Supporting Talent in ReSearch @ University of Padua (Italy)
University of Padua (Italy) is about to launch the third edition of the Supporting TAlent in ReSearch@University of Padua – STARS@UNIPD call for proposals. Such intramural funding Programme supports excellent 2-year research projects to be performed by outstanding Principal Investigators (PIs) of any age and nationality, choosing Padua and one its 32 Departments as their […]
Call for Proposals: Climate Education Grants
Climate Education Grants provide up to $5,000 to UBC Vancouver faculty members to incorporate climate change content and teaching approaches into existing undergraduate and graduate courses. Funds can be used for a wide range of curriculum development work, including hiring students or staff to develop new material, hosting workshop(s) to consult on course changes, developing […]
Canada’s Food Waste Reduction Challenge
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has launched the $20M Food Waste Reduction Challenge to accelerate the development and deployment of innovative solutions that can tackle food waste at any point from farm-to-plate. The challenge has four innovation Streams. The first two Streams (A and B) are now accepting applications for business models that prevent or divert […]
CAAIN Open Competition
The Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network (CAAIN) has put out a funding call for their open competition. CAAIN is a platform to pursue precision, productivity and premiums in agriculture and food within an ecosystem of companies covering complete value chains (from soil through to consumer) and a network of living laboratories (i.e., smart farms). CAAIN […]
Cascadia Innovation Corridor Virtual Forum: Sustainable Agri-foods and Agri-tech in Cascadia
The Cascadia Innovation Corridor‘s next virtual forum, Sustainable Agri-foods and Agri-tech in Cascadia, will be held on Friday, November 20th. The forum will explore COVID-19’s impact on supply chains for local producers, buyers, and our emergency food system, as well as how the growing agri-tech sector is expanding opportunities for local farmers. The session will be hosted by […]
Call for Proposals: 3M National Student Fellowship Award
The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and 3M Canada are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2021 3M National Student Fellowship Award. The 3M National Student Fellowship honours up to ten full-time diploma and undergraduate students at Canadian post-secondary institutions who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in their lives […]
Land Economics Society Research Grant
The LAI (Land Economics Society), Vancouver Chapter has put out a call for proposals for a $5,000 research grant in the field of Land Economics. ‘Land economics’ is regarded by LAI in a broad sense – including disciplines such as land development, planning, economy, land law, valuation, tax policy, housing, transportation, sustainability, resilience, environment, and […]
New Podcast Episode – Rewriting the Code of Life
Two scientists recently shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for transforming an obscure bacterial immune mechanism, called CRISPR, into “genetic scissors” – an editing tool for re-writing the code of life. The two female Nobel Prize winners accomplished this through collaboration – which is exactly how two Canadian scientists – also women – are working […]
Health Canada’s 2020 Virtual Stakeholder Meeting on Health Products
You’re invited to Health Canada’s 2020 Virtual Stakeholder Meeting on Health Products December 4, 2020, from 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM (EST) In the face of this challenging pandemic, we invite you to join us for a discussion on Health Canada’s current regulatory response to COVID-19. Health Canada leaders will share their perspectives […]
2021 France Canada Research Fund (FCRF) New Scientific Collaboration Support Program (Internal deadline November 13th)
The FCRF aims to support developing new expert partnerships between France and Canada by promoting researcher mobility. The 2021 FCRF guidelines and application form can be downloaded here: https://francecanadaculture.org/launch-of-the-2021-call-for-proposals-of-the-france-canada-research-fund/ UBC Internal Selection: The FCRF requires that all universities pre-select a maximum of 5 proposals. To be considered for UBC’s internal selection, researchers must email […]