IMPACT – Regular Call for Projects

Description

IMPACT, is a regular Call for Projects designed to support the creation and funding of collaborative projects in Quebec between the private and public sectors, aimed at developing or evaluating healthcare technologies.

Eligibility

Innovation Projects:

• Research, development or validation project for a healthcare technology (regulated medical devices + IT technologies/systems (algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, etc.), designed to support healthcare organizations) ;
• Involving at least 1 industrial partner and at least 1 academic or clinical partner;
• Maximum duration of 3 years;
• Carried out in Quebec.

Academic or Clinical Partners :

• Academic institutions, the health and social services network, public research centres and college technology transfer centres (CCTT).
• The project leader must be a researcher affiliated with an academic or clinical partner.

Industrial Partners:

• Companies with research and development, manufacturing or innovation activities in Quebec.

If you don’t have a partner meeting these criteria, write to us and we’ll help you identify them. All project partners must be or become MEDTEQ+ members in good standing and remain so for the duration of the project.

Financing

The grant can cover up to 40% of eligible expenses for academic and clinical partners in Quebec.

Projects may also use complementary funding sources, for example: Mitacs, Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL), Institut TransMedTech, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), foundations or any other public program of the federal or municipal government.

Two project categories:

• SME” category
  • Projects must significantly involve a Quebec SME
  • 40% of eligible project expenses
  • Partner company(ies) must contribute a minimum of 20% of eligible project expenses.
• Large company” category
  • Project does not significantly involve a Quebec SME
  • Assistance of 20% of eligible project expenses
  • Partner company(ies) must contribute a minimum of 40% of eligible project expenses.

The maximum value of the grant is $500,000 per year, for a maximum of 3 years, or $1.5 million per project.

Evaluation Criteria

Grant applications will be judged on the basis of relevance, quality and economic, social or technological benefits for Quebec.

Description of the Application Process

Your account manager’s role is to help you structure your project, including identifying industrial, academic or clinical partners, and putting together your grant application.

Support and proofreading will be provided over several iterations to ensure that your funding application is as robust as possible.

Project partners must be members in good standing prior to the first review of the project.

The first submission date corresponds to the date by which you must have completed and sent in a near-final project statement, which will be forwarded to the MEDTEQ+ team for proofreading and internal revision. If the project is deemed sufficiently robust, you will be invited to incorporate the comments made and submit your final version.

The final submission date corresponds to the date by which you must have finalized and sent your project statement signed by all partners. This document will be forwarded to the MEDTEQ+ Scientific Committee for evaluation.

Additional information and clarifications may be requested by the latter before issuing its final recommendation. Approved projects are then sent to the Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie, which will analyze them and may request additional information before confirming funding. An award letter is then sent to the project team, who must sign a research agreement within a few months.

Funded Projects

Discover the projects funded by the regular Call for Project