fellowship is now accepting applications for one-year fellowships with the Government of Canada:

• Open to PhD holders in all academic disciplines
• Postdoctoral fellows (no university affiliation required) and faculty members at Mitacs full and associate partner universities eligible to apply
• Competitive stipend and travel grant
• Offered in partnership with Mitacs partner universities, the Government of Canada, and the University of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP)

 Deadlines:

• February 17, 2016: call for applications opens
• April 10, 2016: call closes
• September 12, 2016: fellowships begin
• August 31, 2017: fellowships end

To learn more, visit the Canadian Science Policy Fellowship web page, or contact us at policyfellowship@mitacs.ca.

The Robert Bertram Doctoral Research Awards have been established to promote Canadian-based research on corporate governance and build Canada’s corporate governance research capacity by encouraging the next generation of young scholars.

Eligibility

To qualify to apply for a Robert Bertram Doctoral Research Award you must be a full-time student registered at a recognized Canadian university in September 2016. You must be a senior doctoral student undertaking studies that include significant original, autonomous research that leads to the completion of a dissertation or major scholarly publication. You must not have exceeded the allowable number of years already spent in doctoral study, as set out by your university. You must not have previously been awarded a Robert Bertram Doctoral Research Award.

Value and Duration

The annual awards of up to $15,000 are to be expended by November 2017 and will be used to support the direct costs of the doctoral student’s research.

Targeted Areas of Research

Research proposals should address questions within one or more of the following broad targeted areas of research:

• Corporate governance issues of practical interest to Canadian directors and boards of Canadian public, private, government-agency and not-for-profit organizations;
• Corporate governance best practices through the Canadian perspective; and
• The role of directors in the governance process and the criteria deemed necessary to be an effective director.

The Blue Economy Challenge: Launching a Blue Revolution for Aquaculture: This challenge aims to find solutions to three important issues of aquaculture: 1) Rethinking feed for aquaculture 2) New ocean products and 3) Sustainable design by encouraging innovations that will revolutionize aquaculture in the developing world with a focus on the Indian Ocean region, where transformations in aquaculture can help eradicate poverty, end hunger, and preserve ecosystems.

Application deadline is June 30, 2016. For more information please visit http://www.theblueeconomychallenge.org