Canada–UK–US call for proposals: Enhancing Resilience to Wildfires in the Wildland-Urban Interface

This is a joint initiative between the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). This initiative will support collaborative research to improve understanding of and resilience to wildfire occurrence and impacts in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Research teams are encouraged to adopt interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches.

NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR each expect to allocate $3M to this call (total Canadian investment of $9M). Each agency expects to fund four projects, with a duration of three years. The number of awards and funding level are subject to each agency’s availability of funds.

Interdisciplinary projects are welcomed but not required. Projects may request budget from one, two or all three Canadian funding agencies. Each agency’s maximum budget request for a project is $750K total ($250K per year, per agency). The maximum level of Canadian support for a three-year interdisciplinary project would be $2.25M if the maximum budget was granted from NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR.