External Grants

SSHRC - Connection Grants

Funding: up to $25,000 for events or $50,000 for other outreach activities; 1 year duration
Deadline - Full Application: July 30 @ Noon

For support of events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage on research issues of value to those participating. Funded events and outreach activities may often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects potentially eligible for funding through other SSHRC funding opportunities. SSHRC welcomes applications involving research-creation, as well as aboriginal research.

New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Funding: up to $125,000/year up to 2 years
Deadline - Notice of Intent: August 7                                                        Deadline - Letter of Intent: Sept 4                                                                            Deadline - Full Application: Dec 10

The objective of the Exploration stream is to support high risk, high reward and interdisciplinary research. It seeks to inspire projects that bring disciplines together beyond traditional disciplinary or common interdisciplinary approaches by research teams with the capacity to explore something new that might fail, but has the potential for significant impact. The 2019 competition is open to teams composed of established and/or early career researchers, and includes mandatory notice of intent to apply (NOI) and letter of intent to apply (LOI) stages.

Information re: the university’s internal support for this program will be published in the coming days. 

Heart and Stroke Foundation - Grants in Aid 

Funding: up to $100,000/year for 2-3 years
Deadline - Full Application: August 27 @ Noon     

The Heart & Stroke Grant-in-Aid (GIA) program provides operating funds to support, important, pertinent, novel research in the areas of heart disease and stroke. GIA funding promotes research discovery, exploration and innovation across all health research themes. Knowledge gained from scientific findings, contributes to the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health of Canadians through prevention, treatment and recovery. 

HSF is also offering an award focused on improving heart and brain health for women to mid-career and senior career researchers, with a value of $50,000 for 1 year: http://www.hsf.ca/research/en/grants-aid#1. These applications will also be considered within the main GIA application stream.

Please note that this competition will be part of the new Research Management System (RMS) Release #1, and approvals will be obtained electronically.

CIHR - Catalyst Grant: Understanding Disease Prevention & Risk Factor Modification

Funding: up to $100,000 up to 1 year
Deadline - Registration: August 28 @ Noon                                                  Deadline - Full Application: Sept 20 @ Noon

As a first step in charting the course for improved preventive efforts, CIHR’s Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH), in partnership with the Institute of Aging (IA), the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), the Institute of Infection and Immunity (III), the Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health (IIPH), and the Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH) are launching a one-year catalyst grant opportunity to provide funding for research to expand the evidence and further understanding that can lead to future intervention studies in prevention. 

SSHRC - Partnership Engage Grants

Funding: $7,000 - $25,000 over 1 year
Deadline - Full Application: Sept 12 @ Noon

This funding provides short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through this grant are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. In addressing an organization-specific need, challenge and/or opportunity, these partnerships let non-academic organizations and post-secondary researchers access each other’s unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities on topics of mutual interest.

SSHRC - Connection Grants

Funding: up to $25,000 for events or $50,000 for other outreach activities; 1 year duration
Deadline - Full Application: Oct 30 @ Noon

For support of events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage on research issues of value to those participating. Funded events and outreach activities may often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects potentially eligible for funding through other SSHRC funding opportunities. SSHRC welcomes applications involving research-creation, as well as aboriginal research.