My name is Ken Simiyu, a Program Officer at Grand Challenges Canada which is funded by the Government of Canada. We are based in Toronto.
I would like to take this opportunity to let you know of Round 5 of our Stars in global health program, which is a funding opportunity that may interest your colleagues (My apologies if you already have received this communication or know about our program).
Applicants apply for $100,000 seed grants which can later be scaled with a grant of up to $ 1,000,000.
In Round 3 of our program we received about 300 applications from all over the world and selected 68. Round 4 results will be released late January but we anticipate awarding between 70-100 grants out of the 450 that applied.
The deadline for application for Round 5 is February 6, 2013.
The application process is extremely simple. It consists of a two-page concept with a two-minute video.
An example of funded projects can be found at http://www.grandchallenges.ca/stars-r3-grantee-announcement-en/
Potential applicants could come from Universities (departments of engineering, law, agriculture and veterinary sciences, food science and nutrition, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, public health, business schools, computer science, arts and science, education, anthropology, sociology, etc.), for profit and non profit companies, community based organizations, research institutes etc
More details on this program and Grand Challenges Canada can be found at http://www.grandchallenges.ca/grand-challenges/gc1-stars/stars-program-information/
We would appreciate if you could disseminate this information.
If you are interested in being included in Grand Challenges Canada mailing list to receive frequent information on our grants please subscribe at http://www.grandchallenges.ca/subscribe/
Thanks
Ken
Ken Simiyu, PHD
Program Officer
Grand Challenges Canada / Grands Défis Canada
at the Sandra Rotman Centre
MaRS Centre, South Tower
101 College Street, Suite 406
Toronto, ON M5G 1L7
T 416.953.7581
E ken.simiyu@grandchallenges.ca
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