The Forest Sector Investment and Innovation Program (FSIIP) provides funding for strategic investments in the forest sector that:

• improve productivity and innovation
• enhance competitiveness
• support new market access
• provide benefits to Ontario’s broader forest sector
• strengthen regional economies

Support is available under two project categories – business projects and collaboration projects.

Responsive grants fund community-led initiatives that improve access to justice. Responsive grants aim to encourage new projects that fill existing legal gaps, supplement existing services, or otherwise help address emerging needs by connecting more people to legal information and support, especially people who are not currently being reached.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to provide seed funding to:

• build relationships among researchers, People with Lived/Living Experience (PWLE), communities, health care professionals and others with a view to developing inclusive, equitable and culturally safe iCTs;
• mobilize research collaborations aimed at identifying priorities for iCT research; and,
• develop new and transformative methods relevant to iCTs, with the potential to generate high impact results.

Examples of activities that might be conducted under this funding opportunity include (but are not restricted to):

• Building relationships through meaningful engagement and consultation with different stakeholders and partners and conducting engagement sessions to inform iCT research design and culturally safe approaches;
• Planning and execution of pilot projects or feasibility studies to demonstrate proof of concept and/or generate preliminary data;
• Developing and/or validating new tools, methodologies and/or protocols.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• To promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion–informed, cutting-edge, creative and outside the box research that has the potential to challenge, overturn or create new paradigms in high-priority areas of women's health.
• To test highly innovative ideas and obtain the results necessary to catalyze new research or commercialization efforts that could subsequently be funded by larger grants.

After partnering to fund 18 high impact research internships across Canada in 2021 and 2022 Mitacs and  Scotiabank are launching a third round of the Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund (SERRF).

SERRF is designed to help reduce the financial barriers for charities and not for profit organizations to access expertise from Canadian Academic Institutions through the Mitacs Accelerate program.

Through this third round of the program SERRF funding will be awarded to up to 50 research internship projects to occur in the fall 2023.

The SERRF has been launched to support research projects in three key focus areas that are central to Scotiabank’s ScotiaRise initiative:

1. Accelerate newcomer integration
   Proposed research projects will explore the experiences of newcomers to Canada (in the past three years) including immigrants, refugees, and temporary foreign workers to help fast track meaningful employment for newcomers to the country. Integration essentials might include language, culture and life skills, training and help qualifying for and finding employment, and support networks.

2. Increase high school graduation and post-secondary participation

Proposed research projects will target disadvantaged populations, including Canadian Indigenous communities and at-risk youth to ultimately facilitate a higher rate of high school graduation and post-secondary participation. Post-secondary education is defined broadly, to include university, college, and trades programs.

3. Remove barriers to career advancement for disadvantaged groups

Proposed research projects should be focused on one or more equity seeking groups that face obstacles of sexism, racism, or homophobia (e.g., people with disability, Indigenous, veterans, LGBTQ, women, and BIPOC). The project should determine how to remove barriers to meaningful employment and find solutions to career entry and advancement.

Successful projects will receive up to $12,750 in funding from Scotiabank and Mitacs to support a four to six month Mitacs Accelerate internship. The funding contribution from the SERRF program reduces the required contribution from the not for profit or charity partner organization from $7,500 to $3,750.

This opportunity is time limited and interested projects must submit an Expression of Interest by April 5, 2023

More detail about the Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund and application process can be found in the program guide

For further information or to start the EOI development process please contact ncummings@mitacs.ca or reach out directly to serrf@mitacs.ca

Since 1993, the Canadian Cancer Society has recognized individuals who have made, and are making, valuable contributions to the cancer research ecosystem in Canada through our Awards for Excellence in Cancer Research.

The CCS is pleased to launch the 2022 Awards for Excellence in Cancer Research nomination process. To see the 2021 winners of these awards, please visit their webpage.

The nomination deadline is Monday, May 1, 2023 at 5pm ET.

The Canadian Cancer Society Inclusive Excellence Prize

This award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated leadership and impact in the advancement of equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility as it relates to the cancer research ecosystem in Canada.

The Canadian Cancer Society Lifetime Contribution Prize

This award recognizes an investigator whose contributions to cancer research in Canada extend beyond traditional research accomplishments and outputs.

The Canadian Cancer Society Robert L. Noble Prize

This award recognizes an outstanding investigator permanently residing in Canada whose contributions have led to significant achievements in basic biomedical cancer research.

The Canadian Cancer Society O. Harold Warwick Prize

This award recognizes an outstanding investigator permanently residing in Canada whose contributions have led to significant advances in cancer control in Canada.

The Canadian Cancer Society Bernard and Francine Dorval Prize

This award is given to an outstanding early career investigator* in Canada whose basic biomedical cancer research contributions have the potential to lead to, or have already led to, improved understanding of cancer treatments and/or cures.

The Canadian Cancer Society William E. Rawls Prize 

This award is given to an outstanding early career investigator* in Canada whose research in cancer control research has the potential to lead to, or has already led to, important advances in cancer control.

*Those who began their independent research career after December 31, 2009 are eligible for nomination.

For more information, click here. Please read the guidelines carefully to ensure that nominations are submitted correctly by the deadline.

If any of these prizes are of interest, please contact please contact Dr. Batia Stolar, Associate Vice-President, Research & Graduate Studies, at avp.research@lakeheadu.ca