{"id":6919,"date":"2021-02-03T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=6919"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:36:30","slug":"call-for-applications-scotiabank-economic-resilience-research-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-6919","title":{"rendered":"Call for Applications: Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scotiabank and Mitacs have partnered to create the Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund (SERRF). This $300,000 partnership over three years will support research to advance economic resilience in communities across Canada.\u00a0 The partnership will solicit research applications that support the three key themes:\u00a0 1) Accelerate newcomer integration, 2) Increase high school graduation and post-secondary participation, 3) Remove barriers to career advancement for marginalized groups.\u00a0\u00a0Contributions from SERRF will flow to the academic institution at which the intern is registered and will provide up to $15,000 to eligible interns to complete a four-month internship based on the research themes above. The named student on the successful research proposal will receive a $10,000 stipend and up to $5,000 in expenses related to the direct costs of research.<\/p>\n<p>Intern eligibility criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full-time graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at Mitacs partner colleges and universities in Canada<\/li>\n<li>Students must have a supervisor at their academic institution who is willing to supervise them on this project and administer the funds through the institution<\/li>\n<li>Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and international students over the age of 18<\/li>\n<li>All academic disciplines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Application deadline: 11 February 2021 (for &#8220;expresson of interest&#8221; form), full application (for selected finalists) due 15 March 2021<\/p>\n<p>For more information, including detailed application procedures, please see:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitacs.ca\/en\/scotiabank-economic-resilience-research-fund\">https:\/\/www.mitacs.ca\/en\/scotiabank-economic-resilience-research-fund<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund Scotiabank and Mitacs have partnered to create the Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund (SERRF). This $300,000 partnership over three years will support research to advance economic resilience in communities across Canada.\u00a0 The partnership will solicit research applications that support the three key themes:\u00a0 1) Accelerate newcomer integration, 2) Increase high&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6920,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions\/6920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}