Funding Opportunities

These are user-contributed funding opportunities which are related in some way to the advancement of teaching and learning in higher education.

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Online Program Development Fund

Source institution or organization: 
BCcampus

The BCcampus Online Program Development Fund (OPDF) awards grants to qualified proposals to support inter-institutional collaboration and partnerships developing online courses, complete programs, learning objects, and virtual or remote access labs. Grants focus on giving students access to more programs to help them complete degrees, diplomas, and certificates.

AMTEC Trust

Source institution or organization: 
Canadian Network for Innovation in Education

The Association for Media and Technology in Canada established the AMTEC Trust in the 1990s to advance the field of educational communications, media and technology with a particular focus on research, development and evaluation activities.

Inukshuk Funding for the Learning Plan 2009

Source institution or organization: 
Inukshuk

The emergence of wireless and broadband communication services is resulting in a new wave of innovation and creativity that benefits learning communities.

Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation Award in the Fine and Performing Arts

Source institution or organization: 
Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation

The Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation provides funding to stimulate and invigorate non–profit organizations in the cultural and creative arts and the social services who serve communities throughout British Columbia and the Yukon.

Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation

Source institution or organization: 
Box 39209 Point Grey R.P.O · 3695 West 10th Avenue · Vancouver, B.C. · V6R 4P1

The Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation provides funding to stimulate and invigorate non–profit organizations in the cultural and creative arts and the social services who serve communities throughout British Columbia and the Yukon.

RESEARCH, EXCHANGE AND IMPACT FOR SYSTEM SUPPORT (REISS) FUNDING

Source institution or organization: 
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation

The REISS Competition, based on effective linkage and exchange, features several exciting components. The foundation is committed to funding four programs per year (one per theme), with a maximum contribution to each of $500,000 over four years.

LINKING EVIDENCE TO ACTION ON DECISIONS (LEAD)

Source institution or organization: 
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation

The new LEAD grants are designed to sustain evidence-based change within healthcare organizations. LEAD aims to support the generation of new knowledge about factors that affect the successful implementation of evidence-informed management and policy decisions.

INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATING FUND

Source institution or organization: 
McGill Strategic University Research Funding

The Infrastructure Operating Fund (IOF) is designed to contribute to the incremental operating and maintenance costs of infrastructure projects funded by the CFI.

LEADERS OPPORTUNITY FUND

Source institution or organization: 
McGill Strategic University Research Funding

The Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF) builds on the New Opportunities Fund, the Canada Research Chairs Infrastructure Fund, and Career Awards Fund, and is designed to assist universities in attracting excellent faculty to Canadian universities as well as retaining the very best of today and tomorrow’s leading researchers for Canada.

Canada Research Chairs

Source institution or organization: 
Government of Canada: Canada Research Chairs

In 2000, the Government of Canada created a new permanent program to establish 2000 research professorships—Canada Research Chairs—in universities across the country by 2008. The Canada Research Chairs Program invests $300 million a year to attract and retain some of the world's most accomplished and promising minds.
How are Chairs awarded?

CIHR - Current Funding Opportunities

Source institution or organization: 
Canadian Institutes of Health Research

See website for list of current funding opportunities.

Research Development Initiatives

Source institution or organization: 
SSHRC

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Image, Text, Sound and Technology (ITST)

Source institution or organization: 
SSHRC

The program will provide funding for researchers and their graduate students to develop expertise in applying advanced technology through summer institutes, workshops and conferences.

Canadian Initiative on Social Statistics (CISS) Data Training Schools

Source institution or organization: 
SSHRC

The Data Training Schools (DTS) serves postsecondary institution researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, policy analysts and data librarians. DTS courses cover topics in quantitative methods and the use of Canadian micro-data. The DTS initiative contributes to increasing the number of researchers engaged in quantitative research.

Value:  Up to $50,000

SSHRC Institutional Grants (SIG)

Source institution or organization: 
SSHRC

Under this program, SSHRC helps eligible Canadian postsecondary institutions fund small-scale research activities by their faculty in the social sciences and humanities.

Aid to Small Universities (ASU)

Source institution or organization: 
SSHRC

To help small universities develop focused research capacity in the social sciences and humanities

Special Research Opportunity (SRO) Program

Source institution or organization: 
NSERC

Program Objectives

Ship Time Program

Source institution or organization: 
NSERC

Objective

Discovery Grants Northern Research Supplements Program

Source institution or organization: 
NSERC

Objective

Discovery Grants - Discovery Accelerator Supplements

Source institution or organization: 
NSERC

The DAS Program will provide substantial and timely resources to a small group of outstanding researchers who have a well-established research program, and who show strong potential to become international leaders in their respective area of research. These additional resources will be allocated when progress of the incumbent’s research program is held back by insufficient funding.

Discovery Grants (DG) (Individual, Group and Subatomic Physics [SAP] Project)

Source institution or organization: 
NSERC

Objective

Discovery Grants assist in:

Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program

Source institution or organization: 
NSERC

Objectives

Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP)

Source institution or organization: 
NSERC and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

NSERCCIHR

 Duration

Strategic Network Grants Supplemental Competition in Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture

Source institution or organization: 
NSERC

Duration

 Up to five years 

Strategic Project Grants Supplemental Competition in Aquaculture and Capture Fisheries

Source institution or organization: 
NSERC

NSERC is instituting a special supplemental Strategic Project Grants (SPG) competition this year as part of its efforts to address priority areas that were identified in the Government of Canada's Budget 2008. This special competition will be held subsequent to the SPG competition that is already underway.