1. 2019 Mobility Funding for Researchers - French Embassy in Canada - Cultural and Scientific Services
The Embassy of France has launched a call for applications to fund the mobility of researchers between Canada and France in 2019.
Link: https://francecanadaculture.org/call-for-appplications-2019-mobility-funding-for-researchers/
Value:
- 1 return economy-class flight Canada- France or France-Canada
- A contribution towards subsistence costs (per diem, for a maximum of three nights)
Eligibility: Applicants must be Canadian or French researchers affiliated to laboratories/ departments which are part of a Canadian or French University/ Research Centre
Application process:
Notify of Intent to ROADS by
January 28, 2019
Applicants must submit to ROADS a completed
Application Form, along with a 2 page CV and invitation letter from the host institution by
February 11, 2019.
Applications are due to the French Embassy by Sunday, February 17, 2019 (11:59 PM EST).
ROADS contact: Nathan Coschi, Senior Advisor, at
coschimn@mcmaster.ca or extension 21581
2. Partnership Engage Grants, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
The objective of the Partnership Engage Grant is to 1) provide short‐term, timely support for small-scale, stakeholder-driven, partnered research activities that will inform decision‐making at a single partner organization (i.e., public, private, not‐for‐profit, non-academic sectors), and 2) respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations.
Partnership Engage Grant proposals may involve any disciplines, thematic areas, approaches, or subject areas eligible for SSHRC funding.
review
Subject Matter Eligibility at
http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/apply- demande/background-renseignements/selecting_agency-choisir_organisme_subventionnaire-eng.aspx
Link: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs- programmes/partnership_engage_grants-subventions_d_engagement_partenarial-eng.aspx
Value: $7,000 - $25,000 over 1 year
Application Process: Notify ROADS of intent to apply by
January 15, 2019.
The initial draft of the application and letters of support are due to the ROADS by
February 22, 2019. The final draft, and a completed and signed Application Approval Form, are due to ROADS by
March 8, 2019.
The SSHRC application deadline is
March 15, 2019.
ROADS contact: Christina Pellegrini, Senior Advisor, at
pellegrc@mcmaster.ca or extension 27207
3. Request for Proposals: Reducing Marine Plastic Pollution, National Geographic Society
ICLR’s Quick Response Program was designed to allow social, behavourial and economic scientists to quickly deploy to a disaster-affected area in the aftermath of a flood, extreme weather event or earthquake to collect perishable data. The program promotes innovation in disaster research by favoring students, new researchers, and novel areas of study. The program is open to all social scientists at all times, but calls for proposals may be issued by ICLR in the aftermath of significant loss events.
Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/grants/grant-opportunities/reducing-marine-plastic-pollution/
Value: Once a proposal is approved, a grant of up to $2,500 will be allocated to support the researchers’ pre-approved research expenses within Canada and the United States. A maximum of $5,000 is available for an exceptional proposal.
Application Process: There is no fixed deadline for submitting proposals, proposals are submitted and reviewed on an ongoing basis. Notify ROADS of Intent to Apply ASAP.
ROADS contact: Christina Pellegrini, Senior Advisor, at pellegrc@mcmaster.ca or extension 27207.
4. Reimagining Great Lakes Water Systems - A Call for People, Ideas and Projects, Great Lakes Protection Fund
The Great Lakes Protection Fund welcomes ideas for projects that will create and advance the next generation of actions to protect and restore the ecological health of the Great Lakes.Below are themes we are currently exploring, but they should not necessarily limit what you should consider proposing:
1. Prototype Solutions for Big Challenges
Ideas to address what we feel are the important challenges facing the Lakes:
- increasingly large rain events,
- under-investment in water infrastructure,
- nutrient pollution and harmful algae blooms,
- threats posed by potential and existing invasive species, and
- adapting to the demographic and economic changes in our region.
2. Your Idea
The Fund always welcomes ideas for action-oriented projects that will drive positive ecological change in the Great Lakes.
3. Talent Bank Surgey
If you are interested in participating in a project, being an expert reviewer, or offering advice to the Fund, please fill out the survey on our website.
Link: http://glpf.org/get-funding/projects-wanted/
Value: The average level of Fund support is $460,000, but past awards have ranged from $20,000 to $1.6 million.
Application Process: Preliminary porposals due: 31 January, 30 April, 31 July, 31 October - Final funding decisions are made by the full board. If successful, you can receive an award within six to eight months after submitting a preproposal.
Eg. If you submit a preproposal by end of October, you will receive a response (invite or decline) in November, and if invited, you will receive a final funding decision in March.
5. Quick Response Program, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR)
The objective
is to allow social, behavioural and economic scientists to quickly deploy to a disaster-affected area in the aftermath of a flood, extreme weather event, or earthquake to collect perishable data. The program promotes innovation in disaster research by favoring students, new researchers, and novel areas of study.
Although all proposals will be considered, the ICLR has identified areas where it would like to see the literature developed. This list may be updated from time to time. Proposals that engage one or more of the following topics, or classes of disasters will be given extra weight:
1. Adaptation/Mitigation behaviours
2.Hazard risk communication - pre/post disaster
3. Community recovery/household recovery capacity
4. Resilience indicators
5. Damage assessments (social/environmental/economic)
6. Interagency and intergovernmental coordination
7. Perceptions of natural hazards
8. Post disaster mitigation – build back better
In addition to expanding academic knowledge, funded researchers submit brief reports that make preliminary analyses of recent events available to ICLR’s multidisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners and educators, as well as other interested parties.
Link: https://www.iclr.org/quickresponse.html
Value: $2,500 supports research expenses within Canada and the United States
The research expenses may include travel to the disaster-affected area(s), accommodation, research assistants, etc. A maximum $5,000 is available for an exceptional proposal.
Application Process: The ICLR will accept applications at
all times.
ROADS contact: Leanna Fong, Senior Advisor, at
fongl@mcmaster.ca or extension 21583
6. Invitation for Feedback: Prioritizing Future Challenges for Canada, CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC and the Canada Foundation for Innovation
Canada’s three research granting agencies, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation, are seeking your expertise to help prioritize which future challenges identified through a recent horizon scan are considered most important for Canada.
The scan has identified 16 future challenges with the potential to shape society in profound ways, which are all multi-disciplinary and require broad collaboration to address.
The granting agencies ask that you select one top challenge, and explore its possible impacts through a brief survey. For the challenge you select, you will be asked a series of questions. You will have the option of repeating the exercise for a challenge you deem of next-most importance. Beyond the 16 challenges identified in the horizon scan, you have the opportunity to identify additional challenges deemed critical to Canada’s future.
The granting agencies are inviting input from a variety of individuals across the academic, private, public and not-for-profit sectors, in Canada and internationally. By taking part in their brief prioritization exercise, using the Futurescaper crowdsourcing tool, you will help to identify which challenges to consider for possible future programming and/or corporate activities. Once you have reviewed the 16 future challenges, the exercise will take you approximately 10 - 15 minutes to complete
.
To begin, please follow this link:
FUTURE CHALLENGES PRIORITIZATION
Results of this foresight exercise will be available by Spring 2019. Responses are anonymous and results will be aggregated to ensure anonymity.
7. Institutional Grants, Tinker Foundation Incorporated
The objective of the
Institutional Grant is to support the development of effective policy changes that improve the lives of Latin Americans.
The Foundation's funding is directed to three program areas in which focused, expert research and innovation have the potential to make significant, positive impact.
1. Democratic Governance
review
https://www.tinker.org/content/democratic-governance
2. Education
review
https://www.tinker.org/content/education
3. Sustainable Resource Management
review
https://www.tinker.org/content/sustainable-resource-management
Successful proposals have 1) a strong public policy component, 2) offer innovative solutions to problems facing these regions, and 3) incorporate new mechanisms for addressing programmatic areas.
Activities may include, but are not restricted to research projects, workshops, and conferences related to the Foundation's areas of interest (above).
The Foundation encourages collaboration among organizations in the United States and Latin America, and prefers to fund institutions that are actively engaged with a broad array of stakeholders impacted by the identified challenge.
Funding for general support may be considered on a limited basis.
Link: https://www.tinker.org/content/institutional-grants
Value: Applicants submit a budget and estimate the duration of the project.
Application Process: The Tinker Foundation Incorporated Letter of Inquiry opens
January 7 – March 1, 2019. The application deadline is
March 15, 2019.
ROADS contact: Scott Johnston, Senior Advisor, at
johnssa6@mcmaster.ca or extension 24439
