CRIS Research Roundup
A weekly digest of research and innovation communications.
In This Issue
Issue 313: Week of Monday September 7, 2026 – Sunday September 13, 2026
Resources for the Research & Innovation Community
Featured Training & Events
- NSERC Discovery Grant: Strategies for Success
September 16, 2026, 10:30am–12:00pm - SharePoint for Research: What Every Researcher Should Know
September 29, 2026, 1:00pm–2:00pm - Hands-on Workshop: Applying GenAI Tools to Scholarly Writing
Apply by October 2, 2026
November 12, 2026, 9:30am–12:30 pm
More Training & Events
- A World First: From Bench to Bedside Advancing Regenerative Medicine Through Compassionate Access and Clinical Research
September 15, 2026, 11:00am–12:00pm - Alliance International Collaboration Grants Info Session
French Session: September 15, 2026, 11:00am–12:30pm
English Session: September 16, 2026, 1:00pm–2:30pm - Equity Guiding Questions Tool
September 15, 2026, 12:00pm–1:00pm - NSERC Discovery Grants: Live Q&A
English Session: September 15, 2026, 1:00pm–2:30pm
French Session: September 17, 2026, 1:00pm–2:30pm - Lecture Me! Demystifying Artificial Intelligence
September 15, 2026, 7:00pm–8:15pm - Knowledge Café: The State of Local Democracy in Canada
September 16, 2026, 3:30pm–4:30pm - 2026 Smart Growth Symposium
September 17, 2026, 8:30am–12:45pm - U of T AcceleratorFest
September 17, 2026, 11:00am–4:00pm - CRAFT-Unity Clinical Validation Matchmaking
September 17, 2026, 1:00pm–2:00pm - Gerstein + MADLab 3D Printing Safety Training
September 17, 2026, 12:00pm–1:00pm
September 25, 2026, 12:00pm–1:00pm - What Questions Are Possible?
September 17, 2026, 6:00pm–7:30pm - 2026 Tanenbaum Institute for Science in Sport Conference
September 18, 2026, 8:00am–5:00pm - NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grant: Strategies for Success
September 18, 2026, 10:30am–12:00pm - Fun Data Fridays: Excel and the Fundamentals of Data
September 18, 2026, 1:00pm–3:00pm - Records of Early English Drama 50th Anniversary Colloquium – Applying REED to Reality: Pedagogy, Performance and Data Futures
September 19, 2026, 12:00am–11:59pm - Network for Healthy Populations Seminar
September 21, 2026, 12:00pm–1:00pm - Protecting Knowledge: Research Security in Social Sciences and Humanities | Public Safety Canada
September 21, 2026, 1:00pm–2:00pm - Horizon Europe Cluster 1: International Collaboration on Health & Disease
September 22, 2026, 10:00am–12:00pm - Introduction to the Alliance & ARC for HSS
English Session: September 22, 2026, 12:00pm–1:00pm
French Session: September 24, 2026, 12:00pm–1:00pm - NSERC Research Tools and Instruments: Live Q&A
French Session: September 22, 2026, 1:00pm–2:00pm
English Session: September 24, 2026, 1:00pm–2:00pm - OSSU Research Day 2026
September 23, 2026, 8:00am–5:30pm - Mapping with Intention: Building Your Research Mentorship Community
September 24, 2026, 10:30am–11:30am - SSHRC Partnership Development Grants Webinars
English Session: September 24, 2026, 11:00am–1:00pm
French Session: September 25, 2026, 11:00am–1:00pm - CBRCanada – The Pedagogies of Community Engagement Practice Research Project (PECEP)
September 24, 2026, 12:00pm–1:00pm - Research & Innovation Dashboards Training for Users
September 25, 2026, 10:00am–11:00am - Technophilosophy September Soiree: Will AI Be the Next Great Scientist?
September 25, 2026, 4:30pm–7:00pm - What’s the Big PIDea? Canada’s National PID Strategy Webinar Series
September 29, 2026, 1:00pm–2:00pm - CANSSI 2026 Distinguished Lecture in Statistical Sciences: Daniela Witten
October 1, 2026, 3:30pm–5:30pm - Company and Competitor Research
October 1, 2026, 12:00pm–1:00pm - BRN 5th Anniversary Social
October 2, 2026, 4:00pm–6:00pm - Fun Data Fridays: Data Cleaning with OpenRefine
October 2, 2026, 1:00pm–3:00pm - Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026: Register for October Training Events
October 6, 2026, 10:00am–11:15am - Community-Engaged Research from Principles to Practice 1: Cultivating Community Engagement and Communication
October 6, 2026, 1:00pm–2:30pm - Dual-Use Technologies: Know Your Research – Know your Partners – Assess the Risk | Public Safety Canada
October 6, 2026, 1:00pm–2:00pm - SCMP161 Intro to Containers
October 6, 2026, 2:00pm–4:00pm
MORE RESOURCES
Tri-Agency Funding: Strategic Grant Writing Team (SGWT) available to support NSERC applications
Original Communication – Research Alerts: September 10, 2026
The Strategic Grant Writing Team (SGWT), launched by the Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation (VPRI) with support from the Provost, is available to support the development of proposals for NSERC Alliance Advantage or Society Grant (total project budget request >$500K) and NSERC Alliance International Collaboration Grant (total project budget request >$200K).
BRN Programming Resources
Original Communication – BRN Update: September 9, 2026
Explore all materials related to BRN workshops.
U of T’s AI Kitchen
Original Communication – CTSI Connect: September 8, 2026
The new AI Kitchen landing page is live on the ai.utoronto.ca website. This is your definitive source for tools offered by the AI Kitchen with links to & information on how to request licenses, what each tool is, and what we’re cooking up next.
Funding & Information from Sponsors & Partners
Funding Calls & Program Changes
NSERC Geoffrey Hinton Prize
Original Communication – Research Alerts: September 10, 2026
Lab2Market Health Discover – Call for Applications
Original Communication – Research Alerts: September 10, 2026
Microbiome Innovations for New Therapies (MINT): Call for Applications Now Open!
Original Communication – Weston Family Foundation Communications: September 9, 2026
UC Chile Avanza 2026 Research Competition – U of T Matching Funds
Original Communication – Research Alerts: September 9, 2026
News, Information & Updates
Information & Updates
Indigenous Knowledge Systems to Be Represented in Classification System
Original Communication – Dialogue – eNewsletter of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: September 10, 2026
Indigenous Knowledge Systems will soon be added to the Canadian Research and Development Classification (CRDC), a common framework used to measure and report on research activities in Canada, and maintained through a partnership between Statistics Canada and the federal research funding agencies.
Call for Nominations – 2027 University of Toronto President’s Impact Awards (PDAD&C #4)
Original Communication – Provost’s Weekly Digest: September 11, 2026
Nominations are now open for the University of Toronto President’s Impact Awards, which celebrate and honour faculty members and teams of faculty whose research has led to significant impact beyond academia. The deadline to submit nominations is February 19.