The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to:

• Tackle RD patient-need led challenges and enable scientists in different countries to build an effective collaboration on a common interdisciplinary research project based on complementarities and sharing of expertise, with the expected impact being future use of the results to benefit patients.

Brain disorders are a leading cause of disability and mortality globally, placing a great burden on people living with brain disorders, their families, social relations, professional and informal carers, as well as healthcare systems and national economies as a whole. Furthermore, the current geopolitical and environmental crises as well as increasing economic pressure in many countries worldwide have further aggravated brain health problems, in particular for the most vulnerable.

It is thus crucial to identify the factors that influence brain health throughout life, from prenatal stages to advanced age, as well as methods to monitor them, influence them, or both. Brain health is dynamic and shaped by exposures, behaviours and interventions at every stage of life. Advancing the scientific knowledge about these factors may enable positive changes in brain health trajectories and lead to opportunities for prevention and recovery along the life-course.

The European Partnership for Brain Health (EP BrainHealth) gathers 53 partners from 31 countries, with the common goal of improving brain health for all by developing scientific knowledge as a ground to promote brain health throughout lifetime, to prevent and to cure brain diseases as well as to improve wellbeing of people living with neurological and mental disorders in Europe and beyond.

In this frame, the EP BrainHealth is launching a call in the field of neurodegenerative disorders.

The EP BrainHealth invites applications that combine a holistic approach to brain health with in-depth biological understanding. The aim of the call is to facilitate multinational, collaborative and multidisciplinary research that addresses critical translational questions. Applications for this call, should address how biological, social and environmental factors affect the trajectory of neurodegenerative disorders across the lifespan.

For more information, please consult the EP Brain Health Call for Proposals.

The Forest Sector Investment and Innovation Program (FSIIP) provides funding for strategic investments in the forest sector that:

• improve productivity and innovation
• enhance competitiveness
• support new market access
• provide benefits to Ontario’s broader forest sector
• strengthen regional economies

Nature Manitoba offers the Native Habitat Grant to support projects that conserve, restore, or manage native habitats—or promote education on their value. Each year, one or more grants of up to $3,000 are awarded to initiatives that help preserve Manitoba’s natural ecosystems.

The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and are awarded three times per year: December, April, and August. The value of the scholarship is remitted solely through editorial assistance as follows:

Master’s candidates: $750
Doctoral candidates: $2,500
Junior academics: $500

The GIA program supports research projects directly related to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that are aligned with Crohn’s and Colitis Canada’s Promise and funding priorities. Funding is limited to a maximum of $125,000 per year, for up to three years, contingent upon available funds.

The objective of this call for proposals will be to support national and regional outreach and education projects that measurably increase public, industry and local government knowledge and confidence related to light-duty electric vehicle (EV) charging, charging infrastructure, and EV ownership and operation.

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 no (or little) experience in the life sciences.

There is only one competition per year for HFSP Fellowships. Applications for the 2027 HFSP Long-Term and Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (to start in 2027) 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.