General Interest

The application form will require all applicants to:  

1. Summarise the work you plan to carry out during the Fellowship, and how the collaboration will benefit the project. Explain why you have chosen to collaborate with your partner institution for the project rather than any other. 
2. Describe the projected impact of the Fellowship work. 
3. Explain how you expect the Fellowship to benefit your own professional development. 
4. List the planned outputs of the Fellowship. 
5. Submit a time plan of the work, which must cover a minimum of six months between September 2023 and August 2024. 
6. List the costs associated with the Fellowship. These can include staff time, consumables, internet access and data, equipment, research data management, travel costs, impact and engagement and open access. 
7. Submit a letter or email of support from your head of department at your home institution. 
8. Submit a letter or email of support from the collaborator at your partner institution. 

• Hold a PhD (or equivalent).
• Be employed at an institution of higher education or research and be within the first five years of starting a full-time research position that includes responsibility for both conducting an independent research program and supervising/teaching trainees toward their completion of a degree.
• Typically, you are an Assistant Professor (or the equivalent in other academic systems).
• Your position must be secure for the duration of the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar active term (to March 31, 2026).
• Your start date in this position must be no earlier than July 1, 2019. Note that special consideration may be given to those who have taken parental leave or have exceptional circumstances.
• Engage in research that complements the themes and goals of a recruiting CIFAR research program
• Demonstrate an outstanding level of research achievement and promise of future impact in your field, as evidenced by the quality of your publications, awards received, and statements by referees.
• Be interested in engaging across disciplines, as well as sectors beyond academia, to enrich and extend the impact of your research.
• Be available to attend a virtual interview March 22-24, 2024.
• Have a valid passport, and if required, be able to obtain travel visas to attend CIFAR meetings around the world (2-3 times per year).
• Be fluent in spoken and written English.

Applications must be submitted online, using the application form provided at: cifar.ca/global-scholars. Instructions for starting an application are available here.

As an applicant, you are required to submit the following information:

a) Summary Section

1. A summary of the value you anticipate from the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar experience, aside from the financial benefits. (400 words maximum)

2. A brief statement about three areas of leadership and/or communications skills that you would like to strengthen through your participation in the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program. (100 words maximum)

3. A brief statement about how your skills and knowledge will contribute to advancing CIFAR’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. (250 words maximum)

4. A short description of your research interests using lay terms for a general audience and public use. (100 words maximum)

b) Detailed Section

1. A detailed discussion of your research background and proposed future directions, how this agenda would contribute to the themes and goals of the CIFAR research program to which you are applying, and how participating in the program would advance your research. Propose areas of potential research interaction and collaboration with Fellows and Advisors of the program. (1000 words maximum)

2. A discussion of how you have engaged with non-academic communities to extend the impact of your research. If you have not been active outside of academia, discuss the type of activities you would like to pursue. In your response, please identify expert communities (e.g., policy makers, industry, educators, social workers, etc.) who are most relevant to your academic work. (1000 words maximum)

3. An up-to-date CV, including publication list, uploaded as a .pdf document. Files must include the .pdf extension as part of the file name.

In addition:

1. You must arrange to have two letters of recommendation submitted to your online application. Note: Some applicants will require a third letter. For details, please read the section on Letters of Reference.

2. If you have a pending first full-time eligible position starting no later than July 1, 2024, you must upload a copy of your appointment letter to your application.

Each nomination is to be completed online using the Nomination Form, and shall include:

  a. a cover letter from the primary nominator;

   b. a citation (maximum 70 words)

   c. a detailed appraisal (maximum 1200 words)

   d. a candidate's statement (maximum 500 words)

   e. two letters of reference (maximum 750 words each)

   f. a brief biography of each referee (maximum 250 words)

   g. a CV (in any format, maximum 10 pages)

• Individual Award: Individual scientist or small teams of collaborating scientists can be nominated. The laureate will be awarded €200,000.
• Institutional Award: Governmental and non-governmental organizations, institutions, or other entities can apply or be nominated. The award-winning organization or institution will receive €200,000. If governmental organizations or institutions are the recipients of the award, they will not receive any funds in addition to the award itself.
• Early Career Award: Early career researchers can submit a project proposal for an award of €100,000.

To nominate or apply for this award, nominators and applicants may access the nomination/application platform where they can provide all the necessary information.

Candidates can come from any discipline or nationality. Candidates must have received their doctoral degree within the past 18 years – exceptions to this rule may be made where justified e.g., In the case of career breaks to raise children

1. The nominee must be recognized internationally as an outstanding researcher in his/her field (e.g. awards, positive responses to publications, etc.).

2. Expectation that the nominee will continue to produce cutting-edge achievements, which will have a seminal influence on the discipline.

3. Doctorate completed less than 18 years ago.

4. Detailed expert opinion by an academic working at a research institution in Germany who would like to invite the nominee to spend time researching in Germany.

5. Two expert reviews by important international and one from German collaborative partners and/or academics.

6. The Humboldt Foundation assumes that candidates will abide by the Rules of Good Scientific Practice during the application and sponsorship periods.

Nominees must be living Canadian citizens or permanent residents. Posthumous nominations are not eligible. Nominees may be from any sector of activity – the arts, sciences, business, not-for-profit or community-based, for example. Nominees can be at any stage in their life or career. The aim is to have at least one young innovator among the winners who is 30 years of age or younger and who, individually or as leader of a team and/or organization, has been undertaking exceptional, transformative and innovative activities.

The innovations for which nominees are proposed must be demonstrably having an active impact in the economy or society.

For these awards, innovation is understood as addressing a pressing problem with a solution that is based on new thinking, and putting that solution into action. Innovations must have already demonstrated significant impact on the quality of life in Canada.

Selection criteria for nominees: 

• Inspiration – extent to which knowledge, technology, approaches or methods have been deployed in the process of innovation
• Leadership – evidence of initiative, collaboration, risk-taking and problem-solving in the process of developing and implementing innovation
• Impact – impact the innovation is having because of its successful implementation in the sector, economy, society or culture.

The nomination consists of:

• Summary: A short description of the nature, significance and impact of the innovation or innovative activities (max 500 characters)
• Inspiration: How does the process leading to this innovation, its implementation and its developer(s) inspire future innovators in Canada (max 2000 characters)?
• Leadership: How did the innovator(s) demonstrate leadership in their work? Discuss evidence of initiative, collaboration, risk-taking and problem-solving in the process of developing and implementing the innovation (max 2000 characters)
• Impact: Describe the successful implementation of the innovation in the sector, economy, society or culture, and the role of the nominee(s) in that implementation. Please include evidence and indicators of impact (max 2000 characters).

Internal - September 27; Sponsor - September 29 – call determined by partner agencies (quick turn-around time)

Please send all eligible projects to Waterloo Awards by the internal deadline noted above as all nominations are to be submitted by the institution.

https://innovation.gg.ca/

The top 3 finalists will be profiled in early September in Profound Impact’s newsletter. The award winner will be recognized on Profound Impact Day and a donation to their charity of choice will be made by Profound Impact Corporation.

To meet the judging criteria for the Impactful Actions Award, the Nominee must:

1. Significantly contribute to the area(s) of leadership, mentoring, gender equality and inclusiveness, academic excellence, or research;
2. Be a living person over the age of 18 years old;
3. Have achieved professional recognition in their field of study or expertise;
4. Exemplify the core values of open collaboration and positive impact;
5. Demonstrate innovative ideas or actions for solving challenging problems with the scalable potential for global impact.

The Nominator must contact the Nominee(s) to inform them of their Nomination. Nominee(s) has the right to decline to be nominated, in which case, no nomination should be submitted. Self-nominations are accepted for this award. The nomination submission must be completed using the online nomination form

Amounts vary year-to-year. Minimum of six months and a maximum of twelve months funding.

Canadian citizen or permanent resident. No second fellowships are granted.

September 23, 2023 – competition typically opens in Mid-August

The program operates on a co-PI model where the Fellow and the NRC researcher collaborate to deliver a specific project for a period of time (usually one year).

The NKPO cordially invites you to participate in an information session to learn more about the new fellowship opportunity. The sessions will take place on the following dates:

• English session: March 07, 2024, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET on Teams
• French session: March 14, 2024, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET on Teams

To attend, RSVP to KillamProgram-ProgrammeKillam@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca indicating your full name, the session you would like to attend, and any accessibility requirements. They also welcome you to share your questions in advance of the session so that the session can be customized to your needs.

provides a total of $100,000 over one year to a faculty member or a team of faculty members nominated by an eligible institution, to fund the implementation of bold and potentially game-changing projects led by the nominated individual or team 

Institutional eligibility

To be eligible to submit a nomination, the nominating institution must:

• have a current allocation of chairs from the CRCP;
• be meeting its December 2019 equity targets for the program; and
• for institutions with five or more chairs allocated, have a CRCP EDI action plan that is in good standing.

Faculty eligibility

To be eligible for nomination, the faculty member(s) must:

• be eligible to receive grant funding from the agencies;
• be holding a full-time academic appointment at the institution at the time of nomination and for the duration of the award; and
• be in good standing with CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC (e.g., they cannot have eligibility limits placed on them due to not meeting grant reporting requirements for the CRCP or have sanctions in place tied to the agencies’ responsible conduct of research policy).

Current and former Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) are eligible, as are individuals who are not CRCs. Institutional administrators who are eligible to hold grant funding from the agencies are also eligible to be nominated.

The CRCP is an institutional program and does not accept applications from or fund researchers directly. A senior manager responsible for the administration of the CRCP at the institution, at the vice-president level, must submit the nomination.

Needs an internal competition as only one nomination can be submitted – advertise in April with internal competition in early May (see process from last year)

https://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/program-programme/equity-equite/Robbins-Ollivier/competition_2022-eng.aspx