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Message from the Tri-Agency Presidents
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The presidents of the granting councils are pleased to announce that we will be gradually transitioning away from the Canadian Common CV (CCV) to a new narrative-style CV for their competitions.
The transition to a new tri-agency CV complements the work underway on the Tri-agency grants management solution (TGMS), a project to modernize the granting councils’ grants management systems to better support applicants, administrators, and reviewers. The new tri-agency CV will serve as the CV component of TGMS.
The tri-agency CV template was developed through extensive consultation with users and has been piloted by the granting councils in select funding opportunities. During TGMS journey-mapping exercises, users voiced support for a new CV template that would allow applicants to include a free-form narrative personal statement, aligning with trends seen in other funding agencies like the US National Institutes of Health and UK Research and Innovation.
The new CV will prioritize written descriptions of an applicant’s research contributions, allowing users to highlight a wide range of research outputs and to describe their career trajectories in more detail. This format values societal research outcomes, such as influence on policy or mentorship, alongside more traditional research outputs like publications.
As this move will be a major change for the research community, users will be provided with clear instructions and learning opportunities to understand how to navigate the new tri-agency CV.
Details about the TGMS implementation plan will be shared in the coming months. Funding opportunities launched on TGMS will include the new tri-agency CV. In the short term, the granting councils will continue to use the new tri-agency CV in select funding opportunities delivered through their respective legacy systems.
On behalf of:
Tammy Clifford - Acting President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Prof. Alejandro Adem - President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Ted Hewitt - President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)