Policies and Terms of References

Learn more about CanVECTOR’s Policies and Terms of References below.

Policies

CanVECTOR’s activities and outputs are measured by a series of deliverables, which are key to the network’s long-term sustainability. Deliverables include supported scientific and lay presentations, abstracts, publications, and new grants (e.g. operating grants, salary awards) obtained.

Regular tracking of deliverables are used:

  1. internally, to guide direction of the Network and to communicate progress to CanVECTOR’s members;
  2. externally, to demonstrate impact to network partners and reports to CanVECTOR’s External Advisory Board (EAB);
  3. and in the future, to help support large scale applications for long-term funding of CanVECTOR (e.g. SPOR, NCE).

Proper attribution and acknowledgement of a given activity as being CanVECTOR-supported is essential to tracking CanVECTOR deliverables.

As a researcher, trainee or study/project team, there are also professional benefits to demonstrating that you are a member of a productive national research network and have access to collaborators, expertise and resources through CanVECTOR membership.

For complete details, please view the canvector-acknowledgement-policy

The CanVECTOR Conflict of Interest (COI) Policy is established to ensure the integrity, objectivity, and impartiality of the review process for network awards. The purpose of this policy is to identify and manage potential conflicts of interest that may compromise the fairness and credibility of the review process.

For complete details, please view the reviewer-conflict-of-interest-policy

Terms of Reference

CanVECTOR will support and distribute surveys that are relevant to our network members. Applicants must submit the following components to CanVECTOR in their applications:

  1. Ethics approval or waiver
  2. Survey document or a link to the survey
  3. Statement of introduction and names and titles of requestor(s) to accompany the survey e-mail
  4. Brief 1-paragraph description of the purpose of the survey, the target population, the methodology, and how the results will be used
  5. Assurance of confidentiality and anonymity of respondents or rationale for including identifiers

See the CanVECTOR ToR for Surveying Members for complete details.

Please complete a request for network services or support form (bottom of the page) to submit a request.

CanVECTOR applies a Network Project Fee to all successful CanVECTOR-supported grants with budgets >$50,000.

For complete details, please view the Network Project Fee Terms of Reference that describes the process and provides guidance for how to incorporate the project fee in grant budgets when submitting proposals for CanVECTOR-supported research projects to funding agencies.