Funding, News and Announcements

The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) plans to re-launch its Global Call for New Ideas in late autumn 2017.

It will invite the global research community to submit proposals for new programs that address complex, fundamental questions of importance to the world. Ideas must be novel, bold and potentially transformative to warrant the creation of a long-term, multi-disciplinary and collaborative research program. Proposals will be accepted from all areas of research.

The proposed timeline is:
• Call for Letters of Intent opens: November 15, 2017
• LOI deadline: End of January 2018
• Announcement of short-listed proposals: March 2018
• Final proposal deadline: October 2018
• Announcement of competition results: Spring 2019

CIFAR’s announcement can be found online here.

A further announcement will be made when the LOI call opens and guidelines become available. Meantime, interested researchers are invited to register their interest by contacting the International Research Facilitator (jennifer.morawiecki@dal.ca).