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The program provides emerging research leaders worldwide an opportunity to accelerate their career through networking, research support, skill development and opportunities for impact.

As an applicant, your research is expected to complement the themes and goals of a recruiting CIFAR research program. If you wish to apply to more than one program, you must complete a separate application for each program.

The programs accepting applications this year will be:
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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.

Your professor position must be secure for the duration of the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar active term.

Your start date in this position must be no earlier than July 1, 2020.

Special consideration may be given to those who have taken parental leave or have exceptional circumstances.

Be available to attend a virtual interview between March 20-21, 2024.

Have a valid passport, and if required, be able to obtain travel visas to attend CIFAR meetings around the world.

Be fluent in spoken and written English.

Administered by Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, one award per topic is awarded:

• Cognitive Science (multidisciplinary contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the mechanisms and processes that underpin the cognitive functions of humans and animals)

• History (important contribution to our knowledge and understanding and as encouragement for further scholarly pursuit)

• Environmental Science (natural sciences, technical sciences or behavioral and social sciences leading to outstanding achievement in the environmental sciences)

• Medicine (advances in medical treatment)

• Biophysics (including microbiology and the physiology of seed germination)

• 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.

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.

The objectives of the Governor General’s Innovation Awards are to celebrate excellence in innovation across all sectors of Canadian society and inspire Canadians, particularly Canadian youth, to be entrepreneurial innovators. The Awards are given to individuals, teams and/or organizations whose innovations are Truly exceptional; Transformative; and, Positive in their impact on quality of life in Canada.

As Nominating partner, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is accepting recommendations of outstanding innovators or innovations from ��ݮ��Ƶ. Those chosen by the Federation will have their nominations submitted to the primary sponsor for consideration.

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.

* If you would like to be nominated for this award please contact the Awards Team by August 8, 2025. If interest is high, an internal adjudication committee will decide which applicant will move forward and we will be requesting a copy of your CV and a 200-word description of the nature, significance and impact of the innovation or innovative activities. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

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.

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 objectives of the annual Robbins-Ollivier equity award are to:

• fund��bold and potentially game-changing��projects that will challenge the status quo, spark change and take action to address persistent systemic barriers in the research ecosystem and academia;
• recognize faculty members who contribute their time, expertise and lived experience to help address inequities in their institution, the research ecosystem and academia; and
• provide opportunities for students and trainees to contribute to this important work.

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��;
• be meeting its December��2019 equity targets for the program; and
• for institutions with five or more chairs allocated, have a��.

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.