BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

CBCRA’s IDEA grants support innovative, new research ideas that are speculative, but have the potential for advancing scientific knowledge. They support small-scale pilot studies or investigations of concepts to permit the investigator to test out new ideas, which, although based on good science, are outside of existing conventional research paradigms and could be deemed speculative. The expectation is that these ideas, once explored, will lead to the development of proposals for more extensive research grants. It is not the intent of the program to provide supplemental, add-on funding in support of existing, ongoing investigations.