European Research Commission (ERC) - the ERC has opened the 2022 call for applications to the Advanced Grants program, for senior researchers in any field of research with a track record of at least 10 years.  To be eligible, researchers must spend at least 50% of their time at an eligible EU host institution.  Grants are for individual PIs, but can be used to support research team members in any country.  ERC grants can be made up to €2.5 million for up to 5 years (prorated for shorter projects).  Funding can cover up to 100% of direct costs, plus 25% of the total contribution toward indirect costs. The application deadline is April 28, 2022. 

•  Please contact Jill Sherman, International Research Facilitator, if this opportunity is of interest at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca

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 call for applications to the 2022-23 SICS program is now open.  The program, sponsored by Global Affairs Canada, provides scholarships to students in the following countries: 

• Asia: Bangladesh, Nepal, Taiwan;

• Europe: Turkey, Ukraine;

• Middle East and North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia;

• Sub-Saharan Africa: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda

Scholarships are for short-term study or research stays at universities in Canada.  Undergraduates can choose to study (take classes) for one semester, if their home institution has an MOU or student exchange agreement with Lakehead, or can otherwise demonstrate an existing collaboration.  Students, mainly graduate students, can also apply to come to Lakehead for a RESEARCH stay of 4-6 months (an MOU or exchange agreement is recommended but not mandatory).  The scholarship ranges from CAD 10,200 for one semester to CAD 12,700 for graduate student research stays of 5-6 months (tuition is waived).  Students wishing to apply as RESEARCH students are required to find a host supervisor and may contact you.  

If you have research collaborators in one of the eligible countries, this is an excellent opportunity to host a visiting student.

Please contact Jill Sherman, intl.research@lakeheadu for questions related to RESEARCH students.  The Lakehead International Relations team manages the program and applies on behalf of the student, contact Laura Pudas at international.relations@lakeheadu.ca.

The internal deadline for applications is Friday, March 11.

The Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CNSC) is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the Northern Research Fund (NRF) for 2022. The NRF provides support for research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities in the Churchill area. At the CNSC, the NRF is used to help meet the financial needs of professionals using the centre's facilities and services. It is a matching funds program, meaning the award takes the form of matching user- and vehicle-days for successful applicants to offset the cost of accommodation at the CNSC and research in the north. Researchers from all disciplines are encouraged to apply, as the CNSC continues to support a diverse range of projects. Major research conducted at the CNSC has included the fields of auroral research, climate change, climatology, greenhouse gas emissions, inland water quality, marine ecosystems, northern ecology, peatland and treeline dynamics, snowpack dynamics, and wildlife management.

There are a few weeks left (deadline: February 15) to apply for our Research Cooperation in the Canadian Francophonie Program, which funds biprovincial research collaborations of French speaking professors, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students.

• Projects can start in the summer of 2022, must take place mainly in French, and the application file takes very little time to prepare.

Researchers can submit their application in this program :

• To be a visiting researcher in another province or territory of Canada
• The following are eligible to be visiting researchers: graduate students, professors, postdoctoral fellows and research professionals working at a university in Quebec, Ontario or New Brunswick
• Or to host a visiting researcher in their province or territory in Canada
• The following are eligible to host a visiting researcher: professors working at a Canadian university, research chairs and groups, and French-language or bilingual scholarly journals in Canada. The visiting researcher that you are inviting must be from Quebec, Ontario or New Brunswick.

The length of the stay is flexible: for example, you can start a collaboration in another province, then continue it remotely, or vice versa. Projects can start (on-site or remotely) from June 2022. The collaboration must be between researchers from two different provinces (your trip cannot take place in your own province).

The program provides up to three years of funding, of a value of maximum 5 000$ each year, to cover the travel and subsistence expenses of the visiting researcher.

For more information :

• List of projects funded last year
• The program’s website

This program offers you support to receive a guest researcher (student, professional or professor) from Quebec, Ontario or New Brunswick in your province or territory, with the help of mobility and living grants, to carry out research collaboration. 

Research teams from all provinces and territories can be hosts (host environment), and researchers from New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec can be guest researchers -es. 

One of the two parties involved in the collaboration must submit an application for the program, whether it is the guest researcher or the host institution.

The objective of the program is to encourage pan-Canadian research collaboration.

DEADLINE FOR THE CURRENT CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: February 1, 2022 for Visiting Scholars from Ontario, and  February 15, 2022 for Visiting Scholars from Quebec and New Brunswick and for all the hosts (host environments). Your project must start  between June 1, 2022 and October 1, 2022.