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| Program: | India Partnership Development Activities |
| Description: | Funding level: Up to CDN$25,000 These Partnership Development Activities may take the forms of scientific seminars, conferences, symposia and workshops, as well as activities that involve exchanges of scientists, technical experts and academics. Priority areas: Alternate Energy and Sustainable Environmental Technologies Biotechnology, Health Research, Medical Devices Earth Science and Disaster Management Information and Communications Technologies Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Requirements: • Proposed Partnership Development Activities must include participants from both countries; • Applications will be strengthened by the inclusion of participants from both academia and industry. • Activities should provide the opportunity for young researchers to participate; • Proposals should identify the objectives of the activity and how the activity fits into the applicants’ strategic plans for collaboration with the partner country; and • Participation from countries other than India and Canada will also be allowed |
| Funding Agency: | International Science and Technology Partnerships - Canada |
| Funding Agency Deadline Note: | Applications are processed and evaluated in batches every 6 to 8 weeks and the evaluation process will take an extra 4 to six weeks. |
| Website: | http://www.istpcanada.ca/ProductsServices/IndiaProgram/IndiaPDA/index.html |
| U of S Contact: | Le Li, 966-1687, le.li@usask.ca |
| Internal Deadline: | Former recipients are willing to share their proposals. For further information and support please contact Le Li, listed below. |
| Program: | Research Grants |
| Description: | The German Gerda Henkel Foundation supports research projects in the fields of History, Archaeology, Art History, Legal History, and Historic Islamic Studies. Funds are provided for: • specific temporary research projects by way of grants for personnel, travel and material expenses • research and PhD scholarships for German and foreign scholars • innovative academic conferences • publications of particularly successful projects supported by the Foundation Value: 15,000 Euro Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis |
| Funding Agency: | German Gerda Henkel Foundation |
| Funding Agency Deadline Note: | On-going |
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| U of S Contact: | Le Li - le.li@usask.ca |
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| Program: | Special Research Opportunity |
| Description: | The Special Research Opportunity (SRO) program supports unique, emerging research opportunities that are timely, urgent, high-risk or have a strong potential for breakthrough that will be of substantial benefit to Canada. The program also supports pre-research activities to investigate and develop potential new collaborative projects necessary to respond to these national and international opportunities. |
| Funding Agency: | NSERC |
| Funding Agency Deadline Note: | No deadline. |
| Website: | http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/index_eng.asp |
| U of S Contact: | Research Services, 966-8576 (research.services@usask.ca) |
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May 2013 | |
| Program: | Canada-Africa Research Exchange Grants (CAREG) |
| Deadline: | May 22, 2013 |
| Description: | The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) is pleased to announce the launch of the 2013 competition of the Canada-Africa Research Exchange Grants (CAREG) program. This program is managed by AUCC and funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The CAREG program supports short-term exchanges between Canadian and African universities and research institutes that address IDRC’s program areas. It is expected that 10-11 grants of up to $40,000 each will be awarded through the 2013 competition. Projects funded by IDRC must address one or more of the Centre’s four broad program areas – • Agriculture and the Environment • Global Health Policy • Science and Innovation • Social and Economic Policy Woven through the four program areas is a focus on gender issues, ensuring that both men and women can equally contribute to the search for solutions and benefit from advances. Priority will be given to CAREG activities that strengthen the research enterprise. Activities aimed at improving student training (e.g. curriculum development, guest lecturing, the Canada-Africa co-supervision of student research) are eligible as well, but only those aimed at graduate students, not undergraduates. Student training must be complementary to the research topic. Support through this program must be cost-shared on a 2:1 ratio by IDRC and the partner institutions, respectively. In other words, partner institutions must make a cash and/or in-kind contribution to cover at least one-third of the total cost of the project. For example, if the partners seek CDN $40,000 from IDRC, they must make a cash and/or in-kind contribution of at least CDN $20,000 to the project for a total project cost of $60,000. Partners may indicate more than a 1/3 contribution to the total project cost, if desired. Both the Canadian and African partners are expected to contribute, though these contributions do not need to be equal. Expenses that may be covered by the Canadian and African partner institutions’ cash and in-kind contributions include: researchers’ salaries and/or research assistants’ stipends, publication costs, communication costs, technical costs, conference registration fees, costs for organizing an academic event/conference and interpretation. The partner institutions may also contribute toward airfares, ground transportation, per diems, etc. The IDRC funds will cover: - International airfares (the most direct and economical routing). - Local accommodation and per-diems for meals and incidental expenses (using IDRC travel rates as a maximum and lower rates for travel of three months or more). - Other travel expenses including visas, medical insurance, immunization and ground transportation. - Personnel costs (a maximum of 25% of the IDRC grant) to cover the payment of replacement salaries when the African and Canadian researchers are abroad (i.e. to release CAREG researchers from teaching commitments) or for the payment of core salaries of CAREG researchers, including benefits. These costs must be justified in the context of research capacity building. Note that IDRC does not pay salary supplements (i.e. honorarium for full-time employees in addition to their regular salaries or higher salaries than the institution would normally pay). - Equipment purchases (a maximum of 10% of the IDRC grant). Equipment purchased by either the African or Canadian researcher must be left with the African partner institution. - Research expenses including remuneration for research assistants, resources for the research (e.g. journals, data) as well as computer and laboratory services. African researchers are expected to spend 3-6 consecutive months in Canada, and Canadian researchers are required to spend at least six weeks in Africa (while six consecutive weeks is strongly preferred, two trips are permissible). To be eligible for a grant, Canadian and African researchers must be regular full-time university faculty members or full-time researchers at a recognized research institute. Please see below for a list of eligible African countries. Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Cape Verde Cote d’Ivoire Djibouti Egypt Ethiopia Gambia Ghana Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe |
| Funding Agency: | Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) |
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| Website: | www.aucc.ca/careg |
| U of S Contact: | Le Li - le.li@usask.ca - 306.966.1687 |
| Internal Deadline: | May 15, 2013 |
June 2013 | |
| Program: | Canadian International Food Security Research Fund |
| Deadline: | June 05, 2013 |
| Description: | IDRC is pleased to announce this 2013 call as part of the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund. This call will support new research to improve food production and distribution, and the health and nutritional dimensions of food security in developing countries. Through this call, the Fund is looking to harness the best of the private, public and non-governmental sectors to expand its research portfolio and lay the groundwork for scaling-up research results and innovations – within a country, across a region, and possibly, across continents. This is an open, competitive call for concept notes, and submissions may come from new or existing partnerships. See the Call for Concept Notes document for full details on this call for proposals, including: • Background and rationale of the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund • Goal and key objectives of the Fund • Eligibility for the Fund • Selection process and criteria • Timelines for the 2013 Call • Concept note format and requirements • Submission deadlines |
| Funding Agency: | International Development Research Centre |
| Funding Agency Deadline Note: | |
| Website: | http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Programs/Agriculture_and_the_Environment/Canadian_International_Food_Security_Research_Fund/Pages/default.aspx |
| U of S Contact: | Le Li - le.li@usask.ca - 306.966.1687 |
| Internal Deadline: | May 29, 2013 |
| Program: | Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants (LACREG) |
| Deadline: | June 20, 2013 |
| Description: | The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) is pleased to announce the launch of the 2013 Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants (LACREG) program. This program has been managed by the AUCC with financial support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) since 1995. The purpose of this program is to strengthen international partnerships and consolidate emerging networks among academic researchers from Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. It is designed to support small collaborative research activities which will contribute to the creation, dissemination and application of knowledge in the development process in at least one of IDRC’s programming areas. IDRC program areas: Projects must address one or more of IDRC’s four broad program areas: • Agriculture and the environment • Global health policy • Science and innovation • Social and economic policy Eligibility: Researchers from Canada and eligible Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries are encouraged to apply. The LACREG program applies to collaborative research between Canada and the following LAC countries: Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Value: Support through this program will be cost-shared on a 2:1 ratio by the program and the partner institutions, respectively. The maximum value of each grant under this program will be $15,000 CDN. |
| Funding Agency: | International Development Research Centre |
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| Website: | www.aucc.ca/lacreg |
| U of S Contact: | Le Li: le.li@usask.ca or 966-1687 |
| Internal Deadline: | Research Services Internal Deadline: June 13, 2013 (please submit a copy of your application along with the completed Research Services Intake Form and Supplementary Signature Page) |
July 2013 | |
| Program: | Stars in Global Health |
| Deadline: | July 30, 2013 |
| Description: | Grand Challenges Canada announces Stars in Global Health Phase I Request for Proposals. This unique program enables innovators in developing countries, as well as in Canada, to develop their bold ideas with big impact to improve global health conditions. Awards are initially valued at $100,000 CAD for up to 12–18 months to demonstrate proof of concept of the idea. Phase I grantees who complete their proof-of-concept projects and have solutions that are ready to transition to scale will be invited to submit Phase II – Transition to Scale proposals, which will require 50% matching through partnerships. Proposals must include a two-minute video explaining the target global health problem, the proposed solution and why it is a creative, bold and innovative approach. The purpose of the video is to engage the public in global health and demonstrate the creativity of innovators. These videos will be posted on Grand Challenges Canada's website for public viewing and comment. |
| Funding Agency: | Grand Challenges Canada |
| Funding Agency Deadline Note: | 3 PM Eastern |
| Website: | http://www.grandchallenges.ca/grand-challenges/stars-phase-i/ |
| U of S Contact: | Le Li at le.li@usask.ca or 966-1687 |
| Internal Deadline: | July 23, 2013 |
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