Deadline: 30 May 2017
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is seeking applications for its Project Grant that is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports projects with a specific purpose and a defined endpoint.
The Project Grant program will:
- support a diverse portfolio of health-related research and knowledge translation projects at any stage, from discovery to application, including commercialization;
- promote relevant collaborations across disciplines, professions, and sectors; and,
- contribute to the creation and use of health-related knowledge.
Eligibility Criteria
- Project grants are designed to support researchers at any career stage to build and conduct health-related research and knowledge translation projects across CIHR’s mandate.
- The nominated principal applicant must be an independent researcher or a knowledge user.
- The nominated principal applicant must have an academic or research appointment at an eligible institution if they are an independent researcher.
- Institutional Eligibility Requirements:
- Canadian post-secondary institutions and their affiliated institutions including hospitals and research institutes; or
- Canadian non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations (including community or charitable organizations) with an explicit health research or knowledge translation mandate; or
- Canadian non-federal government departments or agencies, including regional health authorities, when specific programs of those departments or agencies do not fund the activity that forms the subject matter of the grant; or
- Other organizations, as determined by CIHR’s Governing Council, on the condition that the research or research-related activity falls within the mandate of CIHR.
How to Apply
- Project Grant applications follow a two-stage review process:
- Stage 1 consists of a remote review by experts who will review their assigned applications by focusing on the concept (i.e., significance and impact of the research) and the feasibility (i.e., approaches and methods, and expertise, experience and resources) of the project.
- Stage 2, the final assessment stage, involves face-to-face discussions by panels of reviewers.
- The Project Grant program includes a registration, and an application, followed by a two-stage review process.
- Applications are completed in a 10 page “free-form” format (including figures and tables) that aligns with the adjudication criteria specific to stage 1, as set out on the given website.
Eligible Country: Canada
For more information, please visit CIHR’s Project Grant.