the objective of the idea to innovation (i2i) grants is to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology originating from the university and college sector and promote its transfer to a new or established canadian company. the i2i grants provide funding to college and university faculty members to support research and development projects with recognized technology transfer potential. this is achieved through defined phases by providing crucial assistance in the early stages of technology validation and market connection.

the objective of the idea to innovation (i2i) grants is to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology originating from the university and college sector and promote its transfer to a new or established canadian company. the i2i grants provide funding to college and university faculty members to support research and development projects with recognized technology transfer potential. this is achieved through defined phases by providing crucial assistance in the early stages of technology validation and market connection.

although this call invites proposals related to any technological or market area, special attention is being given to the following sectors:

• health and bio-sciences, including healthy ageing, mental health, biomedicine and biomedical engineering
• digital technologies, including cyber security, smart cities and smart mobility
• agricultural technologies and agri-food technologies
• clean technologies and low carbon economy technologies, including materials for clean fuels, clean transportation/mobility, climate resilient building/infrastructure, renewable energy, water and waste water management

to be considered for funding, applicants must form a project consortium and develop a collaborative research and development (r&d) project that meets the following criteria:

1. the project consortium must include at least:
   • 1 incorporated canadian small or medium-sized enterprise (sme), defined as a for-profit company with 500 or fewer full-time equivalent employees
     • participation of canadian research institutes/universities, large enterprises and other companies are welcome as additional participants on a self-funding basis or subcontractors
   • 1 eligible israeli r&d-performing company
     • participation of israeli research institutes/universities are welcome as subcontractors
2. the project partners that form the consortium must:
   • be capable of implementing the project including funding their respective share
   • agree in advance on intellectual property rights and a commercialization strategy
   • not be related in terms of corporate ownership
3. the project must focus on co-developing a product, process, or technology-based service that:
   • is highly innovative
   • has significant commercial potential
   • has outcomes that can be realized within 2 years of completion of the project, and
   • does not involve r&d related to products, processes, or technological-based services with military or non-peaceful applications
4. the project must demonstrate:
   • the unique scientific and technological contribution that each organization brings to the project
   • an obvious advantage and added value for each project partner resulting from the collaboration, such as an increased knowledge base, an access to r&d infrastructure or new fields of application or a solutions for commercial needs
   • an adequate balance and significance for all project partners, defined as no more than 70% of the project budget contributed by any one organization or country

in addition to the above eligibility requirements, each applicant must meet their country-specific requirements, outlined below:

3.1 canadian eligibility requirements

canadian applicant(s) must also meet the following criteria.

1. the canadian sme must have a technology that is:
   • competitive in global markets, differentiated, and protectable, such as a unique or novel patentable technology that may alter the industry or market
2. the canadian sme must be committed to:
   • pursuing growth and profit by developing and commercializing innovative, technology-driven new or improved products, processes or technological-based services
   • aggressive growth through global market expansion
3. the canadian sme must be ready, and have the resources to:
   • make a serious new market entry push, typically having more than 10 full-time equivalent employees and $1 million cad in annual revenue
   • complete a collaborative project with international partners

the objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• to promote the application of new and existing knowledge on shared pathways that drive inflammation in chronic conditions to be targeted in subsequent human intervention trials;
• to promote a precision medicine approach that equitably delivers the benefit of interventions and improves health outcomes for all individuals; and
• to promote a high quality, interdisciplinary training and mentoring environment to prepare the next generation of leaders in inflammation research

the national housing strategy research and planning fund provides support for housing research. the objectives of the fund are to:

• build collaboration, engagement and alignment with stakeholders working to achieve common goals
• support the housing community’s research capacity development

1. begin accepting applications – october 22, 2020
   
   
2. application, applicant guide, characteristics of strong proposals
   
   
3. webinar on the competition will be held on november 4th at 1:00 p.m. (french) and 2:30 p.m. (english)
   
   
4. deadline to submit applications for stage one – november 27, 2020 by 2:00 p.m. (in the respective time zone of the lead applicant organization)
   
   
5. deadline to submit applications for stage two (for those applicants invited to submit) – march 15, 2021
   
   
6. identification of successful applicants – may 2021

partnership engage grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the insight program and the connection program. however, partnership engage grants cannot respond exclusively to the objectives of the connection program.

these grants provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. the small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through partnership engage grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. in addressing an organization-specific need, challenge and/or opportunity, these partnerships let non-academic organizations and postsecondary researchers access each other’s unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities on topics of mutual interest.

sshrc welcomes applications involving indigenous research, as well as those involving research-creation.

for tools and resources to assist in the planning and implementation of your partnership, see sshrc’s partnerships tool-kit.

connection grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the connection program.

these grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. these events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage on research issues of value to those participating. events and outreach activities funded by a connection grant may often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.

connection grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, or other events or outreach activities that facilitate:

• disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the social sciences and humanities;
• scholarly exchanges between those working in the social sciences and humanities and those working in other research fields;
• intersectoral exchanges between academic researchers in the social sciences and humanities and researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors; and/or
• international research collaboration and scholarly exchanges with researchers, 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 and non-academic partners from other countries.

the specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• to support early career investigators in initiating and conducting independent research in the area of maternal, reproductive, child and youth health with the goal of building research capacity in this important health research area.
• to generate new knowledge that will contribute to improving maternal, reproductive, child and youth health outcomes, as well as increasing our understanding of the challenges, needs and current gaps in this research area.
• to facilitate knowledge exchange and translation between early career researchers and other stakeholders in maternal, reproductive, child and youth health. 

the objective of this funding opportunity is to support a knowledge synthesis network designed to collaborate and rapidly respond to the need for synthesized evidence across the full breadth of canada's covid-19 pandemic response (including public-health measures, clinical management, health-system arrangements, and economic and social impacts). through a highly collaborative approach, the knowledge synthesis network is expected to:

• produce rapid knowledge syntheses and associated evidence-based products (e.g., evidence profiles) related to the covid-19 pandemic, based on current evidence and that responds to an identified evidence need;
• provide decision-makers with high-quality, timely, accessible and relevant evidence for the rapid translation of knowledge into policy, practice and/or clinical guidelines to address the immediate response to the pandemic; and
• address evidence gaps and build the evidence base for the response to covid-19;
• enhance national and international coordination across knowledge synthesis experts and organizations involved in producing covid-19 related products.

these objectives will be achieved through the following actions:  

• preparing and updating rapid knowledge syntheses and/or associated evidence-based products (e.g., evidence profiles), and contextualization briefs for knowledge users, as requested;
• maintaining and updating completed knowledge syntheses with relevant publications, as required/requested;
• creating and/or maintaining a free, publically available, searchable inventory of knowledge syntheses, other evidence-based products (e.g., evidence profiles, health technology assessments), and knowledge synthesis guidance documents related to covid-19;
• sharing expertise, leveraging resources, and minimizing duplication of effort with knowledge synthesis stakeholders by participating in federal/ provincial/territorial coordination mechanisms (e.g., through the canadian public health network);
• developing an environmental scanning function to identify future canadian evidentiary needs; and
• coordinating with canadian and international knowledge synthesis groups and organizations in order to exchange best practices, disseminate canadian products, and improve knowledge synthesis efficiencies in the content of covid-19.

cihr requires the applicant team to describe the extent to which sex-and gender-based analysis (sgba+) has been appropriately considered in publications included in their syntheses, including any potential limitations there may be in this regard. sgba+ refers to the consideration and examination of sex, gender and other identity factors (e.g., age, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, geography, education, disability, income and sexual orientation) at all stages of the research process. applying an sgba+ lens is important to help formulate health research, policies and programs that are relevant to the diversity of the canadian population.