A Call for Proposals (CFP) is being administered by CIMVHR to identify a researcher/research team that will be able to successfully undertake an environmental scan that will outline the current landscape of community-based clinical art therapies, including, art, music, dance & movement therapy programming currently available across Canada, inclusive of civilian, as well as military and Veteran members. Insights on the current clinical therapies that leverage the role of the arts in rehabilitation and recovery should also be included to provide a more complete overview of the landscape in which community-based programs are offered.

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

Program details are below – feel free to circulate to interested researchers.

Please review the highlighted portion below carefully and research areas here before proceeding with an EOI or submitting questions.

1.       Eligibility

a.       Master and PhD students and postdoc fellows at Mitacs partner colleges and universities in Canada

b.       Expressions of interest must identify academic supervisor, intern and Mitacs eligible not-for-profit partner organization. Partner organizations, interns, and academic supervisors CANNOT be substituted later in the application process.

c.       Project focus must align with one of three SERRF research areas identified by Scotiabank below

• Accelerate newcomer integration
• Increase high school graduation and post-secondary participation
• Remove barriers to career advancement for disadvantaged groups

2.       Timeline: SERRF is a very competitive program with two stages:
Stage 1: Expression of Interest due November 15, 2021, to serrf@mitacs.ca. In January 2022 successful applicants will be invited to submit a full Accelerate proposal
Stage 2:  Full Accelerate proposals due to the BDs for submission in February 2022. Deadline for BDs to submit to the call mailbox (serrf@mitacs.ca) is March 1, 2022,
Projects must start by May 15, 2022, and are expected to run over summer 2022 (1IU 4–6 months)

3.       Funding breakdown

*Note—the intern stipend top up for BIPOC students has been reduced for this round from $5,000 to $1,500 to enable funding for more projects.

4.       There is a dedicated mailbox for questions: serrf@mitacs.ca.

This three-year leadership program is designed to train Engaged Leaders, equipping outstanding doctoral candidates with the skills to translate their ideas into action, for the betterment of their communities, Canada, and the world. Scholars are selected each year and receive leadership training in the context of Brave Spaces, in addition to generous funding for their studies.

To apply to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholarship, you must meet the following eligibility criteria:

1) You must be already accepted into or in year one or two of a full-time doctoral program, and expected to complete your doctoral studies in 2025 or later.

2) Your field of study is broadly related to the humanities or human sciences of direct relevance to the future of Canada;

3) Your doctoral work must relate to at least one of the Foundation’s Four Themes: Human Rights and Dignity, Responsible Citizenship, Canada and the World, People and their Natural Environment.

4) Be a Canadian citizen studying at a Canadian or foreign institution, or a non-Canadian (permanent resident of Canada or foreign national) enrolled in a doctoral program at a Canadian institution.

Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP) provides a total of $60,000 over three years to support the career development activities for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows in a degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada whose training and professional development are guided by mentors committed to helping them advance to stellar careers in biomedical or medical research.

he Eureka SMART Cluster has launched its 5th call for proposals for research, development and innovation (R&D&I) projects.

SMART is a flexible, industry-driven Eureka Cluster program whose aim is to promote collaborative, international, and close-to-market R&D&I projects in advanced manufacturing.

Open to:

• small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
• large enterprises and industries
• universities
• research organizations
• others

Sector of focus:

Advanced manufacturing with a focus on:

• advanced manufacturing processes
• intelligent and adaptive manufacturing systems
• digital, virtual and efficient companies
• person-Machine collaboration
• sustainable manufacturing
• customer-based manufacturing

If this opportunity is of interest, please contact Jill Sherman, International Research Facilitator at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.