Funding Opportunities

Planning and Dissemination Grants are intended to provide support for planning and/or dissemination activities consistent with the mandate of CIHR and relevant to CIHR Institutes, Initiatives, or the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) Community Outreach Fund. CIHR integrates research through a unique interdisciplinary structure made up of 13 virtual Institutes.

The NS Museum Research Grant Program annually contributes funding toward research projects that improve Nova Scotians' understanding of heritage or offer a different interpretation of the province's cultural history.

The Canadian High Arctic Research Station’s (CHARS) pan-northern S&T program has launched its’ first call for Proposals. This first CFP’s will initiate elements of the CHARS program by requesting proposals that will: strengthen monitoring in northern Canada; and fill research gaps in northern regions of significant resource development. For the purposes of CHARS, Canada’s Arctic is defined as the lands and waters that lie north of the permafrost line.

To a Maximum of $20,000 will be awarded for a paper that addresses current issues in Canadian insolvency policy and practice.  Papers should be 7,000 to 10,000 words in length and should be written for an audience consisting of those involved in insolvency practice, insolvency law or in the development and analysis of insolvency policy. In some years, the Foundation has divided the Fellowship between two worthy proposals.

The Foundation looks forward to receiving again this year a number of interesting research proposals.