Project Grant Program

• September 22, 2020 – Doubling of leave credits for early career researchers applying to Project Grant competition
• September 18, 2020 – Project Grant: Fall 2020 Q&A
• September 15, 2020 – Project Grant: Spring 2020 results
• September 2, 2020 – Supporting early career researchers affected by COVID-19: Temporarily “pausing the clock” for ECRs
• August 26, 2020 – What is a Notice of Recommendation?
• August 26, 2020 – Fall 2020 Project Grant: Ask Me Anything (Webinars)
• August 25, 2020 – Opportunity for Early Career Researchers: Call for expressions of interest to the Fall 2020 Observer Program
• August 11, 2020 – Fall 2020 Project Funding opportunity
• August 11, 2020 – Project Fall 2020 Priority Announcements
• August 11, 2020 – Update on peer review for the Spring 2020 Project Grant competition

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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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• Notice of Recommendation for the Spring 2020 Project Grant competition: September 1, 2020
• Notice of Decision for the Spring 2020 Project Grant competition: September 15, 2020
• Notice of Decision for the Spring 2020 Priority Announcements: September 22, 2020
• Funding Start date for the Spring 2020 Project Grant competition and the Priority announcements: October 1, 2020
• Registration deadline for the Fall 2020 Project Grant Competition: September 16, 2020
• Application deadline for the Fall 2020 Project Grant Competition:  October 15, 2020
• Release of Notice of Recommendation for the Fall 2020 Project Grant Competition: February 16, 2021
• Notice of Decision for the Fall 2020 Project Grant Competition: March 3, 2021
• Funding Start date for the Fall 2020 Project Grant Competition: April 1, 2021

Spring 2021 timelines will be adjusted.

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