The HFSP fellowship program supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. Applications for high-risk projects are particularly encouraged. The projects should be interdisciplinary in nature and should challenge existing paradigms by using novel approaches and techniques. Scientifically, they should address an important problem or a barrier to progress in the field.

HFSP postdoctoral fellowships encourage early career scientists to broaden their research skills by moving into new areas of study while working in a new country.

Two different fellowships are available:

Long-Term Fellowships (LTF) are for applicants with a PhD on a biological topic who want to embark on a novel and frontier project focussing on the life sciences.

Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF) are for applicants who hold a doctoral degree from a non-biological discipline (e.g. physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or computer sciences) and who have not worked in the life sciences before.

There is only one competition per year for HFSP Fellowships. Applications for the 2024 HFSP Long-Term and Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (to start in 2024) will follow a two-step submission process via the online submission platform ProposalCentral. Firstly, applicants will be asked to submit a Letter of Intent from which the review committee will select the best proposals. In a second step, successful applicants will be invited to submit a Full Proposal.

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

Eureka has launched a multilateral call for proposals for joint research and development (R&D) projects in the field of lightweighting. Participating countries include Canada, Austria, Belgium (Flanders & Wallonia), France, Luxembourg, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

This call for proposals is open to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from Canada who wish to form project consortia to perform collaborative projects focused on developing innovative products, processes, or technology-based services.

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

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Enable scientists in different countries to build an effective collaboration on a common interdisciplinary research project based on complementarities and sharing of expertise, with expected impact to use the results in the future for benefit of patients.
• Conduct efficient, innovative and high-quality natural history studies which will facilitate the understanding of the progression of rare diseases - or group of disorders - throughout the lifespan of a patient. The goal of these studies is to collect and analyse comprehensive patient data to define targets for future therapies, taking into consideration innovation, safety, and efficacy.

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

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Reduce health inequity by accelerating innovative research and solutions which address STBBI risk, prevalence and treatment with a particular focus on key populations; 
• Enhance inclusive and team-based research in STBBI research, which meaningfully engages people with lived and living experience and adheres to principles of equity, diversity and inclusion in research; and
• Advance the co-creation and dissemination of knowledge that benefits the affected communities, decision-makers and other stakeholders focused on decreasing of STBBI impact on health of Canadians.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Enable STBBI researchers to generate preliminary observations, data or knowledge necessary to pursue longer-term research funding in STBBI research;
• Support original, high quality STBBI projects and provide researchers the opportunity to pursue high risk health research questions which have the potential to generate novel, innovative and high impact results; and
• Stimulate innovation in STBBI research by promoting cross-disciplinary research collaborations between STBBI researchers and experts in other relevant fields in Canada.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• Catalyze community-led research planning and development activities that ensure the inclusion and meaningful representation of people living with and at risk of HIV/AIDS and/or STBBI;
• Foster meaningful and equitable partnerships between communities most impacted by HIV/AIDS and/or STBBI and researchers to advance research focused on community-driven priorities;
• Engage communities in strengthening capacity for knowledge mobilization; and/or
• Develop applications for Community-Based Research grants in the areas of HIV and/or other STBBI.

Our grants support and encourage legal writing that is of value to Canadian lawyers, notaries and judges in their day-to-day work in the law and in the administration of justice. Our grants are generally in amounts greater than $5,000 and less than or equal to $15,000.

The 2023 Catalyst Funding Program in Healthy Aging aims to identify and support emerging research in technology-enabled healthy aging, foster networking and collaboration, and build capacity in aging innovation research in Canada.

It is expected that small-scale projects or pilot studies funded through this call will provide a foundation for future larger research projects or funding applications.