ICR Planning and Dissemination Grants

The CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grants provide support for planning and/or dissemination activities (either virtual or in-person) consistent with the mandate of CIHR and relevant to the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR).

Events/activities may focus on, but are not limited to, the following:

Planning:

• Activities that assist potential teams of researchers, knowledge-users and/or partners in working together to identify research questions or emerging issues and priorities that could form the basis of a grant application
• Stakeholder consultations, including citizen engagement activities regarding needs, gaps and opportunities in the health research landscape, priority policy issues and/or priority research questions, where such common understanding is currently lacking or requires further development
• Initial planning and discussion of a research project among potential team members, including researchers, knowledge-users and/or partners to assess the viability of the research project and the partnership
• Conducting an environmental scan or preliminary synthesis of relevant literature, activities or programs
• Early-stage planning to determine possible commercial viability of a discovery
• Opportunities for knowledge exchange involving stakeholder linkages to inform practice, care, and/or policy that could potentially lead to an application to a funding opportunity
• Gatherings of partners, health researchers, and/or knowledge-users where the main objective is to facilitate regional/national and/or international collaboration among individuals or groups from a variety of backgrounds (e.g., building new and existing multi-sectored partnerships that include a significant number of participants from outside the conventional scientific community, consensus meetings, networking and partnership development events) interested in applying to a funding opportunity

Dissemination:

• Education of groups, such as patients, health professionals, community organizations, policy makers, and the general public
• Knowledge dissemination that will inform practice, clinical care, partnership best practices, policy and decision making
• Dissemination and/or discussion of research findings at scientific meetings, workshops, conferences, congresses or symposia
• Development and dissemination of knowledge translation products and tools (e.g., written materials in various formats, plain language summaries, decision support tools, educational materials, and web sites)

There are two competitions per year, scheduled in Winter and Summer. Please consult ResearchNet regularly for the competition dates and details regarding this program.

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Contact information

Should you have any questions, please contact the CIHR Contact Centre:

Telephone: 613-954-1968
Toll Free: 1-888-603-4178
support-soutien@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

Date modified:

2024-06-12