CIHR Foundation Webinar November 26, 2013 CIHR has given applicants who are eligible to the foundation pilot the option of extending their end date on their current open grant. If they decide to extend their end date, will this nullify their eligibility to the Pilot? Yes? if we extend end-date of current OG, can we apply to transitional OG competition? Current OG rules apply? No, you can t apply to the Transitional OG if you renew/extend your current OG (the one that makes you eligible for the pilot), but you could submit a new (resubmission) grant to the Transitional OG competition? from Nancy Mcneil to All Participants: Are signatures required even though the application will be submitted through ResearchNet? Yes? And CIHR is looking into using e-approval process? a candidate eligible to F1 can apply to F2? Yes Also, with such a brief budget submited, can you please clarify how budget decisions will be evaluated by reviewers and CIHR? Will review budget for appropriateness, but it s not part of scientific/weighted review what will be range of budget allowed for Foundation proposals? $50K to $1.5M, based on historical data; will depend on application pressure and (appropriate) budget requests a foundation application with multiple leaders - who/which institution holds the funds?
Decision pending; want to go towards a plan in which each individual Leader will hold a portion of the funds Did you just say that everyone who is eligible to submit to Foundation Pilot 1 2014 are also eligible to apply to the Foundation Pilot 2015, regardless of the end date of their current OGs? Yes? un jeune investigateur avec une subvention MOP peut appliquer à fondation? Quelque soit la date de fin de sa subvention? New/early career investigators are those within their 1 st five years of an independent faculty position Can applicants submit only one grant to the transitional OOGP or are multiple applications permitted? Yes, multiple/unlimited applications are permitted will there be a dedicated funding pool for new investigators in Foundation scheme? Yes Est-ce qu'un chercheur peut perdre ses subventions s'il n'obtient pas Fondation. No? What is the estimated date for publishing the 'peer review manual' and instruction documents (all the dead links on the Fall 2014 Pilot FO)? Definitions of Project Leader and Project Expert, plus Peer Review Process/Manual by end of December; technical instructions/checklists in New Year (note: these documents will not add much new information) Note: The December release date has been extended to January 2014 or early 2014 as of the December 11 th WebEx session.
est-ce que les bourses salariales vont disparaitre? NI Salary Award Program is planning to launch another competition in Fall 2014; continue to evaluate program and will see how NIs fare in the Fdn Scheme 1 st Pilot Does this work in reverse - everyone who is eligible for foundation 2 2015, also eligible to apply to foundation 2014? No What's the estimated minimum number (%) of new investigators CIHR hopes to fund in the Fall 2014 Foundation Pilot? Don t know; depends on application pressure; will ensure NIs are represented; issue will be examined closely can you pls clarify how existing grants held will be integrated into a new foundation grant, in particular how budgets will be allocated - in case where one leader and multiple leaders? Fdn represents entire pgm of research; so any existing Open grants will rolled into a successful Fdn grant; researchers should ask for enough $ to cover their entire program of research; CIHR will likely terminate existing individual Open budgets and provide researchers with one budget; everything will roll in Quand les autres programmes ouverts seront abolis. (PASS, POP, etc.)? For PHSI, POP competitions, CIHR is planning pilots to ensure they can be effectively integrated into the Fdn Scheme; these program should continue as is until at least Fall 2015, if not 2016, so at least 2-3-4 more competitions que contiendra le projet "Partner Gateway" pour 2014???? what do you know about your (CIHR) total budget over the next few years?
??? There is concern about the small window between the Stage 1 decision and the Stage 2 deadline (which occurs over the Christmas holidays) for researchers to develop their Stage 2 application and for institutions to provide them with support. Can you comment on this please? CIHR is conscious of this; their goal is to ensure at least an 8 week window; they will also open the application form and requirements early; CIHR will survey people about the timeline; CIHR welcomes feedback on this matter from Nancy Mcneil to All Participants: Stage 2 Foundation applicants are invited to apply between 1 DEC 2014 to 5 FEB 2015. Will the invited applicant be given a specific date to apply by, or, is it an application date range? Feb 5, 2015 is the Stage 2 deadline, it s not a range; 5pm PST is the time deadline, as per usual Dans l'avenir, pour être admissible, est-ce qu'un chercheur devra détenir une subvention de fonctionnement en continu, sans interruption? No, in the future researchers will not have to continuously hold Fdn Scheme grants in order to remain eligible How does the Foundation group of grants differ or overlap with the SPOR initiative? Foundation is an open competition; SPOR is a strategic initiative Didn t catch who provided this question: Application and Triage Estimates: CIHR anticipates: Receiving 800-1000 at Stage 1 Selecting 300-400 at Stage 2 Funding 120-250 at Stage 3 Note: Slightly different numbers were mentioned in the November 27 th WebEx session. Une suggestion : pour les mises à jour du site, les mettre en évidence avec les dates de modifications.
Yes, CIHR will make sure all updates are clear and widely communicated; typically, CIHR summarizes updates in red text; they will make obvious the changes/updates and broadly circulate correspondence Can you provide any more detail about the $500M budget for Fall 2014 + Transitional OOG? For example, the current budget for a March or September OOG is ~$240M which funds ~400 grants. In the Transitional OOG, CIHR indicates funding 450-600 grants. I m confused by the math. The $500M budget for Fall 2014 + Transitional OOG will be spread across these 2 competitions based on actual application pressures; the proposed range of funded grants for each competition represents a reasonable estimation based on CIHR modeling of historical data If someone is eligible to foundation 1 2014 and decides not to submit, can they apply to foundation 2 2015 Contact CIHR to discuss specific situation re: shared budget for transitional oogp and foundation - will you aim for similar succes rate across the two programs in deciding how much to fund in each? CIHR doesn t expect to aim for specific success rates Vous êtes très occupés. Quel est le délai de réponse via RoadMap? Service standard for RoadMap responses is 48 hours; please be patient; huge backlog (several hundred emails); CIHR is dedicating extra resources to handle the backlog