From the call for proposals from Grand Challenges Canada:
Grand Challenges Canada, a not-for-profit hosted at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, is seeking emerging Canadian innovators with creative ideas to solve some of the most persistent health challenges in the developing world through scientific, business, and social innovation. We call this approach Integrated Innovation.
We are looking for innovative ideas to address complex real-world challenges that involve a scientific or technological solution (new or existing) alone or in combination with social and / or business innovations. From a Social Innovation perspective – are there social innovations (including health systems, the determinants of health, ethical/social/cultural/legal frameworks, public policies, leadership and human resources among others) that will be necessary to bring the scientific/technological solutions that are developed to scale in local communities in an appropriate manner? From a Business Innovation perspective – are there appropriate business systems in place to produce and deliver the scientific/technological solution at an affordable price point? For full access to Integrated Innovation publication, please click here.
You must be within ten years from having completed a PhD or a health professional degree.
Deadline for applications is March 7, 2011. In the first round up to 20 grants of $100,000 will be awarded. Awardees from this round will be eligible for subsequent grants of up to one million dollars.
As part of our public engagement process, we are asking you to create a short video to include with your application. Click on the video link to watch a sample submission video on our YouTube channel. In this short video, Dr. Karlee Silver, Program Officer at Grand Challenges Canada, explains our bold idea for making health global, including some helpful tips for creating your own video.
If you are an emerging Canadian innovator and have creative ideas to address serious global health issues, we want to hear from you.
To apply please go to grandchallenges.ca/funding.
Please help us by disseminating this opportunity to your colleagues; for the announcement poster please click here.
For further information, please contact info@grandchallenges.ca
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Water Week (21-25 March)
What follows are some of the talks and events to mark Water Week.
Monday, 21 March
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. “Synchronized Swimming: How citizens, scientists and other species can work together for water right now” with 2010 Governor General’s Award winning author Allan Casey (Convocation Hall)
Tuesday, 22 March (WORLD WATER DAY)
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. World Water Day Student & Young Professional Workshop (175 Physics)
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. “Water Security and the Perfect Storm” with Howard Wheater, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security Public Lecture (Convocation Hall)
Wednesday, 23 March
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. “Unanswered Questions in Predicting the Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change” seminar with Dennis Lettenmeier, University of Washington, (Convocation Hall, part of Centre for Hydrology Seminar Series)
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. “Detecting Unknown Chemical Toxins in the Environment: the Case of PFCs” – John Giesy, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Toxicology, Presentation (Convocation Hall)
Thursday, 24 March
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. “Climate Uncertainty: What it Means for Water Planning and Policy – recent results from Saskatchewan and Arizona” – John Pomeroy, Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change and Patricia Gober, Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (Convocation Hall)
Friday, 25 March
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. “The Selenium Solution” Mindfields Film Screening. Introduction by Ingrid Pickering, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Environmental Science and Graham George, Canada Research Chair in X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (Neatby-Timlin Theatre, Room 241 Arts Building).
7:30 p.m. Canadian premiere of “Strange and Mysterious Waters” by David James performed by the U of S Wind Orchestra Concert (Quance Theatre)
Monday, 21 March
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. “Synchronized Swimming: How citizens, scientists and other species can work together for water right now” with 2010 Governor General’s Award winning author Allan Casey (Convocation Hall)
Tuesday, 22 March (WORLD WATER DAY)
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. World Water Day Student & Young Professional Workshop (175 Physics)
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. “Water Security and the Perfect Storm” with Howard Wheater, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security Public Lecture (Convocation Hall)
Wednesday, 23 March
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. “Unanswered Questions in Predicting the Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change” seminar with Dennis Lettenmeier, University of Washington, (Convocation Hall, part of Centre for Hydrology Seminar Series)
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. “Detecting Unknown Chemical Toxins in the Environment: the Case of PFCs” – John Giesy, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Toxicology, Presentation (Convocation Hall)
Thursday, 24 March
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. “Climate Uncertainty: What it Means for Water Planning and Policy – recent results from Saskatchewan and Arizona” – John Pomeroy, Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change and Patricia Gober, Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (Convocation Hall)
Friday, 25 March
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. “The Selenium Solution” Mindfields Film Screening. Introduction by Ingrid Pickering, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Environmental Science and Graham George, Canada Research Chair in X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (Neatby-Timlin Theatre, Room 241 Arts Building).
7:30 p.m. Canadian premiere of “Strange and Mysterious Waters” by David James performed by the U of S Wind Orchestra Concert (Quance Theatre)
Emerging Engagement Scholars Worshop
Emerging Engagement
Scholars Workshop
September 30-October 4, 2011
Michigan State University
Guidelines:
The deadline for receipt of applications is Thursday, March 31, 2011. Successful applicants will be notified no later than April 22, 2011.
Applicants for this program should be graduate students or junior faculty members with an interest in community engagement and engaged scholarship and/or the scholarship of engagement (that is, involved or interested in research that contributes to their discipline while making a positive impact on external stakeholders), or whose research is about engagement (that is, interested in the processes and outcomes ofcommunity engagement and engaged scholarship).
Applicants must also demonstrate: (1) a desire for new learning about engagement and engaged scholarship, (2) an interest in working with faculty across disciplines to explore and learn more about how engaged scholarship might be carried out, and (3) the capacity to effectively communicate the results of their research to public, academic, and other external audiences.
Successful applicants will be expected to come to the workshop with an idea for an engaged scholarship project, or a research project about the scholarship of engagement, in mind. These projects will be discussed in the context of what is presented during the workshop. Participants are expected to attend all sessions and participate fully in activities of the program.
Visit the National Outreach Scholarship Conference website for information about NOSC 2011. http://outreachscholarship.org/
Scholars Workshop
September 30-October 4, 2011
Michigan State University
Guidelines:
The deadline for receipt of applications is Thursday, March 31, 2011. Successful applicants will be notified no later than April 22, 2011.
Applicants for this program should be graduate students or junior faculty members with an interest in community engagement and engaged scholarship and/or the scholarship of engagement (that is, involved or interested in research that contributes to their discipline while making a positive impact on external stakeholders), or whose research is about engagement (that is, interested in the processes and outcomes ofcommunity engagement and engaged scholarship).
Applicants must also demonstrate: (1) a desire for new learning about engagement and engaged scholarship, (2) an interest in working with faculty across disciplines to explore and learn more about how engaged scholarship might be carried out, and (3) the capacity to effectively communicate the results of their research to public, academic, and other external audiences.
Successful applicants will be expected to come to the workshop with an idea for an engaged scholarship project, or a research project about the scholarship of engagement, in mind. These projects will be discussed in the context of what is presented during the workshop. Participants are expected to attend all sessions and participate fully in activities of the program.
Visit the National Outreach Scholarship Conference website for information about NOSC 2011. http://outreachscholarship.org/
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