Details
| Opportunity Name | Data Coordination and Collaboration Hub (Data Hub) and Knowledge Mobilization and Implementation Coordination Hub (KMIC Hub) |
| Agency | Genome Canada |
| Value | Data Hub — $4,000,000 KMIC Hub — $2,100,000 |
| Indirect Costs | TBD |
| Duration | Up to 5 years |
Deadlines
| Notify SIRI of intention to apply | 12-01-2022 |
| Registration due to agency | 12-07-2022 |
| Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review | TBD (April 2023*) |
| Final application and fully signed ORS checklist due at SIRI for mandatory review | TBD (April 2023*) |
| Application due at agency | TBD (April 2023*) |
Objective
Ontario Genomics is pleased to announce new funding opportunities in Genome Canada’s Climate Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative. This Initiative will create a portfolio of projects that will be managed for integration of activities and objectives across the various portfolio elements. Data are a central component of the Initiative. Data will act as a bridge or connector between projects and as an output supporting the ability to achieve and measure impact across a diverse portfolio of projects.
To that end, this Initiative will fund two cross-cutting coordination Hubs: the Data Coordination and Collaboration Hub (Data Hub) and the Knowledge Mobilization and Implementation Coordination Hub (KMIC Hub). The cross-cutting, coordinating Hubs are designed to support and maximize the impacts produced by a portfolio of selected Interdisciplinary Challenge Teams (ICT) projects.
These Hubs will provide administrative, technical and coordination leadership to the project portfolio with a focus on:
- Intentionally connecting projects across the ICT portfolio.
- Supporting the coordination and alignment of portfolio activities across projects.
- Engaging stakeholders and end users at the portfolio level.
- Adding value to project outputs.
- Addressing gaps to create portfolio coherence in achieving impacts
A single pan-Canadian team will be selected to provide data coordination and technical expertise for the portfolio of projects. This team will work with the ICTs and other partners to develop and implement a portfolio data plan.
Eligibility
Data Hub
- The team must be pan-Canadian with representation from at least three provinces.
- The team must include relevant expertise in:
- Data governance (i.e., data-sharing, access, security and privacy policy).
- Data management (i.e., standards, metadata, data portals and cloud computing).
- Data analytics (i.e., bioinformatics, statistics, and AI).
- Agriculture science (e.g., crops and livestock).
- Climate science (e.g., carbon accounting, climate modelling, geographic information systems).
- The project must include public or private sector partner(s) to:
- Support computational infrastructure and longer-term sustainability.
- Facilitate the downstream use and/or impact of the data resources.
- Project leaders from the ICT teams cannot be Project Leaders of the Hubs. However, members of the ICT teams can be involved in the Hub team as co-applicants.
KMIC Hub
- The team must be pan-Canadian with representation from at least three provinces.
- The team should be multidisciplinary and include representatives who have expertise, skills and knowledge in areas such as:
- Knowledge mobilization and implementation (e.g., implementation science, knowledge translation and exchange, knowledge brokering).
- Research (e.g., implementation science, GE3LS).
- Policy and regulation (e.g., shaping and influencing policy, understanding federal and provincial or territorial governments and processes).
- Stakeholder engagement and outreach (e.g., consultations, public engagement).
- Partnership development (e.g., the ability to identify, establish and maintain partnerships with public, private, non-governmental and academic sectors).
- Science communications and marketing.
- Economics and economic evaluation.
- Evaluation and measurement.
- Inclusion, diversity, equity and access (IDEA) and Indigenous knowledge and engagement.
- Climate and agriculture science (e.g., genomics in society, crops, livestock).
- The project must include partner(s) from the public, community or private sector to facilitate the use and/or impact of the Initiative.
- Project Leaders from the ICT teams cannot be Project Leaders of the Hubs. However, members of the ICT teams can be involved in the Hub team as co-applicants.
How to Apply
The SIRI Unit in the Office of Research Services, in collaboration with the corresponding Faculty Research Office, will be supporting the development of applications selected to go forward to Genome Canada. Mark Roseman (roseman@yorku.ca), Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives Specialist, will be available to assist your office and your faculty members with any questions regarding the internal and external application processes.
Please note: All researchers should notify both their Faculty and Mark Roseman (roseman@yorku.ca) as soon as possible about their intention to apply. Doing so will both streamline the process of securing Faculty-level support for the partnership and ensure that researchers receive adequate support in application preparation.