Research Management Services

Application deadline: August 20, 2021

The CIHR Reviewer in Training (RiT) program offers Early Career Researchers (ECRs) a learning opportunity to gain a better understanding of the elements of high quality review and the peer review process through direct participation in the Project Grant competition with the support of a Mentor. RiT participants will be assigned three applications to conduct practice reviews, attend the peer review meeting, present their review(s), and participate in the committee meeting.

July 29, 2021 | 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. HNE | Online - Zoom | Free

Created by uOttawa’s Vulnerability, Trauma, Resilience and Culture (V-TRaC) Research Laboratory, the training series aims raising awareness and offering tools on anti-racism to university and school students, members of community organizations, and to decision makers of the education sector from all provinces. Speeches, testimonials and a presentation of modules will provide attendants with an overview the training project. 

For any questions, please contact: wdari048@uottawa.

As of July 12, 2021, applicants (and their institutions) are required to complete the National Security Guidelines for Research Partnerships’ risk assessment form for all Alliance grant applications involving one or more partner organizations from the private sector. For such partnerships, applicants must submit the completed risk assessment form as an integral part of the NSERC Alliance application. For more information, please read the news release.

All relevant instructions and resources on the Alliance website and in the online system have been updated. A summary of program changes is provided in the Alliance Latest news. Applicants can submit their Alliance applications starting July 23, 2021. Please see your Research Facilitator for more details.

Registration deadline: August 18, 2021

Application deadline: September 15, 2021

The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes by supporting projects of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health.

Grant Value: $ 250,000

Webinar in French: August 12, 2021 | 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EST | Join webinar | Password: pbVE336Nmpy

Webinar in French: August 12, 2021 | 01:00 a.m. to 03:00 p.m. EST | Join webinar | Password: CPmZji4aJ23

Application deadline – Letter of intent: September 21, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. EST

Application deadline: October 26, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. EST

The goal of this rapid response call is to accelerate the exploration of new approaches and the development and testing of new directions in research methodologies. It is expected that this call will predominately support new ways of conducting community and field-based research, since the pandemic has had the greatest impact on researchers’ ability to collect data and conduct this type of research.

Grant Value: $125,000 per year

Application deadline: December 7, 2021

Research grants are intended to support basic science research. Studies may be carried out at the subcellular, cellular, animal, or patient levels. To be considered, proposals must be hypothesis-driven and provide sufficient preliminary data to justify Cystic Fibrosis Foundation support.