the specific objective of this funding opportunity is to generate and share knowledge that will achieve one or more of the following:

• improve understanding of barriers to and opportunities for positive physical, social, and mental health outcomes for lgbtqia/2s individuals, families and communities whose health is impacted by the intersections of their sexual orientation, gender, race/ethnicity, experiences of racism, and/or additional intersecting social identities, positions and processes, including but not limited to ableism, age, classism, disability, faith, heterosexism, homophobia, immigrant and/or refugee status, indigeneity, language, transphobia and xenophobia.
• inform the implementation and/or sustainability and scale-up of new or existing community-based interventions to improve health and wellness for lgbtqia/2s communities from an intersectional perspective.
• evaluate the reach, effectiveness, and benefits of community-based interventions to improve health and wellness for lgbtqia/2s communities from an intersectional perspective.

budget 2021 proposed $319 million over seven years for innovation in carbon capture utilization and storage (ccus). these funds will bring together businesses, academia, non-profits, industry, government, and federal laboratories on the path to net-zero emissions by 2050.

this is the first call for ccus project proposals by the office of energy research and development (oerd) with a focus on front-end engineering design studies. future calls will be announced on the oerd energy innovation program web page.

1.1 call overview: front end engineering and design (feed) studies

although ccus technologies have been deployed and demonstrated at large scale at various sites in canada - such as the quest and boundary dam projects - the application of ccus across industry remains nascent, with a limited number of commercial scale facilities in operation globally. to ensure that ccus technologies have an opportunity to be deployed broadly in industries that have limited options to decarbonize by 2050, more facilities need to be demonstrated at scale.

a critical and costly step in this process is completing a feed study. performing a feed study helps reduce the technical and commercial risk of a project to the point where an investment decision can be made to proceed with construction. it also provides an opportunity to evaluate and benchmark near commercial technologies helping them to come to market

guggenheim fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.

fellowships are awarded through an annual competition open to citizens and permanent residents of the united states and canada. candidates must apply to the guggenheim foundation in order to be considered.

the foundation receives approximately 3,000 applications each year. although no one who applies is guaranteed success in the competition, there is no prescreening: all applications are reviewed. approximately 175 fellowships are awarded each year.

the seventh round of open research area (ora) for the social sciences is based on an agreement among the anr, france; the deutsche forschungsgemeinschaft (dfg), germany; the economic and social research council of uk research and innovation (esrc), uk; and the social sciences and humanities research council (sshrc), canada.

with the goals of funding high-quality research within their own countries and strengthening international co-operation by working with some of the best researchers internationally, anr, dfg, esrc and sshrc are launching a seventh ora call for proposals in order to fund the best joint research projects. the scheme will provide funding for integrated projects by researchers coming from at least three of the four subscribing countries.

proposals may involve any of the disciplines, thematic areas or approaches eligible for sshrc funding. however, the disciplinary coverage varies according to the involvement of the national agencies. applicants who are uncertain of whether their proposal would be eligible should contact the relevant national agencies for clarification.

there is also a special opportunity for co-operation with projects in japan. with the aim of strengthening co-operation between researchers in japan and ora partners, the japan society for the promotion of science (jsps), as the national funding organization of japan, offers a funding scheme to support projects associated with ora. for details on the japanese call, please visit the jpsp’s website.

ora 7 will have a new format as compared to earlier ora funding opportunities. this competition will follow a one-stage, one-application process consisting of a full proposal with a deadline date of november 17, 2021.

national funding agencies will fund proposals according to their respective policies and regulations and the affiliation of the researchers. canadian teams participating in successful ora 7 international projects will be funded by sshrc based on the funding request outlined in the sshrc national financial form.

this call will support projects in ukraine that are consistent with the inclusive governance action area policy of canada’s feminist international assistance policy. it will support projects that strengthen the capacity of local and national government and non-government actors to respond in a more inclusive, transparent and accountable manner to the needs of all citizens, including women and girls and other vulnerable or marginalized groups, while also supporting their empowerment to claim their rights.

specifically, the call will fund proposals that are aligned with canada’s inclusive governance policy priorities of enhancing participation in public life and ensuring that public services work for everyone.

to help meet these priorities in ukraine, global affairs canada will only consider concept notes that propose to work in at least one of the following three inclusive governance areas:

1. support to civil society organizations and citizen engagement, including civic education;
2. support to local governance and local, district, and regional governments, in the context of decentralization and regional development reforms in ukraine, with a particular focus on sectoral decentralization (such as, but not limited to, delivery of social services and domestic resource mobilization at the local level); and,
3. support to public administration reform, including local, district and regional level public administrations, inclusive policy making and local public finance management.

canada’s feminist international assistance policy states that: “no less than 95 percent of canada’s bilateral international development assistance initiatives will target or integrate gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.” priority will be given to proposals that meet the requirement of targeting (ge-3) or fully integrating (ge-2) gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment in their design. applicants must include gender-based analysis plus (gba+) that identifies gender equality gaps and ensures that proposed solutions directly respond to the gba+ analysis, across activities, outputs and outcomes.

please contact jill sherman, international research facilitator, at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca by september 15, 2021, if this funding opportunity is of interest (organizations can only be the lead on one application).

the specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• generate relevant and timely evidence about the impacts of innovations in how healthcare systems and services are organized, delivered, governed, held accountable, financed, and/or funded on the quadruple aim goals and equity, and which innovations have the most potential for transformative impact in the canadian context;
• respond to a policy and/or decision maker's evidence needs and help to inform decisions, policies or actions that advance achievement of the quadruple aim goals and health equity for all; and
• catalyze future transformative, collaborative research between researchers, policy and/or decision makers, healthcare providers and patients that can be pursued through cihr's project grant competition or other relevant strategic funding competitions.