the primary purpose is to fund early career researchers to a one-year grant to explore collaborative opportunities with their indian counterparts. the funds are related to developing solutions to our pressing problems of food insecurity. both research (stream 1) and demonstration projects (stream 2) will be funded.

please contact jill sherman, international research facilitator, at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca if this program is of interest.

the fellowship specifically funds research designed to enhance the resilience of canada’s health systems. fellowship recipients will be eligible to receive $450,000 in funding over the course of three years. the hrf and its fellowship selection committee invite researchers from recognized academic institutions across canada to submit their applications by october 4, 2021.

the specific objective of this funding opportunity is to generate and share knowledge that will achieve one or more of the following:

• improve understanding of barriers to and opportunities for positive physical, social, and mental health outcomes for lgbtqia/2s individuals, families and communities whose health is impacted by the intersections of their sexual orientation, gender, race/ethnicity, experiences of racism, and/or additional intersecting social identities, positions and processes, including but not limited to ableism, age, classism, disability, faith, heterosexism, homophobia, immigrant and/or refugee status, indigeneity, language, transphobia and xenophobia.
• inform the implementation and/or sustainability and scale-up of new or existing community-based interventions to improve health and wellness for lgbtqia/2s communities from an intersectional perspective.
• evaluate the reach, effectiveness, and benefits of community-based interventions to improve health and wellness for lgbtqia/2s communities from an intersectional perspective.

budget 2021 proposed $319 million over seven years for innovation in carbon capture utilization and storage (ccus). these funds will bring together businesses, academia, non-profits, industry, government, and federal laboratories on the path to net-zero emissions by 2050.

this is the first call for ccus project proposals by the office of energy research and development (oerd) with a focus on front-end engineering design studies. future calls will be announced on the oerd energy innovation program web page.

1.1 call overview: front end engineering and design (feed) studies

although ccus technologies have been deployed and demonstrated at large scale at various sites in canada - such as the quest and boundary dam projects - the application of ccus across industry remains nascent, with a limited number of commercial scale facilities in operation globally. to ensure that ccus technologies have an opportunity to be deployed broadly in industries that have limited options to decarbonize by 2050, more facilities need to be demonstrated at scale.

a critical and costly step in this process is completing a feed study. performing a feed study helps reduce the technical and commercial risk of a project to the point where an investment decision can be made to proceed with construction. it also provides an opportunity to evaluate and benchmark near commercial technologies helping them to come to market

guggenheim fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.

fellowships are awarded through an annual competition open to citizens and permanent residents of the united states and canada. candidates must apply to the guggenheim foundation in order to be considered.

the foundation receives approximately 3,000 applications each year. although no one who applies is guaranteed success in the competition, there is no prescreening: all applications are reviewed. approximately 175 fellowships are awarded each year.

the seventh round of open research area (ora) for the social sciences is based on an agreement among the anr, france; the deutsche forschungsgemeinschaft (dfg), germany; the economic and social research council of uk research and innovation (esrc), uk; and the social sciences and humanities research council (sshrc), canada.

with the goals of funding high-quality research within their own countries and strengthening international co-operation by working with some of the best researchers internationally, anr, dfg, esrc and sshrc are launching a seventh ora call for proposals in order to fund the best joint research projects. the scheme will provide funding for integrated projects by researchers coming from at least three of the four subscribing countries.

proposals may involve any of the disciplines, thematic areas or approaches eligible for sshrc funding. however, the disciplinary coverage varies according to the involvement of the national agencies. applicants who are uncertain of whether their proposal would be eligible should contact the relevant national agencies for clarification.

there is also a special opportunity for co-operation with projects in japan. with the aim of strengthening co-operation between researchers in japan and ora partners, the japan society for the promotion of science (jsps), as the national funding organization of japan, offers a funding scheme to support projects associated with ora. for details on the japanese call, please visit the jpsp’s website.

ora 7 will have a new format as compared to earlier ora funding opportunities. this competition will follow a one-stage, one-application process consisting of a full proposal with a deadline date of november 17, 2021.

national funding agencies will fund proposals according to their respective policies and regulations and the affiliation of the researchers. canadian teams participating in successful ora 7 international projects will be funded by sshrc based on the funding request outlined in the sshrc national financial form.