Funder’s Website
The funder’s website can be found HERE.
Funding Value and Duration
Up to $175,000 depending on matching funding and available program funds
18-month award terms with no possibility for extension. AGE-WELL project funds must be expended in full by March 31, 2026.
Overview
The 2024 AgeTech Advance: Healthy Aging Research Program will support innovative projects that:
- Advance the development of novel technology-enabled solutions, or validate existing technologies in new environments, that enhance older adults’ lives and support healthy aging;
- Support a better understanding of the development, implementation, and adoption of AgeTech such as co-creation approaches with older adults or caregivers, ethics and technology, barriers to AgeTech adoption etc. that may strengthen pathways to impact for Canadian AgeTech innovations, and;
- Include and meet the needs of populations at risk and equity-deserving groups of older adults and care partners.
Eligibility Criteria
The Nominated Principal Investigator must be an independent researcher affiliated with a Canadian postsecondary institution and/or its affiliated institutions (including hospitals, research institutes and other non-profit organizations with a mandate for health research and/or knowledge translation) at the time of funding.
Projects must involve an Early Career Researcher (ECR) as a Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI). ECRs are highly encouraged to serve as the Nominated PI. An ECR is a researcher within five years of the date of their first independent research-related appointment. Given that career progress for an ECR is particularly vulnerable to normal life circumstances, the eligibility window may be adjusted. Please refer to the Application Guide for further information.
Additional requirements:
- The Nominated Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator(s) must hold substantive roles in Canada for the duration of the requested grant term.
- Co-Applicants can be independent researchers, knowledge users, or trainees.
- The Ultimate Recipient (institution paid) is required to execute an Ultimate Recipient Agreement or equivalent with AGE-WELL to enable the transfer of funding.
An individual cannot submit more than one application to this competition as a Nominated Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator but can be named as a co-applicant on more than one project.
Internal Contacts
Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.
Deadlines
| Faculty Deadline | Consult your Faculty Research Facilitator. |
| OVPRI Deadline (Approval Form and Application) | July 12, 2024 |
| Submission to Sponsor | July 19, 2024 |
Submitting Your Application
- Step 1) Submit an internal Carleton Approval Form
Submit an internal Approval Form through our central awards management database CUResearch:
https://ovpri.research.carleton.ca/Romeo.Researcher/Administrator/Default.aspx
For a user’s guide on submitting an Approval Form, click HERE. - Step 2) Submit an external application to the granting agency
Submit an external application to the corresponding grant or award agency. To navigate to the funder’s website, click HERE