Network Catalyst Grant – Full Application
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with Unit
Memorial Deadline: Thursday 1st, August 2019
External Deadline: Tuesday 6th, August 2019
Description
BY INVITATION ONLY
This funding opportunity will provide support for the creation of six networks. The aim of these networks will be to provide research leadership in its focus area, to foster innovative research and practices, to build capacity and provide a forum that engages the research community and its partners (including but not limited to industry, charities, and patients and their carers). This opportunity will provide funding for networks in the priority research areas of the funding partners. For CIHR-IMHA and MDC, these areas include Musculoskeletal (MSK) Rehabilitation, Muscular Dystrophy and Skin Health. For CIHR-INMHA, these networks seek to catalyze new research areas within the Institute’s mandate.
While the distinct research communities in Canada served by this funding opportunity are each fairly large, an organized approach will enable each community to build capacity, share resources, and seek out international collaboration in a productive and beneficial way. A network will bring researchers together and enable work in this field to progress more efficiently. The success of the network will be defined by the ability of each community to build capacity and to further research through the sharing of resources and developing national and international collaborations.
Objectives
This funding opportunity is expected to:
Support the creation and/or further development of formal networks by encouraging national and international collaboration, resource sharing, capacity building and dissemination in priority research areas;
Identify and establish novel connections across Canada. This will bring together a collaborative multidisciplinary group of technical and scientific experts;
Develop and strengthen research capacity by connecting and engaging current researchers and training the next generation of researchers;
Develop and provide health research leadership across Canada, linking to related international initiatives (as appropriate);
Facilitate translation of new knowledge generated by research evidence; and
Ensure patient engagement to increase the outcomes and health impacts for Canadians.
For additional information see Research Net