The Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP) provides $60,000 over three years to support the career development activities for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows in a degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada whose training and professional development are guided by mentors committed to helping them advance to stellar careers in biomedical or medical research.

Partnership Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Research partnerships program. Proposals exclusively for partnered research training initiatives are expected to respond, instead, to the objectives of the Research training and talent development program.

These grants provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over four to seven years to advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities. This is done through mutual co-operation and sharing of intellectual leadership, as well as through resources as shown by cash and/or in-kind contributions.

Partnership Grants are intended for large teams of postsecondary institutions and/or organizations of various types that work in formal collaboration.

The quality of training, mentoring and employability plans for students and emerging scholars will be evaluated as an important part of the proposed initiative. SSHRC’s Guidelines for Effective Research Training explain how students and emerging scholars can meaningfully participate in proposed initiatives.

The intellectual leadership and governance for a new or existing formal partnership can come from the research community and/or from partner organizations from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. However, only an institution that meets institutional eligibility requirements can administer the grant funding. For more information, see Eligibility.

SSHRC’s Partnerships Tool-kit offers tools and resources to assist in the planning and implementation of your partnership.

As these are complex grants, please contact the Office of Research (sshrc.research@lakeheadu.ca) at least two months in advance of the SSHRC deadline to indicate your interest in this program.

The CIHR-IA Summer Program in Aging (SPA) is an intensive 5-day capacity-building program with the aim of providing graduate with advanced training that crosses disciplines, offers networking opportunities, and disseminates best practices in research. SPA has been held yearly across Canada since 2006 on a different strategic theme each year. The program brings together up to 40 research trainees and numerous academic mentors to participate in interactive learning sessions over the course of one week. The strategic theme for SPA 2024 will be Ageism in Health Research, Delivery, and Outcomes in Older Adults.

OICR’s Clinical Translation Pathway (CTP) supports practice-changing research in biomarkers and therapeutics that will advance early detection and intervention research and have a clear path to the clinic and clinical impact.

OICR is currently inviting applications for one of the CTP funding streams, Pre-Clinical Acceleration Team Awards (Pre-CATA), to support pre-clinical projects focused on clinical biomarker and therapeutic development.

Funding available: Up to $250,000 per year for up to three years. OICR anticipates supporting up to eight Pre-CATA projects.

Compute Ontario is pleased to announce a call for proposals to develop and share high-quality training or support materials that are designed to improve awareness, understanding, and use of digital research infrastructure (DRI).  This call reflects our mandate to support Ontario researchers who make use of advanced research computing, research software, and research data management (RDM).

Training/support materials may focus on one or more topics, disciplines or aspects of DRI. The target audience for these materials includes researchers and those who support research, such as RDM librarians, data specialists, ethics officers, and administrators. The focus of this call is development of content. Eligible applicants include individuals or groups from Ontario post-secondary institutions, research institutes, or research hospitals. Collaborative partnerships are welcomed. Selected projects will be reimbursed for eligible expenses up to a maximum of $75,000.

Submission deadline: November 6, 2023, 5 p.m. Project completion deadline: March 31, 2024. More information can be found here. 

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), in partnership with SSHRC, has launched the new Partnership Engage Grants joint initiative, entitled “Advancing Socio-Economic Research for Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making", to identify and advance socio-economic research for evidence-based public health decision-making on selected public health priority topics in Canada.  

The joint initiative provides short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform public health decision-making and are grouped under 6 broad categories with specific research themes in each category. Applicants are required to apply to 1 of the 12 specific themes. 

The Partnership Engage Grants funded through this joint initiative will be valued at $7000 to $25,000 for 1 year, and PHAC aims to fund up to 12 grants. SSHRC will administer the funding opportunity and will work with PHAC to promote the funding opportunity to researchers in all fields. 

For more information about this funding opportunity, including application instructions, please visit the PHAC website. 

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to recognize exemplary work and build capacity in the six (6) cross-cutting research domains of a healthy research ecosystem in keeping with both the CIHR Strategic Plan 2021-31 and the CIHR-IMHA Strategic Plan 2021-26.

The Climate Action and Awareness Fund (CAAF) is investing up to $206 million over five years to support Canadian-made projects that help to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. The CAAF is designed to support projects that can create middle class jobs for Canadians who work in science and technology, academia, and at the grassroots community level. These projects are critical as we continue to build a sustainable net-zero emissions economy by 2050.