Call for applications: 2019 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters competition

July 22, 2019

The Offices of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, are pleased to announce the 2019 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) competition. Vancouver researchers are invited to submit their Notice of Intent to apply by September 23, 2019.

These awards are specifically targeted at catalyzing research initiatives at UBC. Funding is to be used strategically by recipients to attract further opportunities for cluster development. Grants are enabled by the UBC Vancouver Academic Excellence Fund in support of Strategy 6 (Research Excellence) in UBC’s Strategic Plan. 


2019 competition information 


In response to broad consultation, applicants can now select a grant term of one or two years and apply for an additional trainee stipend supplement. Grant funding will also now align with fiscal years. 


Applications are being invited from both emerging and established clusters of research excellence in all disciplines. Previously funded clusters, as well as new clusters, are eligible to apply to this competition. A Notice of Intent to apply must be submitted by September 23, 2019


Details of this funding competition, information sessions, and instructions for applying can be found at www.research.ubc.ca/GCRC


GCRC competitions are open to clusters led by researchers at the Vancouver campus. Clusters being led by researchers at the Okanagan campus can apply for funding through the Eminence program at https://research.ok.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/eminence.html
 


First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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