Description: To establish research projects aimed at improving the understanding of the complex and multifactorial pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases through multi-OMICS (branches of science known informally as omics are various disciplines in biology whose names end in the suffix – omics, such as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics) and Big Data approaches designed to find new drug targets and target biomarkers for the development of tailored and personalized treatment approaches.

Funding: $666,000 from the CIHR Institute of Aging to support the Canadian component of up to two transnational teams, over four years. Maximum amount per grant is $333,000, over four years.

Deadline: 7 March 2023 (pre-proposal); 27 June 2023 (full proposal).

Please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca for more information.

Description: The objective of the call is to take action against the growing global threat of increasing resistance in pathogenic organisms, and the spread of anti-microbial resistance (AMR). JPIAMR calls on the scientific community to develop or improve existing tools and digital technologies for (1) AMR diagnosis and/or (2) One Health AMR surveillance.

Funding: $1.8M from the CIHR AMR Ring-Fenced Initiative to support the Canadian component of up to three transnational teams, over three years. If the team coordinator is Canadian, the maximum amount per grant is $600K over three years, whereas Canadian team partners may receive $500K over three years.

Deadline: 7 March 2023 (pre-proposal); 4 July 2023 (full proposal)

Please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca for more information.

This funding opportunity is meant to encourage innovative, unorthodox, and exploratory research that may be in the early and conceptual stages of project development but has potential for significant impact on our understanding of the brain.

Open to early-career investigators within five years of starting their first independent research position, the 2022 competition has an overall funding envelope of $2,500,000 to support up to 25 grants of $100,000 over two years.

Evidence clearly shows that increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research environments enhances excellence, innovation, and creativity. Brain Canada is committed to excellence through equity, and we encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply to our funding opportunities, which will promote the expression of diverse perspectives, approaches, and experiences, including those of underrepresented groups.

Click here to view the Request for Applications.

Deadline for receipt of Letter of Intent: January 16, 2023 at 5 p.m. ET

Deadline for receipt of Full Applications: April 6, 2023 at 5 p.m. ET

For more information, or if you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact Brain Canada at futureleaders@braincanada.ca.

Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is issuing a call to organizations in Canada entitled “International Youth Internship Program (IYIP) 2023-2028.” The IYIP is funded by the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS), which is implemented by 12 federal departments to help young Canadians gain the skills and work experience they need to make a successful transition to the labour market. IYIP participants will complete international development internships aligned with Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

The program is valued at $29.76 million over a 5-year period.

GAC expects to fund project proposals of at least $2 million and up to $4.9 million. Submitting the project proposal is the only stage in this call. GAC may fund several proposals or none, up to the maximum funding available.

This call aims to provide Canadians aged 18 to 30, especially youth facing barriers to employment*, with an opportunity to acquire:

• professional experience abroad (or, in some cases, virtually) in the field of international development
• skills to prepare them for future employment or further education

*Definition of “youth facing barriers to employment” for the purposes of this call for proposals: persons between the ages of 18 and 30 who belong to or identify themselves as members of a group that faces discrimination, such as people living with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, racialized youth and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

As an organization can only submit one application to this competition, interested applicants are asked to contact the Office of Research Services (ahacquo1@lakeheadu.ca) to indicate their interest in this program no later than January 5, 2022.  For more information, please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Empower and support communities and researchers to collaboratively adapt, implement and evaluate healthy cities interventions with the ultimate goals of maximizing the success, long-term sustainability, health and equity-promoting potential of interventions
• Build capacity among knowledge users and implementers to continually monitor and improve urban environments to meet the needs of people of all ages, abilities, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds

STAGE I: REGISTRATION
The Registration stage is the first opportunity for applicants to describe their ideas that will enhance early detection, warning, and response to infectious diseases. The ideas should address the vision of AI4PEP: deepen the understanding of how responsible AI solutions can improve public health preparedness and response. For example, the ideas could address one or more of the Themes and or Pillars described below. The ideas should be ambitious enough to sustain the active engagement of outstanding researchers for at least five years and should also have a longer-term vision. The applicants are required to have at least one knowledge user (either from industry, civil society or policy maker) as a partner (preferably co-applicant). We expect the knowledge users to be identified at this stage so as to encourage meaningful and authentic collaboration. After a review of registrations by a selected international panel of reviewers, all eligible registrations will be invited to submit a letter of Intent (LOI).

For more information, please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.