Congratulations to the recipients of FRQ-2025-2026 funding!

The Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) recently announced the recipients of its 2025-2026 funding programs. Congratulations to the Cirris researchers and students whose projects have been funded through this competition!

Prof. Alexandre Campeau-Lecours
Program: Team Research Project
Project: Development and validation of a voice control interface for assistive technologies for people living with disabilities
Program: Audace
Project: Development of an anticipatory assistance system using electromyography to assist with involuntary movements in people living with motor incoordination

Prof. François Routhier
Program: Dialogue / Researchers
Project: Xprescience: A media project for popularizing science by, for, and with people with disabilities

Simon Tremblay-Turcotte
Program: Doctoral Research Scholarship
Project: Inclusive aviation: designing accessible and inclusive toilet areas in commercial aircraft for all passengers

Megan Veilleux
Program: Master’s Research Scholarships – Regular Component
Project: Supporting the social participation of people living with traumatic brain injury through the co-development of an intergenerational intervention.

Bérangère Naudé
Program: Springboard Grant
Project: Ergonomic audit of an application promoting residential independence for people with disabilities.

Héloïse Baglione
Program: Doctoral Research Grants for Professional Degree Holders – Regular Component
Project: Clinical management of deficits in understanding affective prosody: a new treatment approach

Aristide Honado
Program: Doctoral Research Scholarships – Research Reintegration Component
Project: Co-creation program for individualized assistive devices to promote social participation among people with disabilities

Ismaël Breton
Program: Master’s research fellowships
Project: Development and validation of a new generation of physical assistance robots

Jean-François Filiatrault
Program: Postdoctoral fellowships
Project: Institutional pathways of people with intellectual and sensory disabilities: life trajectories, self-determination, and intervention strategies

Karine Gendron
Program: Master’s Research Scholarships
Project: Understanding the life trajectories and factors influencing the residential transition experiences of aging adults with intellectual disabilities who left their family home after the age of 40.

Lucie Gattaz
Program: PBEEE / Doctoral Research Scholarships
Project: Social participation and cognitive difficulties following cancer and its treatments: better understanding to better support those affected and their caregivers.

Maxime Boutet
Program: Master’s Research Scholarships
Project: Use of rhythmic sensory stimulation in exploring the neural mechanisms involved in pain perception.

The mission of the Fonds de recherche du Québec is to support and promote excellence in research and the training of the next generation of researchers in the natural sciences and engineering, health sciences, social sciences and humanities, arts, and literature.