NOTE: This round is for small scale $15,000 awards only

Applications are due January 8, 2019 at 4 pm.

What would you do with $15K?

Women’s Xchange invites you to apply for the $15K Challenge!

The $15K Challenge will award up to $15,000 to individuals in organizations working to advance the health of women and girls. Funding is available for one year, and organizations must be based in Ontario. 

Please note the following about our funding criteria: 
- If you currently hold a $15K grant from Women's Xchange, your funded project must be completed before you can reapply
- Principal Investigators can only hold one $15K grant at a time

You’ve got the ideas. We’ve got the funding. Let’s work together.

From help on framing a research question to aid in communicating the results of your project to others, Women’s Xchange wants to support you. Women’s Xchange can help transform your ideas into research that will make an impact in the communities you serve.

For more information on eligibility criteria and how to apply, please visit our website http://womensxchange.womensresearch.ca/challenge/how-to-apply.html or e-mail info@womensxchange.ca

You can also view past projects on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/WomensXchange or follow on us Twitter: @womens_xchange

Sponsor: Award established by the Government of Canada.

Deadline: January 14, 2019

Objective: To encourage young Canadians who wish to improve their proficiency in their second official language of Canada (English or French) and wish to pursue studies, on a full-time basis, at a Canadian university which functions in the other official language and in a milieu in which that language predominates.

Number:  Up to two (2) awards at the bachelor’s degree level.

Eligibility:  Eligible applicants must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada.

The Government of Canada is accepting applications from organizations interested in receiving contribution funding from the pan-Canadian stream of the New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP). Eligible organizations can apply for $500,000 to $5 million for a project consisting of a 3 to 5 year collective impact initiative.

The pan-Canadian stream of the NHSP has approximatively $8 million available per year for five years to distribute to eligible organizations. It is anticipated that up to ten organizations submitting collective impact initiatives will receive funding through this process.

Objective

This process seeks to ensure that seniors can benefit from and contribute to the quality of life in their communities. More specifically, this process seeks to:

• build the collective capacity of organizations to recognize and address barriers to social inclusion faced by seniors;
• promote improved access to information, programs and services for seniors to enhance their social inclusion within their communities;
• support action research to better understand effective approaches for increasing the level of social inclusion of seniors in their communities;
• develop innovative approaches to engage and retain senior volunteers to improve their social inclusion in their communities; and
• address systemic barriers that contribute to the social exclusion of seniors.

To determine how funding will be allocated, we are launching a two-step application process. This first step is a competitive call for concepts. You are invited to provide high level information about your project to determine the need and complexity of an issue that is impacting seniors' well-being. Complex issues suited to these projects are those that are not easy to resolve, have persisted over time and cannot be solved in isolation. As this is a competitive process, not all applications will be retained.

If you are successful in the first step of this application process, we will invite you to develop a full project proposal. At that time, you will be required to provide additional information and go into further details about your proposed concept, such as a well-articulated plan for funding collaborating organizations. Additional information and documents about the project will also be requested. Another document with specific instructions will be provided to those applicants.

The First Nations and Inuit Skills Link Program supports activities that assist youth in acquiring the essential skills that will help them gain employment, function well in the workplace, and learn about job and career options.

Activities may include career promotion, science and technology activities, co-operative education placements and internships and mentored work placements.

The program:

• promotes the benefits and importance of education to youth participation in the labour market
• supports the development and improvement of essential employability skills, such as communication, problem-solving, and working with others
• introduces youth to a variety of career options
• helps youth gain skills by providing wage subsidies for mentored work experience or for mentored school-based work and study opportunities

Funding is provided to eligible First Nations and Inuit communities, governments and organizations, as well as not-for-profit associations, schools and employers who then provide activities for First Nations and Inuit youth.

SSHRC Impact Awards are designed to build on and sustain Canada’s research-based knowledge culture in all research areas of the social sciences and humanities. The awards recognize outstanding researchers and celebrate their research achievements, research training, knowledge mobilization, and outreach activities funded partially or entirely by SSHRC.

Award funds are to be used for activities that promote and further develop the work being honoured. In recognition of the crucial role that postsecondary institutions play as researchers’ knowledge mobilization partners, at least 10 per cent of each award must be used to promote the recipient’s research achievements. Individual recipients and their institutions may choose to devote additional funds, including a higher percentage of the award funds, to these activities.

A multidisciplinary jury made up of distinguished individuals from academia, as well as the private, not-for-profit and public sectors, from Canada and abroad, will select award recipients according to the selection criteria associated with each of the five awards listed below.

Prior to announcing the award winners, SSHRC will disclose the names of the finalists for all awards but the Gold Medal. Nominees must, as part of the nomination package, consent to SSHRC using their name and nomination information in related promotional activities.

Eligible institutions are invited to put forward nominations for the:

• Gold Medal ($100,000);
• Talent Award ($50,000);
• Insight Award ($50,000);
• Connection Award ($50,000); and
• Partnership Award ($50,000).

Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital’s research institute (the Bloorview Research Institute) is now accepting submissions for the prestigious 2019 Pursuit Awardcompetitionthat recognizes outstandingachievements in childhood disability research by PhD students across the globe.

We encourage you to share the information below with eligible students and your colleagues: 

What: The 2019 Pursuit Award competition, recognizing PhD students that are working on improving the lives of kids and youth with a disability. Every year, the Pursuit Award receives applications worldwide that are forward-thinking, innovative, and challenge the borders of childhood disability research.

Eligibility: Current PhD students (no more than six months away from defence) and postdoctoral trainees/recent graduates (within one year of receiving their PhD) who have made significant contributions in applied or clinical childhood disability research. Any applied or clinical research specifically linked to childhood disability is eligible for consideration.

Criteria: Finalists are chosen based on significance of research results, methodological rigour, empirical content, and impact on childhood disability care.

Award: Up to three monetary prizes are awarded and finalists may be eligible for a prestigious post-doctoral fellowship at the Bloorview Research Institute. All finalists are invited to present their research during the annual Pursuit Award ceremony May  14, 2019 at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) and compete for the first place prize. Travel and accommodation costs are covered.

Established in 2004, the internationally recognized Bloorview Research Institute pioneers treatments, technologies, therapies, and innovations for the most meaningful and healthy futures for all kids, youth, and families. It is housed at Holland Bloorview – a world-renowned pediatric rehabilitation and continuing care teaching hospital; fully affiliated with the University of Toronto.

The application deadline is Monday, February 4, 2019 5:00 p.m. EST.

Please refer to the attached application package for full details. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact BRIevents@hollandbloorview.ca.

Please encourage your PhD students and postdoctoral fellows to apply.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become one of the major global health and development challenges of the 21st century. The threat of AMR is particularly high in resource-limited and high-risk settings. This is linked to weak human and animal health systems; diverse means of food production, processing and consumption; food safety and food security; water, hygiene and sanitation challenges; and the global movement of people and goods.

In response to these challenges, the JPIAMR is launching a joint transnational call for proposals for innovative research projects on new or improved diagnostics and surveillance strategies, tools, technologies and methods. These research projects should address diagnosis of AMR infections in clinical and veterinary settings, or the emergence, surveillance, and/or detection of AMR in humans, animals and the environment. This Call will support research projects that also have the potential for impact in areas where the risk and burden of AMR is greatest, e.g. in LMIC settings in Asia and Africa. Projects are encouraged to use a One Health approach where relevant.

CIHR is investing $1.8 million in this joint programming call. The overall projected call budget is of approx. 20 million Euro.