SSHRC Insight Grant

The program description for the SSHRC Insight Grant (which replaces the SRG) has now been released.  Please see the details here:


http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/insight_grants-subventions_savoir-eng.aspx

Updated SSHRC Eligibility Regulations

The following was recently communicated to the U of S by a SSHRC program officer:

Please note the following:

If you applied for an Insight Development Grant in 2011, you CANNOT apply for an Insight Grant in 2011 (whether you were successful or not)
If you apply for an Insight Grant in 2011, you CAN apply for an Insight Development Grant in 2012 (whether you were successful or not) – and hold both if successful

Please circulate – thank you.

Luc Lebrun
Program Officer | Agent de programme
Research Portfolio | Portefeuille de la recherche
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
350 Albert Street | 350, rue Albert, Ottawa, ON  K1P 6G4
E | C : Luc.Lebrun@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
T : 613.992.5146   F | T : 613.992.7635
www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca

Information Session: Partners for Development

Invitation to an information session on a major international funding opportunity funded by CIDA

Funding Program: Partners for Development—Canadian Universities
Funder: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Value: $500,000 to $5 million up to five years
Due date: 2 p.m. PST (Pacific Standard Time), Thursday, October 13, 2011
Program link: http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/acdi-cida/ACDI-CIDA.nsf/eng/ANN-524911-HA7


You are cordially invited to an information session on the CIDA’s Partners for Development Program and the UofS internal Letter of Intent (LOI) process. The session is organized by the International Research Office (IRO). The IRO team will be available to answer your questions about the internal review process and the support system. Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to attend this information session to learn more about this major funding opportunity.  If you are unable to attend please email le.li@usask.ca to indicate your interest in the program and we will follow up with you.  

Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Location: Meeting Room 2, NRC-PBI building, 110 Gymnasium Place
Refreshments will be provided

Please note:
- CIDA allows two applications per university
- There will be UofS internal review process
- Due date for Letter of Intent (LOI): July 29, 2011, 4:30 pm
- Two successful LOIs will be selected and announced on August 12, 2011
- Internal deadline for full proposal: October 7, 2011, 4:30 pm

Please reply as soon as possible, but no later than Tuesday, June 28th to Le Li at le.li@usask.ca if you are planning to attend or not. Also, please help us share the information far and wide to those you know who might be interested.


Partners for Development—Canadian Universities
The Canadian International Development Agency’s (CIDA) Partnerships with Canadians Branch (PWCB) is launching, under its Partners for Development program, a call for proposals of up to $50 million for international development projects to be implemented by Canadian universities. The objective of this call is to support the international work of Canadian universities in contributing to Canada's efforts to reduce poverty in developing countries.

This call will fund projects from Canadian universities in partnership with institutions and organizations in developing countries. CIDA will contribute between $500,000 and $5 million to projects with a duration of up to five years. CIDA will contribute up to 75 percent of total project costs. Universities must contribute at least 25 percent of total project costs, either as a cash or in-kind contribution. Overhead is included in the total cost of the project.

This call will contribute to the CIDA targets of:
Allocating half of PWCB funding to CIDA's countries of focus and half to other countries eligible for official development assistance
Aligning 80 percent of PWCB funding to CIDA's priority themes: increasing food security, securing the future of children and youth, and stimulating sustainable economic growth

For more information please visit:
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/acdi-cida/ACDI-CIDA.nsf/eng/ANN-524911-HA7

IDRC: Small Grants for Innovative Research and Knowledge Sharing

IDRC Small Grants for Innovative Research and Knowledge-Sharing (deadline July 31)

Funder: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

A call for concept notes is expected to be announced on July 1st with a deadline of July 31st. There will be four calls per fiscal year.

Please note applications are accepted from organizations only, not individuals. Please contact le.li@usask.ca if you have an interest in pursuing this opportunity. Our International Research Office team would be very pleased to assist with the development of the application and coordinate the submission process.

This call offers two types of funding:

1) Support to events and to small dissemination activities and products.

Events, usually conferences, workshops, and dialogues. Events must be hosted in large part by one or more Canadian organizations. Grants are often used to support the active participation of people from low- and middle-income countries (e.g., as speakers); grants are generally not used to support the participation of Canadians or people from high-income countries.

Dissemination activities and products. Requests for journal support should outline opportunities for IDRC content or demonstrate over 50% Southern authorship. Requests for dissemination activities and products should have formal ties to an IDRC-supported project or network.

2) Support to research, knowledge-building, and knowledge-sharing projects.

Value: CAD$1,000 to $15,000 for events and small dissemination-based activities and products. CAD$20,000 to $60,000 for research and knowledge projects. Project duration must not exceed 30 months, including all proposed research activities funded by the grant and final reporting.

For more information please visit:
http://publicwebsite.idrc.ca/EN/Funding/Competitions/Pages/CompetitionDetails.aspx?CompetitionID=12

Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program

Funding Opportunity: Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program for Canadian Scholars and Students (deadline Nov 15)


Traditional Fulbright Scholar Awards are open to scholars in all fields (excluding medical training) and are designed to enable emerging and established scholars, post-doctoral researchers and experienced professionals to conduct research, teach, or undertake a combination of both activities for one semester or a full academic year at a university or research centre of their choice in the United States.

Value: The award is a fixed sum of US$25,000 for a full academic year (nine months) or US$12,500 for one semester. Basic health insurance is also provided.

Deadline: November 15, 2011

http://www.fulbright.ca/programs/canadian-scholars/traditional-awards-2.html


Traditional Fulbright Student Awards are intended for graduate students, prospective graduate students and junior professionals who wish to enroll in a graduate studies program, continue their current course of graduate study and research, or pursue an independent research project for a period of nine months in the United States.

Value: US$15,000 for a full academic year (nine months). Grants may, under exceptional circumstances, be offered for different periods and may be pro-rated accordingly. Grantees are expected to use the award to cover expenses related to their studies and/or research, such as housing, travel, tuition and other academic expenditures. Basic health insurance is provided, along with visa, and other professional services.

Deadline: November 15, 2011

http://www.fulbright.ca/programs/canadian-students/traditional-awards.html

For further information, or to indicate your interest in this opportunity, please contact le.li@usask.ca

LACREG 2011

Funding Opportunity: Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants (LACREG) 2011 Competition

The Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants (LACREG) program has been managed by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) with financial support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) since 1995.

The new Phase of the LACREG program (2011-2014) will consist of two competitions. The deadline for this first competition is October 6, 2011 and AUCC plans to announce the results of the competition before the end of November, 2011. It is expected that the next competition will be launched in March 2012 with a June 2012 application deadline. The amount of funding available per competition is $190,000 and it is anticipated that at least 15 grants will be awarded per competition..

Projects must address one or more of the IDRC’s research themes:
• agriculture and the environment;
• science, technology, and innovation;
• social and economic policy; and
• health and health systems.

Value: $15,000 CAD. Support through this program must be cost-shared on a 2:1 ratio by the program and the partner institutions, respectively. Partner institutions must make a cash or in-kind contribution to cover at least one-third of the total cost.

Eligibility: Applicants from Canada and eligible Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries are encouraged to apply.
The LACREG program applies to collaborative research between Canada and the following LAC countries: Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.

Deadline: Thursday, October 6, 2011 (4:00 p.m. EST)

Application forms and guidelines:
http://www.aucc.ca/programs/intprograms/lacreg/2010-11_e.html

Please note a number of changes have been brought to this year’s guidelines so please read them carefully.

Former LACREG awardees at the UofS are willing to share their proposals. Please contact le.li@usask.ca if you have an interest in pursuing this opportunity and our International Research Office team would be very pleased to assist with the development of the application.

Tri-Council Policy Change: Student Stipends

What follows is an announcement of a policy change from the Tri-Councils regarding student stipends in SSHRC and CIHR grants:


This is to advise you of important changes regarding stipends for students and postdoctoral fellows paid from grants from the three federal research granting agencies.
As you are aware, the federal research granting agencies (NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC) have in the past followed different practices with regard to the level of stipends which can be paid to students and postdoctoral fellows. Over the years we had heard from institutions and researchers that these different practices were too rigid, may limit the researchers’ ability to recruit students and provide them with compensation that was competitive and fair, made it difficult to manage interdisciplinary teams and increased the administrative burden on institutions Thus, in March 2011, as part of the ongoing effort to harmonize policies across the three agencies, the agency Presidents agreed that granting agency regulations on support for students and trainees paid through grants should be removed.
The removal of these regulations will address the concerns we had received over the years.
Therefore, beginning September 2011, the policies and practices of the three agencies will be harmonized, and specific minima or maxima pertaining to stipends paid from grants will no longer be in effect. The Tri-Agency Financial Administration Guide will no longer stipulate the value of stipends that can be paid from grants. In addition, the agencies will remove the restriction on providing supplements from grants (“top- ups”) to award holders.
Many institutions have already set policies on minimum support packages, where stipend support can be assembled from various sources. In other instances, collective agreements may come into play. The granting agencies encourage institutions to continue to ensure that students and postdoctoral fellows are appropriately compensated, commensurate with the important contributions that they make to the research environment of the institution.

CIHR Grant Writing Workshop with Roger Pierson, June 17

There will be a CIHR Workshop on Friday, June 17, 2011 at 9 – 11 am in B450 in the Health Sciences Building which will be led by Dr. Roger Pierson, University CIHR Delegate.  The session is entitled, “What does a CIHR grant proposal look like?”  Dr. Pierson will be outlining the strategic structural components of a CIHR proposal.  Please reply as soon as possible, but no later than Thursday, June 16th to Shalayne Benallack (Shalayne.benallack@usask.ca) if you are planning to attend.