Capacity Building Event

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) requires that applicants to funding competitions complete a Canadian Common CV, or CCV. The CCV is a web-based application that provides researchers with a single, common approach to gathering CV information required by a network of federal, provincial and not-for-profit research funding organizations. With CIHR’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR), people with lived experience are increasingly being required to be active partners on research teams and projects. As such, patient, family and community research partners are also expected to submit CCVs for the applications they are involved in. But completing a CCV can be a daunting and time-consuming task! That is why the Canadian Heart Function Alliance, HeartLife, and TRANSFORM HF are working with the Alberta SPOR Support Unit to deliver a CCV Workshop. This workshop will begin with a short introduction to understanding the grant funding application process and potential patient research partner roles. It will then provide guidelines and considerations to completing a patient research partner CCV.Learning Objectives Over the course of two Zoom sessions, the workshop will: Support patient, family and community research partners to understand, and become more active in, the grant application process. Provide support for patients, families […]