The Team Planning Award was a developmental award that provides one-time funding for up to one year to enable new groups of BC-based researchers to come together and plan shared research activity. This non-renewable award was intended to support new teams undertaking activities such as (but not limited to):

• establishing the team;
• determining team operating and governance mechanisms;
• identifying research priorities;
• developing research plans;
• identifying and establishing collaborations and partnerships;
• specifying agreed research methodologies and approaches; and
• identifying opportunities for sharing and leveraging human and financial resources.

The focus of the Team Planning Award was on the establishment and development of the Team. Award funds couldn't be used for pilot research studies or as research operating funds. Funding was intended to augment infrastructure funding and resources available to the Team from its host institution and/or other sources, not to replace it or to take the place of support that otherwise would be allocated to the Team in the absence of MSFHR funding. The maximum award amount from MSFHR was $37,500 per Team.

Current status of the program

We are working closely with the BC Government to ensure continued support, and we expect this to lead to new opportunities to engage the province’s research community in the future.

Past Application Guidelines

For your reference, the application guidelines from the 2007 competition are available:

• 2007 Team Planning Application Guidelines (for information only)

 

Last updated April 1, 2010