Building upon the original goals of the BWF Preterm Birth Initiative, a recently convened Pregnancy Think Tank has helped shape the next generation of BWF preterm birth awards. Growing evidence suggests the interrelatedness of the duration of pregnancy, fetal growth, and adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, stillbirth, and maternal medical complications including maternal mortality.

Other areas of interest are climate change and environmental impact on pregnancy, complications associated with ART, and epigenome-wide association studies.

We seek to expand the scope of this award mechanism to capture these and other pregnancy outcomes as we believe they will be mutually informative and accelerate discovery. Each award will continue to provide up to $500,000 over a four-year period ($125,000 per year).

The initiative is designed to stimulate both creative individual scientists and multi-investigator teams to approach healthy and adverse pregnancy outcomes using creative basic and translation science methods. The formation of new connections between reproductive scientists and investigators who are involved in other areas is particularly encouraged.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has launched a Knowledge Synthesis Grants funding opportunity to assess the state of research knowledge on the topic of “The Emerging Asocial Society”, under SSHRC’s Imagining Canada’s Future initiative.

This call for proposals focuses on the state of knowledge from research on issues related to the growing sense of disconnection, isolation and loneliness in Canadian society. The resulting syntheses will identify roles that the academic, public, private and not-for-profit sectors may play in promoting more connected and resilient communities, and may inform the development of effective tools, robust policies and sustainable practices required to support the transition to a more equitable, healthy and prosperous future.

The deadline for applications is December 17, 2021. For more information on the call for proposals, please contact: ksg-ssc@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca.

The WSIB is now accepting proposals for the 2022 Research and Grants Competition!

Initial proposal deadline: Friday, October 15, 2021

The WSIB Research and Grants Program aims to enhance workers’ compensation system outcomes by supporting innovative proposals that align to the WSIB's strategic mandate. The proposals funded through the program will help to strengthen Ontario's workers' compensation system and deliver on our priority of making Ontario a safer place to work.

Research Priorities

The 2022 WSIB Research and Grants Program will focus on research that can help make Ontario the safest place to work. Three considerations for the competition include:

1)            How we work

2)            How we approach health and safety

3)            How we support return-to-work and recovery

The Research and Grants Program is committed to supporting the WSIB’s strategic priority of being financially responsible and accountable through the operating practices of the program on an ongoing basis.

Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals that align to the topics of interest identified. Highly practical research and training proposals aligned to the three primary considerations are also accepted.

For more information about the program and the application process, please visit our website.

The objective of the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Transformation stream is to support large-scale, Canadian-led interdisciplinary research projects that address a major challenge with the potential to realize real and lasting change. The challenge may be fundamental, leading to a scientific breakthrough, or applied, with a social, economic, environmental or health impact. Projects are expected to be world-leading, drawing on global research expertise, when relevant.

Transformation stream grants will support projects that:

1. tackle a well-defined problem or challenge;
2. propose a novel world-leading approach that is different from the current state-of-the-art approaches to the issue;
3. are interdisciplinary, bringing different perspectives to the defined problem; and
4. have the potential to be transformative, defined as the potential to create a significant and real change or impact—a noticeable leap or tangible breakthrough rather than an incremental advance.

• If you are interested in applying to this program, please contact Jill Sherman, International Research Facilitator at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

The primary purpose is to fund early career researchers to a one-year grant to explore collaborative opportunities with their Indian counterparts. The funds are related to developing solutions to our pressing problems of food insecurity. Both Research (STREAM 1) and Demonstration Projects (STREAM 2) will be funded.

Please contact Jill Sherman, International Research Facilitator, at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca if this program is of interest.

The Fellowship specifically funds research designed to enhance the resilience of Canada’s health systems. Fellowship recipients will be eligible to receive $450,000 in funding over the course of three years. The HRF and its Fellowship Selection Committee invite researchers from recognized academic institutions across Canada to submit their applications by October 4, 2021.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to generate and share knowledge that will achieve one or more of the following:

• Improve understanding of barriers to and opportunities for positive physical, social, and mental health outcomes for LGBTQIA/2S individuals, families and communities whose health is impacted by the intersections of their sexual orientation, gender, race/ethnicity, experiences of racism, and/or additional intersecting social identities, positions and processes, including but not limited to ableism, age, classism, disability, faith, heterosexism, homophobia, immigrant and/or refugee status, Indigeneity, language, transphobia and xenophobia.
• Inform the implementation and/or sustainability and scale-up of new or existing community-based interventions to improve health and wellness for LGBTQIA/2S communities from an intersectional perspective.
• Evaluate the reach, effectiveness, and benefits of community-based interventions to improve health and wellness for LGBTQIA/2S communities from an intersectional perspective.

Budget 2021 proposed $319 million over seven years for innovation in Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS). These funds will bring together businesses, academia, non-profits, industry, government, and federal laboratories on the path to net-zero emissions by 2050.

This is the first call for CCUS project proposals by the Office of Energy Research and Development (OERD) with a focus on Front-End Engineering Design studies. Future calls will be announced on the OERD Energy Innovation Program web page.

1.1 Call overview: Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) Studies

Although CCUS technologies have been deployed and demonstrated at large scale at various sites in Canada - such as the Quest and Boundary Dam projects - the application of CCUS across industry remains nascent, with a limited number of commercial scale facilities in operation globally. To ensure that CCUS technologies have an opportunity to be deployed broadly in industries that have limited options to decarbonize by 2050, more facilities need to be demonstrated at scale.

A critical and costly step in this process is completing a FEED study. Performing a FEED study helps reduce the technical and commercial risk of a project to the point where an investment decision can be made to proceed with construction. It also provides an opportunity to evaluate and benchmark near commercial technologies helping them to come to market