Funding Opportunity Information follows Internal Contacts and Deadlines sections

Internal Contacts

Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.

Faculty Deadlines

Faculty deadlines vary in function of faculty specific workflow load requirements. Contact your Faculty Research Facilitator

Deadline FASS FED  SCI FPGA
Registration Deadline February 5, 2025 February 5, 2025 February 5, 2025 February 5, 2025
Draft Application Review &Feedback Contact Kristin Bourassa February 19, 2025 February 19, 2025 February 19, 2025
CUResearch Approval Form Submission  February 26, 2025  February 26, 2025  February 26, 2025  February 26, 2025
CIHR Portal Project Submission
(DUAL SUBMISSION)		 March 5, 2025 @ Noon (12:00PM) March 3, 2025 @ Noon (12:00PM) March 5, 2025 @ Noon (12:00PM) March 3, 2025 @ Noon (12:00PM)

OVPRI Deadlines

Registration Deadline February 5, 2025
CUResearch Approval Form Submission February 26, 2025
OVPRI Submission to CIHR March 5, 2025 @ Noon (12:00PM)

Funding Information

Special NOTE:

Formatting and appendices (https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/29300.html)

CIHR continues to refine its formatting requirements in response to feedback from peer reviewers. For us, this is primarily a matter of fairness. We want to create, as best we can, a level playing field, where every applicant can be fairly assessed based on a consistent amount of information provided. CIHR will continue to follow up with applicants who do not respect the formatting requirements by manipulating font type and size, line spacing, or margin sizes. Repeated formatting issues could lead to a grant application being withdrawn and implications for your institution.

Not adhering to formatting requirements can also make grant applications less readable and introduce confusion for peer reviewers. Peer reviewers have raised concerns with CIHR about consistency and fairness in regard to formatting. CIHR staff will continue to work with applicants and their institutions to ensure that everyone is following our application instructions.

In a similar vein, in the interest of fairness it is important that all applicants adhere to requirements around appendices. Following extensive consultations with our community, certain attachments are no longer accepted, and all information necessary must be included in the key components of the application (e.g., research proposal, summary of progress, CV). Reviewers have noted that some applicants have included application information in other allowable attachments, such as letters of collaboration. This information is not considered in the evaluation of the application.

·         See this website https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/49560.html Task 7: Attach other application materials for what qualifies as required attachments, optional attachments, and no longer accepted attachments. The rules have changed!

Research security (https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/53881.html) – The granting agencies have introduced new measures to safeguard the integrity of research against risks to national and economic security. Depending on whether or not their research proposals involve private sector partner organizations or aim to advance a sensitive technology research area, applicants to the Spring 2025 Project Grant competition may need to complete new risk assessment and attestation forms. Learn more about research security at CIHR.

Funder’s Website

The funder’s website can be found HERE.

Funding Value and Duration

CIHR and partner(s) financial contributions for this initiative are subject to availability of funds. Should CIHR or partner(s) funding levels not be available or are decreased due to unforeseen circumstances, CIHR and partner(s) reserve the right to reduce, defer or suspend financial contributions to grants received as a result of this funding opportunity.

The total amount available for the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Project Grant Competitions is $650M.

  • Within the investment allocated to each Project Grant competition, there will be a funding envelope of:
    • $16.25M dedicated to large grants. Large grants are defined as those within the top 2% largest total grant amount requested by all applicants within the competition and varies with each competition. This budget envelope is not intended for series of projects to be bundled together for long-term support. Individual grant applications requesting a total of more than the amount dedicated for the large grant funding envelope will be withdrawn.
    • $14.95M (4.6%) dedicated to supporting applications with an Indigenous health research focus.
    • A portion of the competition budget will also be reserved to ensure that the proportion of grants funded is at least equal to the proportion of applications submitted by early career researchers (ECRs), female applicants,  applicants submitting applications written in French, racialized applicants and applicants who self-identify as a person with a disability. Should the full amount set aside not be required, all remaining funds will be returned to the Project grant competition to further increase the number of grants funded.
  • The number of grants funded will depend on the requested budgets and peer review recommendations.
  • Project Grant applicant funding levels are proportionate to the requirements of the research proposed, which is expected to vary by research field, research approach, and scope of proposal activities.
  • For more information on the appropriate use of funds, refer to Allowable Costs.

Overview

The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes by supporting projects of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.

Research Areas (Full overview on website)

  • Global Health
  • Indigenous Health Research
  • Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Commercialization
  • Interdisciplinary Research
  • Specific Research Areas

Eligibility Criteria

For an application to be eligible, all the requirements stated below must be met:

  1. The Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) must be one of the following:
    1. an independent researcher or a knowledge user 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.
      • if the Nominated Principal Applicant is a knowledge user, there must be at least one Principal Applicant who is an independent researcher

      OR

    2. an individual affiliated with an Indigenous non-governmental organization in Canada with a research and/or knowledge translation mandate.OR
    3. an Indigenous non-governmental organization in Canada with a research and/or knowledge translation mandate.
  2. The NPA (individual) must have their substantive role in Canada for the duration of the requested grant term.
  3. The Institution Paid must be authorized to administer CIHR funds before the funding can be released (see Administration of Funds).
  4. Principal Applicants must be independent researchers or knowledge users (inclusion of one or more Principal Applicants is optional). Individuals in the principal applicant role may not be a trainee or be in a subordinate position (i.e. directed or supervised by another), with respect to the subject matter of the proposed research/activities.
  5. Co-Applicants can be one of the following (inclusion of one or more is optional):
    1. independent researchers;
    2. knowledge users;
    3. trainees;
    4. other.
  6. An individual or an organization cannot submit more than two Project Grant applications per competition as a Nominated Principal Applicant. If the Nominated Principal Applicant submits more than two applications, CIHR will automatically withdraw the last application(s) submitted based on time-stamp of submission.
  7. Applicants must comply with CIHR’s Policy on Identical / Essentially Identical Applications
  8. Individuals who hold a Foundation Grant in the role of Program Leader are eligible to apply to the Project Grant competition in the role of Nominated Principal Applicant or Principal Applicant only 18 months prior to their grant expiry date.

Note: Inclusion within the ECR cohort is based on the ECR eligibility status of the Nominated Principal Applicant, at the application deadline.

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

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