CIHR Project Grant Spring 2024

Please see CIHR's Update to the Spring 2024 Project Grant Competition. Please see key information regarding attachments that will no longer be accepted as part of the application package. Additionally, CIHR has confirmed they will be more stringent in their format review and compliance requirements. Faculty should ensure all applications are formatted according to CIHR's guidelines.

For additional information, please visit the CIHR Project Grant website for:

• Program guidelines
• Application forms
• Full application instructions
• Evaluation criteria

Webinar: CIHR will be hosting webinar(s) to support participants with the requirements of this funding opportunity and to answer questions. To find out more information and to register, visit the Webinars page.

Description

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 or programs 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.

Research Areas

The Project Grant program is open to applicants in all areas of health research that are aligned with the CIHR mandate: "To excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system."

The Project Grant program is expected to:

• Support a diverse portfolio of health-related research and knowledge translation proposals at any stage, from discovery to application, including commercialization
• Promote relevant collaborations across disciplines, professions and sectors
• Contribute to the creation and use of health-related knowledge.

Priority Announcements (PAs) offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific research areas. Refer to the Project Grant: Spring 2024 Priority Announcement.

Eligibility

For an application to be eligible, all the requirements stated below must be met:

1. The Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) must be one of the following:
   1. an independent researcher or a knowledge user affiliated with a Canadian postsecondary institution and/or its affiliated institutions (including hospitals, research institutes and other non-profit organizations with a mandate for health research and/or knowledge translation) at the time of funding. If the Nominated Principal Applicant is a knowledge user, there must be at least one Principal Applicant who is an independent researcher OR
   2. an individual affiliated with an Indigenous non-governmental organization in Canada with a research and/or knowledge translation mandate.OR
   3. an Indigenous non-governmental organization in Canada with a research and/or knowledge translation mandate.
   1. independent researchers
   2. knowledge users
   3. trainees
   4. other.

   Note: Inclusion within the ECR cohort is based on the ECR eligibility status of the Nominated Principal Applicant, at the application deadline.

   Funding Availability

   The total amount available for the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 Project Grant Competitions is $650M.

   Maximum Project Value

   Within the investment allocated to each Project Grant competition, there will be a funding envelope of:

   • $16.25M dedicated to large grants. Large grants are defined as those within the top 2% largest total grant amount requested by all applicants within the competition and varies with each competition. This budget envelope is not intended for series of projects to be bundled together for long-term support. Individual grant applications requesting a total of more than the total dedicated amount for the competition will be withdrawn.
   • $14.95M (4.6%) dedicated to supporting applications with an Indigenous health research focus.
   • a portion of the competition budget will also be reserved to ensure that the proportion of grants funded is at least equal to the proportion of applications submitted by early career researchers (ECRs), female applicants and for applicants submitting applications written in French. Should the full amount set aside not be required, all remaining funds will be returned to the Project grant competition to further increase the number of grants funded.

   Indirect Costs

   Deadlines

   If College-level review is required, your College will communicate its earlier internal deadlines.