Funding Organization
Research Category
Please see below for competition timelines for the CIHR Project Grant: Fall 2021 competition.
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. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.
The Project Grant program is open to applicants in all areas of health research that are aligned with the CIHR mandate: "To excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system".
Applications involving interdisciplinary research are accepted and encouraged. Furthermore, for the Fall 2021 Project Grant competition, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) launched a pilot Tri-Agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee (TAIPR).
UPEI Application Process
The application process for this funding opportunity is comprised of two steps: Registration and Full Application, to be completed using ResearchNet.
Registration
In order to be eligible to apply to the full application, a Registration must be submitted by August 18, 2021. Applicants are not required to submit their registration to Research Services for review and approval.
Full Application
1) UPEI internal approval
Applicants must submit a penultimate copy of their application using the UPEI Romeo Researcher Portal and selecting the "Research Funding Administrative Approvals Form for GRANT Applications (rev Dec 2020)". Instructions for using the Researcher Portal can be found here. Applicants are requested to submit by September 8, 2021, ensuring that the application is received by Research Services by September 10, 2021.
2) Online submission
In order to provide the Office of Research Services sufficient time to access and submit applications, applicants are requested to submit using ResearchNet by September 14, 2021. Research Services will forward the application to CIHR by the agency deadline of September 15, 2021.
Webinars
CIHR will be hosting the following webinars to support participants with the requirements of the Fall 2021 Project Grant competition.
English Sessions
Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 2:00 – 3:00 PM (Atlantic Time) Join
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 12:00 – 1:00 PM (Atlantic Time) Join
French Sessions
Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 12:00 – 1:00 PM (Atlantic Time) Join
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 2:00 – 3:00 PM (Atlantic Time) Join