The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invites applications for challenge grants in the field of Dynamic Imaging. This Request for Applications (RFA) aims to advance technology directed at real-time visualization of biological processes at the level of cells and molecules.

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

On-road transportation accounts for about 20 percent of Canada’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Reducing transportation emissions is critical to achieving the Government’s ambitious climate change commitments and is consistent with the global shift toward zero-emission vehicles (ZEV).

To accelerate the path to net-zero, the Government of Canada has set a mandatory target for all new light-duty cars and passenger truck sales to be ZEVs by 2035. However, nationwide surveys consistently show that a lack of awareness, knowledge and public confidence in ZEVs is a key barrier to adoption on a wider scale. Addressing gaps in ZEV knowledge and experience for consumers and businesses is therefore critical to supporting Canadians through the decision-making process to purchasing a ZEV.

A unique opportunity to educate Canadians

The Zero Emission Vehicles Awareness Initiative (ZEVAI) is looking to fund new and innovative projects that aim to address awareness and knowledge gaps among Canadians on light-duty ZEVs and ZEV technologies, including battery electric (BEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles. This stream is also open to battery-powered micro-mobility solutions (i.e., small, lightweight vehicles operating at low speeds, including scooters, e-bikes, and cargo e-bikes). A separate call out for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles will follow at a later time.

NSERC invites applications for initiatives that promote the natural sciences and engineering (NSE) to Canada’s young people, particularly to under-represented groups in NSE careers, including girls and Indigenous peoples.* Taking equity and diversity into account, NSERC may support additional meritorious applications that focus on under-represented groups if sufficient funds become available. PromoScience supports activities and content designed for youth in elementary school and high school (including those in the equivalent first year of college in Quebec), and their teachers, and activities that will encourage Indigenous undergraduate students to pursue graduate studies in the NSE.

Connection Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Connection program.

These grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage with participants on research issues of value to them. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant can often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.

Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, or other events or outreach activities that facilitate:

• disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the social sciences and humanities;
• scholarly exchanges between those working in the social sciences and humanities and those working in other research fields;
• intersectoral exchanges between academic researchers in the social sciences and humanities and researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors; and/or
• international research collaboration and scholarly exchanges with researchers, students and non-academic partners from other countries.

Only a Canadian institution that holds institutional eligibility can administer funds. However, the intellectual leadership and governance for Connection Grant activities can come from within the research community and/or from within the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors.

SSHRC welcomes applications involving Indigenous research, as well as those involving research-creation.

Insight Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Insight program.

Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years.

Stable support for long-term research initiatives is central to advancing knowledge. It enables scholars to address complex issues about individuals and societies, and to further our collective understanding.

Insight Grants support research proposed by scholars and judged worthy of funding by their peers and/or other experts. Insight Grant research initiatives can be undertaken by an individual researcher or a team of researchers working in collaboration.

Applicants choose from one of two streams, depending on the amount of funding required. Both streams will be adjudicated by the same committees, and will receive the same rigorous level of merit review. The deadlines and application process are identical for both; however, the targeted success rate for Stream A is higher than for Stream B.

SSHRC welcomes applications involving Indigenous research, as well as those involving research-creation.

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships are expected to respond to the objectives of the Talent program.

These fellowships support the most promising Canadian new scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and assist them in establishing a research base at an important time in their research careers.

The purpose of these fellowships is to provide stipendiary support to recent PhD graduates who are:

• undertaking original research;
• publishing research findings;
• developing and expanding personal research networks;
• broadening their teaching experience;
• preparing for research-intensive careers within and beyond academia; and
• preparing to become competitive in national research grant competitions.

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship awards are tenable at Canadian or foreign universities and research institutions.

SSHRC welcomes applications involving Indigenous research, as well as those involving research-creation.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to:

• Create new knowledge through the analysis of existing cohorts, data platforms and/or administrative datasets specific to reproductive, maternal, child, and/or youth health, and in turn improve health outcomes and inform population and public health decision making.

The FY22 RTRP funding opportunity announcements for the following award mechanisms are posted on the Grants.gov website. 

Funding Opportunities-FY21 Reconstructive Transplant Research Program, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) (army.mil)

Investigator-Initiated Research Award – Preproposal due July 27, 2022

Independent investigators at all academic levels (or equivalent)

• ·      Supports studies with the potential to make an important contribution to the reconstructive transplant research field, patient care, and/or quality of life.
• ·      Pre-application submission is required; application submission is by invitation only.
• ·      Applications must address at least one of the FY22 RTRP Investigator-Initiated Research Award Focus Areas.
• ·      Preliminary and/or published data relevant to reconstructive transplantation and support the rationale for the proposal research are required.
• ·      Multiple Principal Investigator (PI) Option:
• ·      Supports synergistic partnerships among two to four investigators collaborating on a single application.

Single PI:

• ·        Maximum funding of $1 million (M) for total costs (direct plus indirect costs).
  • ·        Maximum period of performance is 3 years.

Multiple PI Option:

• ·        Maximum total funding of $1.5M for total costs (direct plus indirect costs).
• ·        Maximum period of performance is 3 years.

Advanced Technology Development Award – Preproposal due July 27, 2022

Independent investigators at all academic levels (or equivalent)

• ·      Supports research critical for the translation of promising preclinical findings into products focused on reconstructive transplantation.
• ·      Pre-application submission is required; application submission is by invitation only.
• ·      Applications must address at least one of the FY22 RTRP Advanced Technology Development Award Focus Areas.
• ·      Preproposal is required; full application submission is by invitation only.
• ·      Preliminary and/or published data relevant to reconstructive transplantation and support for the rationale for the proposed research are required.
• ·      Multiple Principal Investigator (PI) Option:

Supports synergistic partnerships among two to four investigators collaborating on a single application; multi-institutional collaborations are encouraged.

Single PI:

• ·        Maximum funding of $1M for total costs (direct plus indirect costs).
  • ·        Maximum period of performance is 3 years.

Multiple PI Option:

• ·        Maximum total funding of $1.5M for total costs (direct plus indirect costs).
• Maximum period of performance is 3 years.

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

The FY22 RTRP funding opportunity announcements for the following award mechanisms are posted on the Grants.gov website.

Funding Opportunities-FY21 Reconstructive Transplant Research Program, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) (army.mil)

Concept Award – Letter of Intent due September 28, 2022

Independent investigators at or above the level of postdoctoral fellow (or equivalent)

• ·      Supports the exploration of a highly innovative new concept or untested theory that addresses an important problem relevant to reconstructive transplantation.
• ·      Applications must address at least one of the FY22 RTRP Concept Award Focus Areas.
• ·      Preliminary data are NOT allowed.
• ·      Reviewers at both tiers of review will be blinded to the identities of the PI, collaborators, and their organizations.
• ·      Maximum funding of $200,000 for total costs (direct plus indirect costs).
• ·      Maximum period of performance is 18 months.

A pre-application is required and must be submitted through the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) at https://eBRAP.org prior to the pre-application deadline.  All applications must conform to the final funding opportunity announcements available for downloading from the Grants.gov website.  The application package containing the required forms for each award mechanism can be found on Grants.gov.  A listing of all CDMRP and other USAMRDC extramural funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420. 

For email notification when announcements are released, subscribe to program-specific news and updates under “Email Subscriptions” on the eBRAP homepage at https://eBRAP.org.  For more information about the RTRP or other CDMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP website (https://cdmrp.army.mil).

Point of Contact:

CDMRP Help Desk
301-682-5507
help@eBrap.org

For more information, please contact Jill Sherman, International Research Facilitator, at int.research@lakeheadu.ca.