Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
CIFAR is offering CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Grant Program to accelerate your career, expand your network, collaborate across disciplines, and explore cutting-edge ideas with unrestricted research funding.
Benefits
- A two-year term in a CIFAR research program, a global, interdisciplinary network of top-tier research leaders.
- $100,000 CAD in unrestricted research support
- Mentorship from a senior researcher within a CIFAR research program
- Opportunities to network, collaborate and form a community with peers from diverse disciplines across CIFAR’s research programs
- Specialized leadership and communication skills training, and support to put their skills into action, through participation in two cross-cohort annual meetings.
Eligibility criteria
- Applicants may be based anywhere in the world, must hold a PhD (or equivalent) and be within the first five years of starting a full-time research position at an institution of higher education or research.
- Scholars’ research interests must complement or contribute to the themes and goals of an eligible CIFAR research program.
About CIFAR:
CIFAR brings together outstanding researchers from across disciplines and borders to address important challenges facing the world. They support leading edge research with the potential for global impact. Established in 1982, CIFAR is a Canadian-based, international research institute with nearly 400 fellows, scholars and advisors from 18 countries. In 2017, CIFAR was chosen by the Canadian government to lead the $125 million Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy.
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