The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges (MSCA-SE) support up to four-year joint research and innovation projects implemented by seconding and/or hosting eligible staff members. The next call is due to open on Thursday, October 6th, 2022. The call is open to international consortia of universities, research institutions, businesses, SMEs, and other non-academic organizations to exchange their staff for up to 12 months.  More information can be found here. Join an upcoming webinar on October 26, 2022 here.  Please contact Jill Sherman for assistance, intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

Brain Canada is pleased to be partnering with Alzheimer Society of Canada on the Alzheimer’s Society Research Program (ASRP) to support Canadian studies that promise new insights into causes, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. The two grants with available funding from Brain Canada are:

• The ASRP New Investigator Operating Grants: designed to help launch the careers of outstanding researchers who are within the first six (6) years of their initial academic appointment. Grants of up to $200,000 each will be awarded for a period of up to four (4) years. Brain Canada will co-fund up to two (2) successful applicants.
• The Proof of Concept Grants: designed to fund innovative, potentially high-risk, and high-reward research that pushes beyond the status quo in dementia research and focuses on challenging new directions within the field. Grants of up to $100,000 each will be awarded for a period of up to three (3) years. Brain Canada will co-fund up to twelve (12) successful applicants.

Evidence clearly shows that increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research environments enhances excellence, innovation, and creativity. Alzheimer Society of Canada and Brain Canada are committed to excellence through equity, and we encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply to our funding opportunities, which will promote the expression of diverse perspectives, approaches, and experiences, including those of underrepresented groups.

Click here to view the Application Guidelines

Deadline for receipt of Applications: November 4, 2022 at 5 p.m. EST

Brain Canada is pleased to be partnering with Alzheimer Society of Canada on the Alzheimer’s Society Research Program (ASRP) to support Canadian studies that promise new insights into causes, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. The two grants with available funding from Brain Canada are:

• The ASRP New Investigator Operating Grants: designed to help launch the careers of outstanding researchers who are within the first six (6) years of their initial academic appointment. Grants of up to $200,000 each will be awarded for a period of up to four (4) years. Brain Canada will co-fund up to two (2) successful applicants.
• The Proof of Concept Grants: designed to fund innovative, potentially high-risk, and high-reward research that pushes beyond the status quo in dementia research and focuses on challenging new directions within the field. Grants of up to $100,000 each will be awarded for a period of up to three (3) years. Brain Canada will co-fund up to twelve (12) successful applicants.

Evidence clearly shows that increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research environments enhances excellence, innovation, and creativity. Alzheimer Society of Canada and Brain Canada are committed to excellence through equity, and we encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply to our funding opportunities, which will promote the expression of diverse perspectives, approaches, and experiences, including those of underrepresented groups.

Click here to view the Application Guidelines

Deadline for receipt of Applications: November 4, 2022 at 5 p.m. EST

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Support the creation and/or further development of inclusive, formal networks to address selected priority issues related to Skin Health, Bone Health, and Muscular Dystrophy;
• Encourage national (and if feasible, international) collaboration, methods development, and resource sharing (people and platforms) among multidisciplinary experts;
• Engage researchers and other network members who have historically faced barriers in the research ecosystem, including but not limited to those marginalized by gender, Indigenous Peoples, racialized minorities, persons with disabilities, and members of LGBTQ2S+ communities;
• Develop and strengthen research capacity by connecting and engaging current researchers and training the next generation of researchers;
• Facilitate the mobilization and uptake of existing knowledge and the new knowledge generated by research evidence; and
• Ensure meaningful patient engagement with a goal of influencing impact beyond the time of this network.

The Pan-Canadian Women's Health Coalition will be composed of virtual hubs across Canada linked through an overarching coordinating centre. Applications for the hubs and the coordinating centre will occur over two separate funding opportunities. The current funding opportunity is accepting applications for the hubs. A future funding opportunity, which is anticipated to be launched in Fall 2023, will be accepting applications for the coordinating centre. Applying for hubs funding does not preclude applying for the coordinating centre funding.

Hubs (current funding opportunity)

Each hub must identify one or more areas of women's health to address, within the scope of this funding opportunity, based on community, regional and/or national needs, ensuring that women's and gender-diverse people's voices are at the heart of the hub's activities. It is important to acknowledge that traditional knowledge, such as those of Indigenous and African diasporic communities, has been undervalued and underutilized in Western medicine. Therefore, the hubs are expected to amplify traditional ways of knowing to provide insights on how to improve women's health and wellness through an intersectional lens.

The roles and responsibilities of each hub are to maximize the impact and visibility of women's health research and practice through the following activities:

• Mobilize and scale-up newly generated and existing knowledge and models of practice to advance more equitable, evidence-based, gender-sensitive, culturally safe, holistic healthcare and access to care for diverse groups of women.
• Convene regional knowledge mobilization activities, including engaging the public and knowledge users, and policymakers through culturally appropriate methods, to maximize research impact and help create system-level change.
• Create and share inventories of existing evidence-based services for diverse groups of women, girls and gender-diverse people, including those who live in remote, rural or difficult to access areas.
• Enhance opportunities for trainees in women's health research through the creation and delivery of training and mentorship activities and resources.
• Engage in community-based priority-setting activities for future research in women's health through early, extensive and ongoing engagement efforts with relevant stakeholders and rights holders, including community organizations, diverse groups of women and researchers.
• Plan for the sustainability of the proposed hub's activities beyond the granting period of the current funding opportunity.

Each hub requires tripartite leadership, including a non-governmental community organization, an independent researcher, and a healthcare provider, all in the area of women's health. Additionally, the leadership team of each hub is required to build a diverse community, regional or national team that brings together the expertise and experiences of other non-governmental community organizations, healthcare providers, researchers, and trainees as well as Indigenous People, and patients and people with lived experience in women's health. Given the importance of ensuring women drive and inform the research supported through the NWHRI, it is encouraged that women and gender-diverse people will be leading and/or meaningfully engaged in both project leadership and the research itself. 

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

1. Mobilize and scale-up newly generated and existing knowledge and models of care into effective, gender-sensitive and culturally appropriate women's health and wellness services across Canada.
2. Maximize research impact within and beyond the Coalition (hubs and the coordinating centre) to help ensure evidence is integrated into health policies, decision making, and planning to support community, regional, provincial, territorial, and/or federal efforts regarding women's health.
3. Build capacity for the next generation of health researchers through training and mentorship opportunities embedded within the hub to support the development of a sustainable women's health research ecosystem.
4. Engage in community-based priority-setting activities that include diverse voices to identify future critical areas of women's health research based on community, regional and/or national needs.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Build an evidence base on the effectiveness and efficiency of population-level interventions designed to reduce inappropriate antimicrobial use and prevent the spread of resistant pathogens in humans, animals and the environment;
• Strengthen Canada's interdisciplinary research capacity to evaluate population-level interventions to address AMR; and
• Enable policy decisions within Canada to be informed by robust and timely evidence and best practice recommendations regarding population-level interventions to reduce antimicrobial use and prevent the spread of resistant pathogens.

For information on other funding opportunities offered by the Thunder Bay  Community Foundation, please click here.

For research stays of 1-3 months at one or more recognized German institutes of higher education and non-university research institutes, starting between October 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023.  Applicants must be Citizens or Permanent Residents of the United States or Canada, and must have 2 years of experience beyond the completion of the doctoral degree.  The award provides a travel allowance and 2,000-2,150 Euros per month, depending on academic status.  There are two application cycles per year with May and October deadlines (NOTE: Oct 2022 intake cancelled). For more information or assistance, please contact Jill Sherman, intl.research@lakeheadu.ca

The Mitacs-JSPS Summer Program, offered in partnership with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), provides opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in Canada to pursue collaborative research in Japan. Applicants must be Canadian Citizens or permanent residents.  Rountdtrip airfare, insurance and a stipend in the amount of 534,000 yen (approx. CAD 5,000) are provided.

https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/mitacs-jsps-summer-program

Please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca for more information.