Program description

Regular Call for Projects

Objectives

The Impact program aims to support the setting up and funding of collaborative research, development and validation of health technologies projects, involving at least one industrial partner and at least one academic (or health network) partner.

Eligibility

Academic (or Health Network) Partners:

• Academic institutions, affiliated hospitals, colleges, and CCTTs.
  Industrial Partner:
• All projects must include at least one industrial partner with R&D or manufacturing activities in Quebec.

If you do not have a partner that meets these criteria, write to us and we will help you identify them.

Some other criteria to note:

• The targeted technologies and applications are in the health field.
• All project partners must be or become members in good standing of MEDTEQ+ and remain so for the duration of the project

Funding

The funding may cover up to 40% of the eligible expenses of the academic (or health network) partners involved in the project. Projects may also be eligible for complementary funding programs such as Mitacs, HBHL, TransMedTech Institute, NSERC, foundations or any other federal or municipal government program.

There are two project categories:

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

Evaluation criteria

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

Calls for thematic projects

Several calls for thematic projects are launched during the year.

When a thematic call for projects is underway, it will be posted on the program, under the heading “Impact – ###” and you will find all the specific terms and conditions for this call. To be kept informed of the launch of these calls, subscribe to our newsletter, at the bottom right of this page.

Description of the deposit process

Your Account Executive/Project Manager is responsible for guiding you through the grant application process. There will be coaching and proofreading provided over several iterations to ensure the strongest possible funding application. Project partners must be members in good standing prior to the first review of the project. The posted first submission date is the date by which you should have completed and submitted a near final project statement, which will be forwarded to the MEDTEQ+ team for internal review and editing. If the project is deemed strong enough, the team will be invited to incorporate the comments made and submit their final, improved version. The posted final submission date is the date by which you must have finalized and sent your project statement signed by all partners. This document will be sent to the MEDTEQ+ Scientific Committee for evaluation.

Funded projects