Project Grant Program

• July 8, 2020 – Summary of June 2 and June 4 2020 CIHR “Ask Me Anything” webinars
• June 22, 25 & 29 – 2020 Project Grant Competitions: Ask Me Anything
• June 8, 2020 – Update on the Spring 2020 Project Grant competition: Important information for Spring 2020 Project Grant applicants
• June 2 & 4, 2020 – Spring 2020 Project Grant Competition: Ask Me Anything
• May 28, 2020 – Message from the President: Update on the Spring 2020 Project Grant competition
• May 1, 2020 – Message from the President: Planning for the Fall Project Grant Competition
• April 2, 2020 – Cancelling the Spring 2020 Project Grant competition: A message from CIHR President Dr. Michael Strong
• January 29, 2020 – Project Grant: Fall 2019 results

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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 projects or teams/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.

COVID-19 Research

• Project competition FAQs

Project grants are designed to support researchers at any career stage to build and conduct health-related research and knowledge translation projects across CIHR's mandate. An individual cannot submit more than two Project Grant applications per competition as a Nominated Principal Applicant. If a Nominated Principal Applicant submits more than two applications, CIHR will automatically remove the last application submitted based on time-stamp of submission.

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• Anticipated Notice of Recommendation for the Spring 2020 Project Grant competition: end of August 2020
• Anticipated Notice of Decision for the Spring 2020 Project Grant competition: mid-September 2020
• Anticipated Funding Start date for the Spring 2020 Project Grant competition: October 1, 2020
• Anticipated Registration deadline for the Fall 2020 Project Grant Competition: mid-September 2020
• Anticipated Application deadline for the Fall 2020 Project Grant Competition: mid-October 2020
• Anticipated Release of Notice of Recommendation for the Fall 2020 Project Grant Competition: February 2021
• Anticipated Notice of Decision for the Fall 2020 Project Grant Competition: early March 2021
• Anticipated Funding Start date for the Fall 2020 Project Grant Competition: April 1, 2021

Spring 2021 timelines will also be adjusted.

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