June 28, 2023
CIHR Project Grant - Fall 2023 Competition Launching Soon
Competition Overview & Deadlines
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for 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. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.
The Fall 2023 CIHR Project Grant competition will launch on July 7, 2023. While we await the competition details, you may want to mark the following key dates in your calendars. Note that registration is mandatory and will open once the competition launches.
Competition Deadlines
- CIHR Registration Deadline: Thursday, August 17, 2023 - 6:00 PM
- RSO Internal Deadline for Full Applications: Monday, September 11, 2023 - Noon
If you have any questions about the CIHR Fall 2023 Project Grant competition please contact: Brandi Povitz (brandi.povitz@ucalgary.ca).
Grant Development Resources
There are a number of resources available on the faculty Internal Peer Review (IPR) site to help you develop your application:
- Internal peer review planners to help you plan and prepare for effective internal peer review
- A library of successful applications
- A list of review committee mandates and individuals who have recently reviewed for each committee
- Past OADR Grant development webinars and slides, including our Black Box of CIHR Peer Review Committees series
- A budget calculator (updates coming July 2023) and other budgeting resources to help you create your budget
- An updated Guide for Registering and a Guide for Applying (will be available once CIHR officially launches the Fall 2023 competition)
Faculty Information Sessions & Grant Development Webinars
CIHR Project Grant Spring 2023 - Faculty Information Sessions
The CSM Grant Development team will be holding two information sessions to help applicants (and teams) prepare for the fall competition. Please encourage any staff or trainees that will be assisting with your application to attend. Both sessions will include tips for completing and submitting your Project Grant application.
Session 1 will cover both the registration and application requirements. Session 2 will focus on the application stage and will dedicate more time to Q&A.
Info Session 1
July 13, 2023
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Zoom
Info Session 2
August 9, 2023
10:00 - 11:30 AM
Zoom
Planning the Best Response to an Unsuccessful Grant
July 12, 2023
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Zoom
You put your heart, soul and precious time into your last grant application but weren’t funded. What do you do now?
Dr. Savraj Grewal, Associate Dean, Research Grants, and Brandi Povitz, Research Grants Development Officer, will discuss the various pathways you can take to get your project funded and the resources available to help you improve your next application.
Dr. Jennifer Corcoran, Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, will share how she recently turned an unsuccessful CIHR Project Grant around and her tips for crafting an effective response to reviewer feedback.
While this session will focus on resubmissions to the CIHR Project Grant competition, the strategies that will be discussed can be applied to other grants as well.
Budgeting for Patient Engagement
July 19, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Zoom
Dr. Paul Fairie, Sadia Ahmed, and Matthew Luzentales-Simpson of the Alberta Strategy for Patient Oriented Research SUPPORT Unit (AbSPORU) Patient Engagement Team will explain the features of a comprehensive patient engagement budget. The webinar will cover critical areas of spending such as compensation of patient research partners and training and workshop opportunities. The speakers will also describe other opportunities for spending in order to create a practical patient engagement plan for a competitive grant application.
Grant Basics: How to Submit Your Research Grant & Introduction to the Canadian Common CV and CIHR Biosketch
August 22, 2023
How to Submit Your Research Grant: 2:00 - 2:30 PM
Introduction to the CCV and CIHR Biosketch: 2:30 - 3:00 PM
Zoom
This two-part webinar will help you (and your staff) submit your research grant application and prepare your CCV without a hitch.
In part one, we will explain what faculty members need to do to submit a research grant to a funding agency. We will guide you through the University of Calgary’s internal processes and required approvals, provide tips to avoid common Research Management System (RMS) issues, and explain the general process for submitting your final, approved application to the funding agency.
In part two, we will explain how to create a CV using the Canadian Common CV (CCV) system. We will highlight the main features of the CCV system, explain how to complete the different sections of a CIHR Biosketch, and address frequently asked questions.
Questions about the Fall 2023 CIHR Project Grant Competition?
Contact:
Brandi Povitz
Research Grants Development Officer
Cumming School of Medicine
G351B, Health Sciences Building
403.220.3082 • brandi.povitz@ucalgary.ca
- In-person and virtual consultations: Available upon request.
- Drop-in office hours (HS G351B): Mondays from 1-3 PM and Fridays from 10 AM - noon (except July 24-August 7).