Apply for Align Grant Program (Canada)

This is an open call. Applications may address any area of human health.

 Objectives

• Increase research relevance, coordination, and potential for impact by:
  • Enabling development and engagement of robust interdisciplinary research teams, including stakeholders outside academia; ​
  • Providing funding to complete activities that shape research to align with the Saskatchewan context and respond to Saskatchewan needs.
    • Stakeholders include communities, people with lived experience, families, caregivers, decision makers, health practitioners, health care administrators, educators, policy makers, patient groups, community-based organizations, industry, health charities, etc.
• Increase quality and success of Saskatchewan applications to peer-reviewed funding competitions at the regional (e.g.; western Canadian- minimum two provinces), national and international level, as well as to SHRF; and
• Support the development of Saskatchewan research and health professional trainees through opportunities to gain experience in collaborative team building and engagement outside academia, co-development of research questions and approaches, and other research and professional  skills related to proposed activities.

Funding Information

• Amount Up to $10,000
• Values requested must be reflective of a justified and fiscally responsible budget and in balance with the expected deliverables and outcomes of the proposed activities.
• The grant provided is for up to one year (12 months).

Eligibility Criteria

• Principal Applicant Requirements
  • To be eligible, the Principal Applicant must:
    • Be self-directed and autonomous regarding their research activities (i.e. not a trainee or contracted employee);
    • Be able to hold peer-reviewed funds as a Principal Applicant and publish research results;
    • Be affiliated with a Saskatchewan institution, which has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with SHRF and agrees to administer the funds as the host institution;
    • Be obliged to conform to institutional regulations concerning the conduct of research, supervision of trainees (undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate, as applicable) and the employment conditions of staff paid with SHRF funding; and
    • Reside and work in Saskatchewan during the funding period of the grant.
• Team Requirements
  • At least one Saskatchewan-based trainee must be named either as personnel or as a co-applicant and their roles and responsibilities adequately described.
  • As this grant is available to assist in connecting with stakeholders outside academia, it is not required that teams include knowledge-users.
  • For this funding opportunity, there are no Contribution Forms or additional documents that will need to be shared from Applicants or Personnel invited to this application. Supporters must provide a letter of support.

For more information, visit SHRF.