The Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP) funds downstream research and development (R&D) projects that address real world opportunities and challenges defined by “Receptor” organizations such as industry, government, or not-for-profit entities. These organizations should be committed to commercializing or implementing the outcomes of the project. Projects are led by the Receptor organization (Canadian or international) but are active collaborations with a Canadian academic researcher. These projects are co-funded by Receptors and other stakeholders and must have the potential to generate significant social and/or economic benefits for Canada. The GAPP aims to:

• Accelerate the application of Canadian genomics-derived solutions from academia to real-world opportunities and challenges defined by industry, not-for-profit and public-sector Receptors.
• Channel Canada’s genomics capacity into sustainable innovations that benefit Canadians.
• Enhance the value of Canadian genomics technologies by de-risking and incentivizing follow-on investment from industry and other partners.
• Foster mutually beneficial collaboration and knowledge exchange between Canadian academia and technology receptors.

About the Award

BWF's Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI) provide $500,000 over five years to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service. These awards are open to U.S. and Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and temporary residents.

Details

These grants are intended to foster the early career development of researchers who have transitioned or are transitioning from undergraduate and/or graduate work in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences, and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research.

Scientific advances such as genomics, quantitative structural biology, imaging techniques, and modeling of complex systems have created opportunities for exciting research careers at the interface between the physical/computational sciences and the biological sciences. Tackling key problems in biology will require scientists trained in areas such as chemistry, physics, applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering.

Description of funding

You can apply for up to $300,000 in contribution funding per year, for projects up to 36 months in duration. These projects have to focus on fostering partnerships, innovation and addressing data/research gaps in Canada.

Eligible organizations may submit only one application for funding in this process.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Funding Program supports projects that aim to:

• build awareness of the 2030 Agenda
• increase partnerships and networks
• advance research, and
• further Canada’s implementation of the 2030 Agenda

You may also apply for a grant project that focusses on engaging and raising awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of our ongoing call for proposals launched in May 2019.

Objectives

We are funding projects that will identify and implement new and innovative approaches or increase impact of existing activities in order to work towards achieving 1 or more of the following objectives:

• Identify and address gaps in knowledge and/or data to support Canada’s efforts to meet the SDGs.
• Enhance collaboration between various sectors to explore new technologies and foster innovation and investment for the SDGs.
• Create resources to enhance and share knowledge on the SDGs including the contribution of Indigenous knowledge and practices in relation to advancing sustainable development.
• Establish accountability frameworks to support impact measurement and demonstrate SDG progress.

The Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS) is a new, integrated strategy, which aims to provide flexible and holistic services to support all young Canadians develop the skills and gain paid work experience to successfully transition in the labour market. The YESS has been redesigned to respond to a range of labour market challenges faced by youth, particularly for those facing barriers to employment. The Skills Link, Career Focus, and Summer Work Experience (excluding Canada Summer Jobs) programs that were previously under the Youth Employment Strategy umbrella have been merged into one integrated strategy.

The Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS) program will provide up to $600M in funding to organizations to deliver a range of activities that help youth overcome barriers to employment and develop a broad range of skills and knowledge in order to participate in the current and future labour market. Support will be tailored to the needs of youth that are facing barriers to employments. Youth who face barriers often include youth who are early leavers from high school, recent immigrant youth, youth from visible minority groups, youth living with disabilities, single parent youth, youth living in low-income households, youth experiencing homelessness or precarious housing, and youth living in rural or remote areas. For these youth, barriers often intersect and they are more likely to be among the youth population who are involuntarily not in employment, education or training (NEET). Acknowledging that some Indigenous youth face unique circumstances, the YESS is designed to maximize opportunities for them, including more culturally-specific supports and services.

The objective of the Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants is to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology originating from the university and college sector and promote its transfer to a new or established Canadian company. The I2I Grants provide funding to college and university faculty members to support research and development projects with recognized technology transfer potential. This is achieved through defined phases by providing crucial assistance in the early stages of technology validation and market connection.

The RTI grants program provides the primary avenue for university researchers in the natural sciences and engineering to obtain up to $150,000 in support for research tools and instruments with a net cost between $7,001 and $250,000. Net cost is defined as the purchase cost of the equipment after any discount from the vendor and before taxes, customs and importation fees, transportation and shipping charges, and assembly and installation costs. The vendor discount must be free of conditions, restrictions or limitations (e.g., cannot be offered in exchange for services from users benefiting the vendor company). The research community is also encouraged to explore other avenues for funding research tools and instruments, including NSERC's other programs that allow the purchase of equipment as eligible expenses.

The FY19 Defense Appropriation provides $10 million (M) to the Department of Defense (DoD) Melanoma Research Program (MRP) to support innovative, high-impact melanoma research. As directed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the Defense Health Agency J9, Research and Development Directorate manages the Defense Health Program (DHP) Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation. The managing agent for the anticipated Program Announcements/Funding Opportunities is the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC).

FY19 MRP Program Announcements and General Application Instructions for the following award mechanism is posted on the Grants.gov website. 

The FY19 MRP Focus Areas are listed below:

• Precursor Lesions, Melanomagenesis, Host Factors, and the Tumor Microenvironment (e.g., melanoma instigators, ultraviolet [UV] exposure, other instigators)
• Melanoma Primary Tumor Evolution (e.g., dormancy, heterogeneity, metabolism, epigenetic dysregulation, cell death)
• Therapeutic Prevention
• Minimal Residual Disease
• Rare Melanomas (e.g., uveal, acral, leptomeningeal disease, pediatric, adolescent and young adult [AYA], mucosal)

The MRP challenges the research community to redefine the concept of prevention and has issued a FY19 MRP Challenge Statement that should be considered when responding to the FY19 MRP Focus Areas and funding opportunities.

https://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/mrp

Concept Award – Letter of Intent due October 2, 2019

Investigators at or above postdoctoral fellow (or equivalent)

• ·        Supports the exploration of highly innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking concepts in melanoma.
• ·        Emphasis is on Innovation.
• ·        Preliminary data is strongly discouraged.
• ·        Clinical trials are not allowed.
• ·        Blinded review.
• ·       The maximum allowable funding for the entire period of performance is $75,000 in direct costs.
• ·       Indirect costs may be proposed in accordance with the institution’s negotiated rate agreement.
• ·       The maximum period of performance is 1 year.

A pre-application (letter of intent or pre-proposal) 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 Program Announcements and General Application Instructions available for electronic downloading from the Grants.gov website.  The application package containing the required forms for each award mechanism will also be found on Grants.gov.  A listing of all CDMRP and other USAMRMC 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 Program 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 MRP 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

The National Research Council (NRC) is collaborating with Transport Canada (TC) to develop a 5-year R&D plan to support regulatory development for visual line-of-sight (VLOS)/beyond visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) operations and to identify technology advancements, testing and certification that will enable safe operation of RPAS (also known as drone, UAS or UAV) in Canada. The objectives are to develop and oversee the Government of Canada’s transportation policies and programs so that Canadians can have access to a transportation system that is safe and secure; green and innovative; and efficient.

The Consortium for Aerospace Research and Innovation in Canada (CARIC) and the Consortium for Research and Innovation in Quebec (CRIAQ) will support Transport Canada and NRC to deploy a RPAS R&D Program, by making use of their networks with the objective to:

• Stimulate, Create and Support opportunities for industry, academia and government to perform collaborative research activities to support Canadian regulatory framework development
• Support other key initiatives when required

In this context, CARIC, CRIAQ, NRC, and Transport Canada are launching a call for projects ideas in the following themes:

• BVLOS-1: Detect and Avoid (DAA) system qualification: Provide data on risk mitigation of specific detect-and-avoid (DAA) systems to inform the regulator and support the issuance of BVLOS Special Flight Operations Certificates (SFOC).
• BVLOS-2: C2 link robustness: Inform the regulatory requirement for Command and Control (C2) link characteristics for BVLOS operations at low altitude (<500feet), by small-medium RPAS.
• BVLOS-3: Human injury probability: Inform the regulatory requirement on probability of impact of the RPAS on people, in case of mishap for BVLOS operations at low altitude, by small-medium RPAS.
• BVLOS-4: Human injury severity: Inform on injuries that can be caused by RPAS impact on people (Not limited to 50th percentile male, includes cuts, concussions, lesions, fractures, etc.) and efficiency of mitigation factors.
• BVLOS-5: Drone Detection: Development of an effective solution for RPAS detection on critical section of airspace on or in vicinity of airports or aerodromes

Goals of this program include development of technological breakthroughs and new enabling technologies, with significant economic benefit for Canada (jobs, revenues, etc.).

Interested industrial partners are invited to submit a project idea with research partners for the development of collaborative projects for this RPAS specific call.