Announcements + Updates
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January 13, 2025
SPARC Update: Spring 2025 CIHR Project Grant Competition Now Open
Registration for the Spring 2025 Project Grant competition is now open on ResearchNet!1. Key CIHR DeadlinesSpring 2025 Registration Deadline: Wednesday, February 5Spring 2025 Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 52. NOD/NOR DecisionsFall 2024 competition results will now include ranking zones (e…
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January 13, 2025
Two CIHR-hosted Project Grant Webinars (Jan. 22, 8am and Feb. 6, 10am)
CIHR will be hosting two webinars to support participants with the requirements of the funding opportunity “Spring 2025 Project Grant” and to answer questions on how to apply.English Session 1Duration: 60 minutesWhen: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM PST | JoinEnglish Session 2Duration: 60…
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January 8, 2025
Changes to Notices of Recommendation and Notices of Decision for the Project Grant competition
Building on CIHR's November 12, 2024 "Update to Notice of Recommendation and Notice of Decision templates for the Project Grant competition" announcement, CIHR circulated the following "Changes coming to Notices of Recommendation and Notices of Decision for the Project Grant competition" message to…
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January 7, 2025
Two Horizon Europe-hosted webinars: Canadian Battery Innovators (Jan. 22, 9am) and Cluster 2 Info Session (Jan. 29, 6am)
Horizon Europe – Funding Opportunities for Canadian Battery Innovators: January 22, 2025 09:00 - 10:00 AM PSTDescriptionCanada has now associated to the world’s largest research and innovation programme – Horizon Europe. Canadian organisations are fully eligible to be part of a pan-European…
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January 6, 2025
SPARC Review of SSHRC Insight Development Grants 2025
All applicants are invited to submit their Insight Development Grant materials (both individual modules and full proposals are accepted) for review by or before Monday January 20th at 9am. SPARC staff will return feedback on the One Page Summary and Budget modules by end of day Wednesday,…
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January 6, 2025
2025/2026 NSERC CREATE - Important Changes and Competition Support
For the 2025/2026 CREATE competition, NSERC has announced that there are no limits to how many Letters of Intent universities can submit. As such, there will be no internal selection process at UBC this year. For more information, please review NSERC's CREATE Program Description and LOI…
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January 6, 2025
Horizon Europe Webinars for UBC Researchers: Using Crowdhelix to Find Reseach Partners (Jan. 21 and 22, 10am)
Join Paul McKenna from Crowdhelix to learn how to find partnerships for Horizon Europe funding opportunities. These webinars are exclusive to UBC researchers and scholars.Researchers need only attend one of each webinar, as the content is repeated on the second day.Identifying Horizon Europe…
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December 16, 2024
2024-25 Research on Research Joint Initiative (RORI) - SPARC resource + SSHRC webinar slides
Please visit SPARC's CWL Resources (scroll to "SSHRC RESOURCES", then to "SSHRC Joint Initiatives and Special Calls") to access two resources for the Research on Research Joint Initiative between the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health…
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December 11, 2024
UBC Internal Selection Deadline for SSHRC Destination Horizon - now closed
The UBC internal selection deadline for this competition has now passed.Overview: Destination Horizon Grants support researchers affiliated with eligible Canadian postsecondary institutions to build capacity, foster existing partnerships, and further develop networks and/or consortia with …
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December 3, 2024
Support available for NSERC-NSF joint call on Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)
NSERC is partnering with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to support Canadian academic researchers working with university collaborators from the United States to build interdisciplinary teams working synergistically to build the fundamental knowledge base needed to advance the…