Team Grant : Funding Research for Evidence in School Food and Health (FRESH) │ Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

For an application to be eligible, all the requirements stated below must be met:

1. The Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) must be an independent researcher or a knowledge user affiliated with a Canadian postsecondary institution or not-for-profit organization with the capacity to carry out the proposed research.
2. The NPA must have their substantive role in Canada for the duration of the requested grant term.
3. The Institution Paid must be authorized to administer CIHR funds by the funding start date.
4. The tripartite leadership team must be co-led and include each of the following in a Principal Role (one NPA and two Principal Applicants (PAs), comprising at least one member from each of the following categories:
   1. An independent researcher;
   2. A senior decision-maker with the ability and mandate to make/influence decisions regarding SFPs or policy across any scale/level (school board, municipal, Indigenous government, FPT). For example, this may include a school board director, the director of a community-based or philanthropic organization involved in SFPs, an authority in a school food environment, an Indigenous health authority representative, or a decision-maker from an Indigenous non-governmental organization in Canada with a research and/or knowledge mobilization mandate; and
   3. A knowledge user who has lived experience of, or expertise with, school food environments, food systems or SFPs. For example, this may include a practitioner, community member/leader/partner, educator, public health professional (e.g., nurse, social worker, community worker), program coordinator or participant, advocacy group, or a person with lived experience such as youth, parents or other caregivers.

*If the NPA is an independent researcher, then the knowledge user must be identified as one of the PAs. If the NPA is a knowledge user, then the independent researcher must be identified as one of the PAs.

5. The NPA and all Principal Applicants (PAs) must have successfully completed one of the Sex and Gender Training Modules available online through the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health and submit a Certificate of Completion by the full application deadline (see How to Apply for more details).*Organizations as NPAs: For organizations applying as the NPA, a representative of the organization must complete the training module on the organization’s behalf.
6. An individual cannot submit more than one (1) application to this funding opportunity as an NPA. If the NPA submits more than one application, CIHR will automatically withdraw the subsequent application(s) submitted based on timestamp of submission.
7. For any research applications involving First Nations, Inuit, and Métis populations or research areas, the team must include:
   • at least one (1) principal applicant (NPA or PA) who self-identifies as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) or who can provide evidence of having meaningful and culturally safeinvolvement with Indigenous Peoples or both (see How to Apply).AND
   • at least one (1) of the following individuals on the research team (in any role): Indigenous Elder, Indigenous Knowledge Holder, Indigenous person with lived/living experience, or an Indigenous scholar.

Note: Elders and/or Indigenous Knowledge Holders, including community representatives (other than the core tripartite leads), may participate on an application in a Collaborator role without the need to secure a CIHR PIN. Follow the instructions in the How to Apply section that pertain to Collaborators and indicate their role in the participant table. Elders’ and/or Indigenous Knowledge Holders’ contributions to the proposed activities and their meaningful engagement must also be captured in the research proposal to address the points outlined in the evaluation criteria. Please note, names of Collaborators do not appear in CIHR funding decision databases and documents.