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The Project Scheme is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports projects with a specific purpose and a defined endpoint.
The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.
The Project Scheme is expected to:
- Support a diverse portfolio of health-related research and knowledge translation projects at any stage, from discovery to application, including commercialization.
- Contribute to the creation and use of health-related knowledge; Promote relevant collaborations across disciplines, professions, and sectors.
For more information see Funding Opportunities Details on ResearchNet.
The Foundation Scheme is designed by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to contribute to a sustainable foundation of health research leaders, by providing long-term support of innovative, high-impact programs of research. Programs of research are expected to include integrated, thematically-linked research, knowledge translation and mentoring/training components.
The Foundation Scheme includes a separate stream for new/early career investigators with excellent training and early-career success, and will provide them with an opportunity to build promising programs of research.
The Foundation Scheme is expected to:
- Support a broad base of researcher leaders across career stages, areas, and disciplines relevant to health.
- Develop and maintain Canadian capacity in research and other health-related fields
- Provide research leaders with the flexibility to pursue new, innovative lines of inquiry.
- Contribute to the creation and use of health-related knowledge through a wide range of research and/or knowledge translation activities, including any relevant collaboration.
Value: $50,000-1.5 million per year
Duration: 5 Years (Early career/emerging investigators.
7 Years (established investigators)
For more information see Funding Opportunities Details on ResearchNet.
Important Dates
The Project Scheme
| Competition | 201603PJT |
| Registration Deadline | 2016-01-25 |
| Application Deadline | 2016-03-01 |
| Anticipated Notice of Decision | 2016-07-15 |
| Funding Start Date | 2016-07-01 |
The Foundation Scheme
| Competition | Deadline |
| Registration | 2015-07-27 |
| Application - Stage 1 | 2015-09-15 |
| Application - Stage 2 | 2016-02-05 |
| Anticipated Notice of Decision - Stage 1 | 2015-12-01 |
| Anticipated Notice of Decision - Final Assessment Stage | 2016-07-15 |
| Funding Start Date | 2016-07-01 |