CIHR Catalyst Grant: Partnering for Impact

Program Link:

https://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?prog=4385&view=currentOpps&org=CIHR&type=EXACT&resultCount=25&sort=program&all=1&masterList=true&language=E&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UBCResearchDigest&utm_source=UBCResearchDigest&utm_term=Vancouver&utm_content=Sept2025

 

Sponsor:

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

 

Value:

The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $5,250,000, enough to fund approximately 35 grants. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate.

 

Up to $125,000 is available per grant for up to one year, and Applicants may request an additional $25,000 (with justification) to ensure the meaningful and equitable involvement of communities or populations that require additional resources to participate in co-produced activities (such as rural, northern, youth, populations historically underrepresented within research).

 

Description:

 

The primary purpose of this initiative is to foster the creation and strengthening of research partnerships that reinforce trust and mutual understanding between researchers, knowledge users (including people with lived and/or living experience, policy makers, decision makers, and health providers), Knowledge Holders, communities, and health and community organizations (including public health). The aim of these partnerships is to advance co-produced research and co-produced knowledge mobilization activities, leading to more relevant and applicable knowledge that is positioned for implementation and impact.

 

These catalyst grants are intended to support the time and enablers required for meaningful co-produced activities that are driven by the needs of people and communities, knowledge users and/or Knowledge Holders. Of note, co-produced activities should advance health equity and/or other goals of the Quintuple Aim Framework. The Quintuple Aim Framework emphasizes the importance of addressing systemic inequities to optimize healthcare and health systems (including public health systems), and includes goals focused on patient and caregiver experience, provider experience, population health, value-based care, and health equity.

 

In addition, it is expected that a learning approach be taken to evaluate co-production processes in order to support continuous improvement and contributions to the field of knowledge mobilization. The International Development Research Centre has published one possible approach (Research Quality Plus for Co-Production) for designing, managing and evaluating research co-produced activities, but applicants are invited to select whichever co-production evaluation approach best fits their needs.

 

  1. Deadline:

10:00 AM Tuesday, October 14, 2025

 

  1. Deadline Description:

Deadline to submit signed RPIF to ORE

 

  1. Additional info:

ORE internal signature deadline for RPIFs. Applicants, please email Robert Olaj your signed (applicant and department head) RPIF + a pdf of your application. OSE applicants please contact UBC-O’s Office of Research Services for internal deadlines.

 

  1. Deadline:

8:30 AM Wednesday, October 15, 2025

 

  1. Deadline Description:

Deadline to submit RPIF to ORS

 

  1. Additional info:

Please email signed (applicant, department head, and ADR) RPIF along with a pdf of your application to ORS (ors@ors.ubc.ca). You may continue to work on the narrative sections of the application until the deadline to hit “Submit” online. However, please note that budget totals must not be changed from the submitted RPIF.

 

  1. Deadline:

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

 

  1. Deadline Description:

Deadline to ‘e-submit’ the application.

 

  1. Deadline:

Thursday, October 23, 2025

 

  1. Deadline Description:

CIHR deadline

 

Contact:

Regina Baeza Martinez

 

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