Government of Canada announces new funding to support Black scholars

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Jan 2023

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Please see below for a message from the Government of Canada regarding new funding to support Black scholars. For the 2023 NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) competition, applicants who self-identify as Black may be considered above the institution's application limit. Additionally, funding for CIHR and SSHRC USRAs will be administered through the USRA program and will be available for Black undergraduate student researchers (a quota of one CIHR USRA and one SSHRC USRA is anticipated for UPEI). The tri-agency USRA program will launch in January 2023 and further details will be circulated at that time. Please note that CIHR and SSHRC USRAs are currently exclusively for Black student researchers.

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On November 16, 2022, at the Canadian Science Policy Conference, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced new funding for Black scholars.

As announced in Budget 2022, the funds, which will be implemented from 2023–24, include $40.9 million over five years and $9.7 million ongoing to increase the number of awards available to Black scholars. The funds will be offered by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

These funds will help address the disproportionate underfunding of Black scholars at all stages of their careers; will contribute to making Canada’s research culture more equitable, diverse and inclusive; and will strengthen Canada’s innovation potential.

The new funding will allow the agencies to support approximately 400 additional Black scholars annually via existing scholarships and fellowships programs. These include the Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA), the Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s (CGS M) program, the Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral (CGS D) program and agency some specific postdoctoral fellowships programs.

 

Climate Action and Awareness Fund: Request for Proposals - Advancing climate change science and technology

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2021

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The new Climate Action and Awareness Fund (CAAF) will invest $206 million over five years to support Canadian-made projects that help to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. The current request for proposals is seeking projects that advance climate change science and technology in Canada. The objective of this request for proposals is to support projects that will strengthen Canada’s science capacity to understand, identify, accelerate, and evaluate mitigation actions that will work towards achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.
 
Climate change science and technology projects may include activities related to monitoring, data collection, model development, application of novel technologies, and/or knowledge synthesis aimed at enhancing understanding at the national, provincial, regional, or local level, including Indigenous communities.
 
The projects funded by this request for proposals must fall under one of the following themes:
Theme 1: Informing carbon sink enhancements: nature-based climate solutions
Theme 2: Understanding the potential for, and implications of, negative emission technologies
Theme 3: Understanding city- and municipal-level GHG emissions and mitigation effectiveness
Theme 4: Understanding multiple benefits of integrated mitigation approaches for greenhouse gases and air pollutants
Theme 5: Understanding and quantifying transportation sector emissions in Canada
 
To be eligible for funding under this request for proposals, lead applicants must be one of the following:
- universities and other academic institutions;
- not-for-profit non-government organizations (NGO, e.g., environmental community groups); or
- Indigenous organizations
 
This request for proposals will provide up to $6 million per project over a maximum of five years.
 
For more information, see this link and consult the attached Applicant Guide.
 
Application process
There is a two-step application process, consisting of a letter of intent phase open to all eligible applicants, followed by an invitation-only full proposal phase. 
 
UPEI application process for submission and approval of the letter of intent (LOI):
1) Prepare your LOI using the attached form
- Please note that indirect costs must be included in the budget at an amount of 20% of the direct cost request.
2) Submit your LOI and supporting documents for UPEI approval using the Researcher Portal and selecting the "Research Funding Administrative Approvals Form for GRANT Applications (rev Dec 2020)".  
- Applicants are requested to submit by June 3rd, 2021, ensuring that the application is received by Research Services by June 7, 2021.
3) Upon receipt of UPEI approvals, you will be provided with access to the Grants and Contributions Enterprise Management System for submission of your LOI.  The deadline for submission is June 10, 2021, at 3:00 PM ET.
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