CFN Research & KT Funding Opportunities
Current Competitions
Catalyst Funding Program in Healthy Aging – Accepting applications until Feb. 24, 2023
Healthy Aging Canada, a new innovative collaborative initiative between AGE-WELL and CFN, is looking to fund high-quality projects through the 2023 Catalyst Funding Program in Healthy Aging. This competition will support innovative one-year research projects with a focus on technology-enabled solutions or novel technologies that support healthy aging across the older adult life course, through to end of life. Click here for further details on the competition.
KFL&A Regional Centre for Healthy Aging Ancillary Studies Competition – Competition closed to new applicants
The Canadian Frailty Network (CFN) is looking to fund high-quality research, knowledge translation and implementation of innovation in practice studies on healthy aging carried out in the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) region. This competition is designed to support ancillary studies on older adults aged 65y+ residing in the KFL&A region who are participants in CFN’s AVOID Frailty Program via the KFL&A Centre for Healthy Aging. Click here for further details on the competition.
AVOID Frailty Regional Centres for Healthy Aging Grants Competition – Competition closed to new applicants
CFN is looking to fund at least two Regional Centres for Healthy Aging (RCHA) in spreading the implementation of CFN’s AVOID Frailty Program – a community-driven health intervention that aims to enable uptake and maintenance of healthy behaviours among older adults. Click here for further details on the competition, including the revised RFP.
Results of recent competitions
Springboard Grants Program – Early Career Researcher Competition
Eight projects were funded under this competition that aimed to help early career researchers (ECRs) in Canada build skills, knowledge and allow them to develop early stage research programs such that they are competitive for future larger funding competitions. One project was co-funded with each of three partners, AGE-WELL, Perley Health and Sepsis Canada, and five were funded solely through CFN. Click here for details of the successful projects and the competition.
Frailty and COVID-19
Three projects were funded, aimed at investigating the interaction between frailty and COVID-19. Older adults living with frailty are the most vulnerable to COVID-19. As a result, CFN looked for health, social or policy research studies that investigated determinants of increased susceptibility, and solutions to mitigate or prevent the differential risk to COVID-19. Click here for details of the successful projects and the competition.
Empowering Indigenous Communities to Improve the Care of Elders Living with Frailty
Five projects were funded under this competition, which intended to fund knowledge translation and real-world implementation proposals aimed to empower remote Indigenous communities to enable them to improve care for and support their elders to remain in their home or communities. Only proposals that were co-created/co-designed in close partnership with Indigenous community members could be funded. Proposals were also required to focus on the scale or spread of a prior health and/or social care initiative shown to be effective in a smaller context. Click here for details of the successful projects and the competition.
Questions
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