BWF's Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI) provide $560,000 over five years to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service. These awards are open to U.S. and Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and temporary residents.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund launched the Career Awards at the Scientific Interface in 1999 to foster the early career development of researchers who are transitioning from training environments in the physical, mathematical, computational sciences and/or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences, and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research.

For more information, please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

The Fulbright Canada Short-Term Entrepreneurship Award is designed for professionals, students, and scholars whose aim is to bring their ideas and expertise to market. Part of the Fulbright Canada Entrepreneurship Initiative (FCEI), this award supports short-term projects at host institutions in the United States, providing the necessary resources to transform innovative and impactful ideas into successful entrepreneurial ventures.

The Fulbright Canada Short-Term Entrepreneurship Award aims to equip experienced individuals with the tools and knowledge necessary to succeed in entrepreneurial endeavours that foster positive social and economic change. 

This award provides a unique opportunity to gain valuable insights into the entrepreneurial process, build lasting collaborative relationships, and connect with the global Fulbright network.

For more information, please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca

The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports research projects proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers, at any career stage, 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.

• Worker exposure at indoor illicit drug inhalation and overdose prevention sites

• Impact of fuel selection during live fire training on firefighter exposures to carcinogens

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Enable researchers to generate preliminary data or evidence necessary to demonstrate feasibility of new and innovative technologies for testing and monitoring of outbreaks and next-generation interventions;
• Support researchers in pursuing high-risk, high-reward research questions which have the potential to generate novel, innovative and high impact results to address persistent challenges in HIV/AIDS and STBBI for key populations in Canada and globally; and
• Stimulate innovation in HIV/AIDS and STBBI research by promoting cross-disciplinary research collaborations.

Connection Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Research Partnerships program.

These grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and engage with participants on research issues they value. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant can often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.

Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes or other events or outreach activities that facilitate:

• disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the social sciences and humanities;
• scholarly exchanges between those working in the social sciences and humanities and those working in other research fields;
• intersectoral exchanges between academic researchers in the social sciences and humanities and researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors; and/or
• international research collaboration and scholarly exchanges with researchers, students and non-academic partners from other countries.