Funding opportunity: IVADO Exploratory Projects Program 2024

No deadline

IVADO is launching a competition for researchers working on exploratory projects related to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). An exploratory project is a small or medium-scale, creative, innovative, and bold research project, ideally intersectoral or interdisciplinary, allowing the exploration of new ideas related to the IAR3 initiative.

The general description of the IAR3 initiative, New Paradigms for Robust, Reasoning, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence and Its Adoption, and its scientific framework is available on the Canada First Research Excellence Fund website.

The Exploratory Projects Program will support researchers making an innovative and bold contribution to the advancement and expansion of IAR3 research themes. It will offer support for the development of their exploratory research projects, particularly by funding graduate students and postdoctoral fellows working on these projects.

The Exploratory Projects Program encourages new collaborations between researchers working in sectors or fields related to the IVADO Groupings themes. Projects developed on emerging themes, that is, other than those of the IVADO Groupings (e.g., quantum physics and AI or music and AI), are also encouraged, as long as they align with IVADO's mission.

Objectives:

• Support cutting-edge exploratory research by funding creative, innovative, and bold projects, ideally intersectoral or interdisciplinary. Projects can also be training or partnership projects.
• Support AI projects, on AI, or with AI.
• Allow exploration of avant-garde ideas related to and/or on the margins of IAR3.
• Encourage new collaborations between researchers from different sectors or disciplines and different institutions.
• Encourage projects led by and/or involving members of underrepresented groups, promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Funding and Duration: Maximum $100,000 for 1 year.

Application Process:

• Submission of the letter of intent: At any time.
• Result (letter of intent): 4 weeks after submission. Elimination stage.
• Submission of the complete application: At any time.
• Result (complete application): 6-7 weeks after submission.

Exploratory projects must be led by a team composed of at least two professors, with the principal investigator being from the Université de Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal, HEC Montréal, Université Laval, or McGill University. Professors from other universities in Quebec, Canada, or abroad can be co-investigators.

The principal investigator must:

• Be a regular faculty member at HEC Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Montréal, Université Laval, or McGill University;
• Hold one of the following eligible positions: assistant professor, associate professor, full professor.

It is expected that research teams reflect different career levels, allowing collaboration between established and emerging researchers.

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This content has been updated on 3 June 2024 at 16 h 19 min.