York University: Research in the Time of COVID-19

Deadline: April 21, 2020, at 12 noon

In these unprecedented times, York University is issuing a call for time-sensitive special research proposals with a COVID-19 focus. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars have been committed to this Call as a demonstration of our on-going commitment to research and innovation in this most difficult period. Applicants from across the University are encouraged to apply with a focus on any aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic.

LA&PS Minor Research Grant

Deadline: April 30, 2020 (deadline extended)

The adjudicated vehicle through which LA&PS dispenses the YUFA Faculty/Library Research Grant Funding and the YUFA Junior Faculty/Librarian Fund. Funding for research projects; eligible expenses include personnel, research travel, subsistence costs.

SSHRC Exchange – Conference Grant Program

Deadline: May 1, 2020

To provide assistance for attendance at national and international scholarly conferences for which the applicant is giving a paper, making a poster presentation, or featured at a solo or 2-person opening of an exhibition, a principal screening, premier performance of dance, theatre or musical production. Application can be found here (expect to be prompted for your Passport York login).

NOTE: Due to the current COVID-19 situation, applications can be submitted electronically to Rebecca Wilson (rvwilson@yorku.ca).

Specific Research Grants

Deadline: May 1, 2020

The program permits, under certain conditions, a researcher to receive a research grant in lieu of salary through a mechanism which includes peer review. Guidelines and application form can be found through this page on the ORS website (expect to be prompted for your Passport York login).

 

For a general listing of internal funding opportunities, visit here.

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: June 1, 2020
• Submission to agency: June 15, 2020

Value: $7,000 to $25,000

Duration: 1 year

These grants provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. In addressing an organization-specific need, challenge and/or opportunity, these partnerships let non-academic organizations and post-secondary researchers access each other’s unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities on topics of mutual interest.

To access an application form and full instructions, log into your SSHRC account.

SSHRC Connection Grant

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: July 17, 2020
• Submission to agency: July 31, 2020

Value:  $7000 to $25,000 for events, and up to $50,000 for other outreach activities; higher amounts for outreach activities may be considered if well justified

Duration: 1 year

These grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, or other events or outreach activities.  To access an application form and full instructions, log into your SSHRC account.  In most cases, the appropriate application to select is “Connection – Individual.”

Global Affairs Canada-SSHRC International Policy Ideas Challenge

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: May 1, 2020
• Agency deadline: May 15, 2020 (deadline extended)

Value: $3000

Global Affairs Canada, in collaboration with SSHRC, has issued a call for proposals for the fifth edition of the International Policy Ideas Challenge. The program’s objective is to draw on the network of talented Canadian graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and early-career civil society researchers to identify concrete, innovative solutions to emerging international policy challenges faced by Canada. Proposals should outline a trend or dynamic affecting Canadian foreign policy that applicants believe needs additional study.  Preference will be for ideas that fall under one of the themes noted in the call; however, proposals related to other emerging issues and trends affecting Canada’s international policy priorities will also be considered.

Note: post-docs should contact Kim McIntyre, Post-doctoral Services Coordinator, Faculty of Graduate Studies, at kimmcint@yorku.ca or extension 22993, should they wish to apply to this competition.

CIHR Funding Opportunities

The Office of Research Services (ORS) recently updated the spreadsheet of funding opportunities available through CIHR.  Due to the large volume of RFAs, ORS has created a simplified Excel spreadsheet that will make it easier for researchers to locate the funding call that is most appropriate to their research area.

View the spreadsheet. You will be required to enter your Passport York user ID and password for YU Link to gain access to the spreadsheet. If the link below does not take you directly to Passport York, please copy and paste the link into your web browser.

NSERC Alliance COVID-19 Grants

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: 10 business days before submission to the agency
• Submission to ORS for budget review only (required):  2 business days before agency submission (absolute last day Thursday, May 28 at 9 am)
• Submission to agency: before June 1, 2020

Value: Up to $50K from NSERC. (Cash contributions from partner organizations are not required.)

Duration: 1 year

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced that it will provide funding to stimulate collaborations between academic researchers and the public and not-for-profit sectors, and industry to address pandemic-related research and technical challenges. Science, technology and engineering topics within NSERC’s mandate, directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic, are appropriate for these applications. Teams can be multidisciplinary; however, the major focus should not be medical or clinical research.

NSERC & Innovate UK: Canada-UK projects on Quantum Technologies

Deadlines: see ORS posting

Value:  NSERC: up to C$400,000 per project; Innovate UK: up to £300,000 per project

Duration: 1-3 years

NSERC and Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, are partnering in a call for research proposals on quantum technologies. The objectives of the program are: to build on complementary interests and research expertise in quantum technologies in the UK and Canada; and to allow for the collaboration between leading-edge scientists and potential innovative users, from industry and/or government sectors, to accelerate the development of quantum technologies. The specific areas that can be investigated under this call are: 1) quantum secure communications; 2) quantum computing and simulation; and 3) quantum sensing and imaging.

NSERC Idea to Innovation Grants

Deadlines, Value and Duration: See ORS posting.

NSERC is accepting applications to the Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants Program.  This program is available to University researchers to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology originating from the university and college sector and promote its transfer to a new or established Canadian company.  The I2I Program provides funding for four phases: Market Assessment; Phase I; Phase Ia; and Phase Iib.

Note: Proposals under this program must include a detailed technology transfer and commercialization plan prepared and endorsed by the university.  For VISTA-related proposals, please contact Yaser Kerachian, Commercialization Manager for VISTA at yaserk@yorku.ca or ext. 33843.  Everyone else, please contact Laura McLachlan, Associate Director, Commercialization & Partnerships at lauramcl@yorku.ca or ext. 55753, prior to preparing your application.

AXA Call: Mitigating Risk in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Deadlines:
• Submission of Intent to Apply to ORS: April 17, 2020 by 9 am
• Submission of application to ORS: April 27, 2020
• Submission of application to agency: May 7, 2020 by 4pm Paris time

Value: 250,000€ maximum

Duration: generally 12 and 24 months

To support outstanding researchers committed to improving peoples’ lives through innovative research in areas of Climate & Environment, Health, New Technologies, and Socio-Economics. For fuller details, please review the ORS posting.

Note: Only one application is allowed from each department.  For this reason, please indicate your intent to apply by sending an email to research@yorku.ca no later than 9am on Friday 17 April  2020, so that the Office of Research Services can liaise with your department/faculty if there is more than one applicant from any department.

Ontario Together Funding for COVID-19 Research

Deadlines:
• Submission of application to ORS: on day of submission by 9 am (April 24, 2020 by 9 am at absolute latest)
• Submission of application to agency: as soon as possible, up until April 24, 2020

The Government of Canada is working closely with the Ontario government to minimize the health, economic, and social impacts of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), by making sustained investments in Ontario’s universities and colleges. One of the key initiatives includes $20 million in research and innovation funding to develop tools and resources to combat COVID19 and related diseases by leveraging the strengths of Ontario’s world-class research institutions, industry and non-profit scientific partners. The Ontario government invites researchers to submit innovative ideas and solutions to support its response to COVID-19.

Submissions for research projects should be made through the IDEAS stream. Please read the detailed ORS posting.

Fulbright Arctic Initiative

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: April 27, 2020
• Agency deadline: May 11, 2020

Value: $40,000 USD

Duration: 18 months

The Fulbright Arctic Initiative creates a network to stimulate international scientific collaboration on Arctic issues while increasing mutual understanding among the people of the Arctic Council member states.

NATO Innovation Hub: RFIP

Deadlines:
• Registration due at agency: up until May 5, 2020
• Abstract due at agency: May 5, 2020
• Pre-selection: May 15, 2020
• Solution Submission due at agency: June 11, 2020
• Pitch Day & Award Ceremony: June 17, 2020

As part of a coordinated effort to fight COVID-19, IDEaS is informing innovators about COVID-19 related challenges being issued by the NATO Innovation Hub. The NATO Innovation Hub is a community where experts from around the world collaborate to tackle NATO challenges and design solutions. In response to the pandemic, the Innovation Hub has issued two challenges:  1. Identifying false information and mitigating its effects; and 2. Delivering supply to isolated individuals and teams.

This is a Request for Innovative Participation (RFIP). The objective is to invite eligible industry and academia to participate through submission of abstracts in response to the scenario set out in Annex I of the RFIP. As such, the Innovation Challenge is seeking innovative solutions that will enable leaders, teams of first responders and information systems to identify false information and mitigate the effects of this information on generating a true common operating picture, predicting behaviours, and supporting decision making.

To submit your solutions, please visit here.

Ontario Centres of Excellence Voucher for Innovation and Productivity: Expedited COVID-19 Applications

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: May 14, 2020
• Submission to agency: May 28, 2020

Value: $20,000 and $150,000 to the post-secondary institution (minimum of $20,000 per year)

Duration: 6 – 24 months

Ontario Centres of Excellence is helping Ontario innovators come together, as they respond to COVID-19 by leveraging existing funding support through the Voucher for Innovation and Productivity (VIP). The VIP program is designed with the following objectives in view: to help eligible companies develop, implement and commercialize technical innovations by supporting partnerships between Ontario’s industry and publicly funded post-secondary institutions; and to generate economic benefit for companies in Ontario (including job creation/retention, new revenue generation, investment attraction, cost savings, value chain development) in the short-to-medium term (e.g., within three years of project completion).

View the detailed description on the VPRI website.

Killam Fellowships  

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: May 15, 2020
• Final submission deadline to ORS: May 28, 2020 by 9:00am
• Agency deadline: June 1, 2020

Value: $70,000 per year

Duration: 2 years

To support outstanding scholars (normally full professors at Canadian universities and research institutes) to carry out groundbreaking projects in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering and studies linking any of the disciplines.

Killam Research Fellowships provide two years of release time from teaching and administrative duties to individual scholars who wish to pursue independent research. The fellowships are awarded to individuals, but the funds are paid to and administered by universities or research institutes. Please note that this award is not intended as a subsidy for the overall research or teaching program of a department, institute or centre, and it is not offered for work undertaken as part of a degree program. An individual may win this award only once. Note: some revisions to the application process have occurred since last year’s competition.

NOTE: Please submit a copy of your application and ORS checklist to the Office of Research Services (ORS) AND submit your application through the Killam online portal by Thursday, May 28th 2020, 9:00am, so that ORS can electronically approve your application and mail your paper format documents to the agency by the Monday, June 1, 2020 deadline.

Paper format documents include:

• The cover letter (signed). The cover letter can only be generated/printed after you have electronically submitted your application through the Killam online portal.

• For permanent residents only, evidence of your intention to stay in Canada after the period covered by the award. If you are a permanent resident, you must present a confirmation from your university or research institute that you have a firm appointment.

Workplace NL 2020 Research Initiatives Program

Deadlines:
• Submission of Letter of Intent (LOI) to ORS: June 3, 2020
• Submission of LOI to agency: June 17, 2020
• Submission of application to ORS: 10 working days prior to submission to agency
• Submission of application to agency (by invitation only): Agency will supply deadline

Value:  Up to $150K, with 20% overhead

Duration: 12 months

To promote and provide funding for workplace health and safety research to inform innovative, practical, and easy-to-implement solutions that support the prevention of workplace injuries and illnesses or support re-integration into the workplace, post-injury. Applications will be accepted for the following research topics: workplace safely culture; workplace violence prevention; fall prevention; occupational disease and exposure; serious injuries; prevention of musculoskeletal injuries; mental health issues; and other topics.

Toronto Arts Council: Writers Program

Deadline: June 15, 2020

Value:
• Level One: $5,000 – for writers in the early stages of their career
• Level Two: $10,000 – for writers with an established writing career

Toronto Arts Council Writers Program supports the creation of new literary works or works-in-progress in the genres of fiction (including novels, short stories, children’s literature, graphic novels, etc.), literary non-fiction, poetry and oral traditions such as storytelling, dub, rap and spoken-word.

Toronto Arts Council: Playwrights Program

Deadline: June 15, 2020

Value:
• Level One: $2,000 – for new or emerging playwrights with little or no prior history of production
• Level Two: $8,000 – for mid-career or senior playwrights with a history of professional production

Toronto Arts Council’s Playwrights Program provides support to playwrights for the writing of stage plays.

IC-IMPACTS Innovative Technology Demonstration Projects

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: 10 working days before agency submission
• Submission to agency: Rolling deadline

Value: below $25,000

Duration: up to 24 months

The India-Canada Centre for Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnership to Accelerate Community Transformation and Sustainability (IC-IMPACTS) recently announced a call for its Innovative Technologies Demonstration Projects. The call is open to any researcher in Canada eligible to receive tri-council funding who has a project ready for demonstration, piloting, or deployment in the area of safe and sustainable infrastructure, integrated water management, and public health and disease prevention. See the ORS posting for more details.