CIHR – CCV Updates

Please note that effective June 29, 2015, the following changes to the Canadian Common CV (CCV) have been implemented:

Record selection management capability
Users who submit a Canadian Common CV to different organizations or to different competitions within the same organization are now able to manage their record selection for each individual Funding CV template. This enhancement allows users to:

• Create, edit and save versions of each Funding CV template, each with its own customized record selection. This feature is particularly useful to users who need to submit the same type of Funding CV to multiple competitions;
  
• Preserve the record selection made in each individual Funding CV template version;
• View the number of records selected for submission while updating the record selection in each section of CV template versions.

Please note that when loading a template for the first time after June 29, 2015, or when creating a new template version, the record selection will be based on the Generic CV. Any changes in record selection thereafter will be version specific and will not impact any other templates or versions in the CCV. It is important to note that modifications to the CCV dataset (e.g. creating or deleting records, entering or deleting data in individual fields) will still be reflected across all templates and versions created by a user.

Re-organization of Student/Postdoctoral Supervision records
To enhance the clarity of the Student/Postdoctoral Supervision section in the PDF output of the CCV, all records are now grouped based on the Study Level, followed by descending chronological order.

Healthy and Productive Work – SSHRC/CIHR Initiative

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) are pleased to announce a joint initiative: Healthy and Productive Work, aimed at driving innovative, evidence-informed solutions to work and labour market challenges to improve the health and productivity of Canada’s diverse workforce. This summer, SSHRC and CIHR will launch the first phase of a two-phase Call for Applications under Healthy and Productive Work.

Further details can be found at the following link: http://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/49213.html

For more information, please contact us at partnershipgrants@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca or spw-spt@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

The process through which funding will be allocated will have two phases:
Phase 1 – Incubator Phase (Summer 2015 launch)
The purpose of Phase 1 will be to support planning and development work for teams of researchers and partners (e.g. industry, employers, workers, regulators, service providers, policy makers and other stakeholders) for the purpose of relationship building, knowledge sharing, and collaborative problem/research question identification. Two-year Partnership Development Grants will enable these types of activities and assist teams to prepare for Phase 2. Note that applications at the Partnership Development Grant stage must have a researcher / partner collaboration in place.

Phase 2 – Accelerator Phase (anticipated launch fall 2017)
Only successful applicants funded through Phase 1 will be eligible to apply for Phase 2.
Phase 2 will have as its centerpiece a Partnership Grant with a co-leadership model that involves researchers and partners (e.g. industry, employers, workers, regulators, service providers, policy makers and other stakeholders). Only successful applicants from Phase 1 will be eligible to apply for funding in Phase 2. Applicants will be expected to show that the planned program of research will have a significant impact on enabling the health and productivity of Canada’s diverse workforce.

More Information: The Healthy and Productive Work Call for Applications will be posted on the CIHR and SSHRC websites summer 2015. Webinar sessions will be organized to communicate details of the Initiative.

Facilitating Linkages
Funded partnerships must enable reciprocal flow and uptake of research knowledge between researchers and stakeholders – both within and beyond academia – by integrating stakeholders throughout the entire research process. Researchers and stakeholders will collaborate to develop the research questions, decide on methodology, collect data, interpret the findings, and disseminate the research results. This collaboration should increase the likelihood of adoption and uptake of research results.

To express your interest in collaborating, please access the online partner linkage tool. The information collected through this tool will be posted in a sortable table and updated on a weekly basis. The table can be accessed by interested parties only through the Results of the Partner Linkage Tool. The unedited information provided is only accessible via the link and will not be searchable through the Internet. This is not the only mechanism through which researcher-partner linkages can be facilitated; it is simply a tool initiated by CIHR and SSHRC to help connect interested parties.

Searching for Funding? Try PIVOT

Western’s subscription to PIVOT has been renewed, and is available to the full Western research community as a resource for finding research funding opportunities for faculty and students.

PIVOT can be accessed from any computer on campus. If you wish to use PIVOT off campus, please register for access at:  http://pivot.cos.com/about under the “sign up” option.

Please let Karen Kueneman, kueneman@uwo.ca, know if you do apply to certain funding sources because you found it on Pivot as Research Western is monitoring the benefits of paying for this resource.

Pivot is a tool that:

• Provides access to the most comprehensive source of funding opportunities globally
• Sends weekly updates on saved searches
• Create groups for sharing funding opportunities on an ongoing basis

With a personalized experience through your own profile, Pivot pinpoints funding opportunities with searches that are:

• Accurate: Updated daily to add new information drawn from sources linked to profiles in publications from vetted sources and web content associated with a scholar’s profile, and to drop out expired opportunities.
• Automated: Users can receive alerts whenever new matching opportunities are posted that match their saved searches.
• Focused: Search just one database for funding in any discipline and country, rather than multiple sources or scattershot across the internet.