Heart and Strike Foundation of Canada Master’s Personnel Awards for Black Scholars 2025-2026

Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada are supporting the 2025/26 Master’s Personnel Awards for Black Scholars in committing up to a total of $270,000. This award was established to support Black scholars of African or Caribbean heritage and/or ancestry in Canada, and was co-created with Black leaders at all career stages who supported Heart & Stroke in the development of this funding opportunity. The objective of the competition is to increase the number of highly-qualified Black trainees across Canada committed to working in the fields of heart and/or brain research.

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirments
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineMarch 20, 2025
• Value$54,000
• Study LevelMasters
• SponsorHeart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

In the context of this award, heart and/or brain health research encompasses research addressing conditions, including neurological, that affect the cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular health of people living in Canada. This could include research focused on prevention, treatment, and/or recovery related to heart conditions, stroke, vascular cognitive impairment, and mental health in relation to these conditions. The stipends awarded will be up to $54,000 CAD ($27,000 per year for up to two (2) years) enabling Black trainees to focus on their Master’s research studies and engage with mentors as part of their training.

Requirements

Eligibility

In order to be eligible to apply for the 2025/26 Master’s Personnel Award for Black Scholars, applicants must meet the following criteria:

• Applicants must self-identify as Black. Please refer to section A.7 for further details.
• As of the application deadline date applicants must be Canadian citizens, permanent residents of
• Canada or Protected Persons under subsection 95(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection
• Act (Canada).
•  At the time of submission, applicants must either (a) be enrolled in a full-time Master’s program at an eligible Canadian institution, or (b) have applied for full-time admission to a Master’s program at an eligible Canadian institution, with a start date of no later than September 30, 2025. Applicants must submit, from the institution, confirmation of being enrolled/accepted as a full-time student, or have submitted an application for full-time admission in a Master’s program. For more details, please refer to the ‘Institutional Statement’ in section B.12.
• Partial Master’s Personnel Awards for less than one (1) year of funding are not available.
• Applicants must have an identified research supervisor based at an eligible Canadian institution where the research will be undertaken.

Application Deadline

March 20, 2025

How To Apply

Are you qualified and interested in this opportunity? Kindly go to Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada on circulink.heartandstroke.ca to apply

Applications are to be submitted via Heart & Stroke’s online grants management system, CIRCUlink.

It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that a completed application is submitted via CIRCUlink no later than Thursday, March 20, 2025, 4:00 PM ET. CIRCUlink will NOT allow submissions after this deadline. Any applications attempted or submitted by email or mail after the deadline will NOT be accepted. There will be no appeal process for late submissions.