External Research Funding
Important Note Regarding Internal Deadlines
The External Funding Opportunities Database shows opportunities by external deadline. All external funding applications must be submitted to the Office of Research Services for internal review at least two weeks prior to the external deadline. Special competitions may sometimes involve earlier internal deadlines.
| Agency |
Program |
Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering | Thursday, April 1, 2021 |
| CMC Microsystems | Douglas R. Colton award | Friday, August 14, 2020 |
| Canada Council | Killam Prizes | Tuesday, June 30, 2020 |
| National Research Council of Canada (NRC) | 2021 Euripides²/PENTA joint call for proposals | Friday, February 26, 2021 |
| Canadian Blood Services | 2021 Intramural Research Grant Program Competition | Friday, February 26, 2021 |
| Kidney Foundation of Canada | 2021 Kidney Health Research Grant Competition | Monday, February 1, 2021 |
| Royal Society of Canada | 2021 RSC Medals & Awards | Wednesday, March 31, 2021 |
| EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) / Canada, Brain Canada Foundation/Women’s Brain Health Initiative | A sex and gender approach to linking pre-diagnosis disturbances of physiological systems to neurodegenerative diseases | Tuesday, March 2, 2021 |
| American Chemical Society | ACS Petroleum Research Fund | Friday, March 12, 2021 |
| Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | AgriRisk Initiatives: Microgrants | Friday, March 31, 2023 |
| Kidney Foundation of Canada | Allied Health Kidney Doctoral Fellowship | Monday, March 1, 2021 |
| Kidney Foundation of Canada | Allied Health Kidney Research Grant | Monday, March 1, 2021 |
| Brain and Behavior Research Foundation | BBRF Young Investigator Grant | Thursday, March 25, 2021 |
| Brain Canada | Bell Let’s Talk-Brain Canada Mental Health Research Program | Tuesday, March 16, 2021 |
| The Gairdner Foundation | Call for Nominations: Canada Gairdner Wightman Award | Thursday, October 1, 2020 |
| Accessibility Standards Canada | Call for proposals for the Advancing Accessibility Standards Research program | Thursday, March 25, 2021 |
| Public Health Agency of Canada | Call for Proposals: Preventing and Addressing Family Violence - the Health Perspective | Wednesday, January 27, 2021 |
| National Research Council of Canada (NRC) | Canada – South Korea 2021 collaborative industrial research and development call for proposals | Thursday, February 25, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Catalyst Grant : STBBI Research in Canada: Beyond HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C | Wednesday, June 9, 2021 |
| Canadian Cancer Society | CCS 2020 Awards for Excellence in Cancer Research | Wednesday, December 2, 2020 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Chair : Applied Public Health | Thursday, March 18, 2021 |
| GlycoNet | Clinical Partnerships | Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
| The Wenner-Gren Foundation | Conference and Workshop Grants | Tuesday, June 1, 2021 |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Connection Grants | Saturday, May 1, 2021 |
| Canadian Science Policy Centre | CSPC 2020 Awards | Friday, August 28, 2020 |
| Canadian Space Agency | Data and Sample Mining (DM) or Research Models (RM): Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for Health & Life Sciences | Friday, June 4, 2021 |
| Department of Defense | Defense Health Program Department of Defense Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) | Friday, April 9, 2021 |
| Department of Defense | Defense Health Program Department of Defense Lung Cancer Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) | Tuesday, April 6, 2021 |
| Department of Defense | Defense Health Program Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) | Thursday, April 1, 2021 |
| Canadian Space Agency | Developing innovative food production technologies with the Deep Space Food Challenge | Friday, July 30, 2021 |
| The Wenner-Gren Foundation | Dissertation Fieldwork Grants | Saturday, May 1, 2021 |
| Ministry for Seniors and Accessibility | EnAbling Change Program | Friday, March 26, 2021 |
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environmental Damages Fund | Wednesday, February 24, 2021 |
| National Research Council of Canada (NRC) | EUREKA SMART Cluster’s fourth call for proposals | Wednesday, March 24, 2021 |
| Global Affairs Canada | Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program | Thursday, February 25, 2021 |
| The Wenner-Gren Foundation | Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowships (ethnographic film) | Saturday, May 1, 2021 |
| Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks | Forest Sector Investment and Innovation Program | Friday, March 19, 2021 |
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering | Thursday, April 1, 2021 |
| Crohn’s and Colitis Canada | Grants-in-Aid of Research | Wednesday, March 10, 2021 |
| Human Frontier Science Program | HFSP Research Grant Program | Thursday, March 18, 2021 |
| The Wenner-Gren Foundation | Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships (writing) | Saturday, May 1, 2021 |
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Idea to Innovation Grants | Monday, March 29, 2021 |
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Idea to Innovation Grants | Monday, June 28, 2021 |
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | John C. Polanyi Award | Thursday, April 1, 2021 |
| Kidney Foundation of Canada | Krescent Post-Doctoral Fellowship / Krescent New Investigator Award | Monday, February 1, 2021 |
| The Canadian Bar Association | Law for the Future Fund | Saturday, May 1, 2021 |
| MITACS | Mitacs Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund CFP | Thursday, February 11, 2021 |
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | NSERC Synergy Awards | Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
| CIHR/Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance | Operating Grant : 13th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects (2021) | Tuesday, March 16, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Operating Grant : CIHR Network for Emerging Variants Research | Thursday, February 18, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Operating Grant : Health System Impact Fellowship - National Cohort Retreat | Tuesday, March 9, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Operating Grant : HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research | Tuesday, April 27, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Operating Grant : Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) 2021 | Tuesday, March 2, 2021 |
| SickKids Foundation/CIHR | Operating Grant : New Investigator Grants in Child and Youth Health (2021) | Tuesday, April 20, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Operating Grant : SARS-CoV-2 variants supplement: COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity | Tuesday, February 23, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Other : CIHR-CEPI Leadership Award for Vaccine Research | Tuesday, April 20, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Other : Hepatitis C Research | Tuesday, June 1, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Other : Planning and Dissemination Grants – ICS | Friday, December 31, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Other : Summer Program in Aging | Thursday, February 25, 2021 |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Partnership Engage Grants | Monday, March 15, 2021 |
| Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | Pediatric Networks for the Human Cell Atlas | Tuesday, March 30, 2021 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | Phase II of the Canada Learning Bond Grants and Contributions Pilot Project | Wednesday, March 17, 2021 |
| The Wenner-Gren Foundation | Post-Ph.D. Research Grants | Saturday, May 1, 2021 |
| Bell | Post-Secondary Fund | Friday, February 26, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Project Grant: Spring 2021 | Thursday, March 4, 2021 |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative | Sunday, August 1, 2021 |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative | Saturday, May 1, 2021 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | Sectoral Initiatives Program | Thursday, March 4, 2021 |
| Ministry of Colleges and Universities | Skills Development Fund | Sunday, February 28, 2021 |
| Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | Smart Farming Innovations for Small-Scale Producers | Thursday, February 25, 2021 |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | SSHRC Impact Awards | Thursday, April 1, 2021 |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | SSHRC Partnership Grants - Stage 1 | Wednesday, February 10, 2021 |
| Stratas Foundation | Stratas Foundation 2021 Winter Award | Sunday, February 28, 2021 |
| GlycoNet | Strategic Initiatives | Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Team Grant : Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness | Wednesday, May 26, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Team Grant : E-Rare-5 Joint Transnational Call | Tuesday, February 16, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Team Grant : Food Security and Climate Change in the Canadian North | Tuesday, April 27, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Team Grant : Indigenous Gender and Wellness Team Grant | Tuesday, June 22, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Team Grant : Indigenous Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative Cohort Research Study (I-HeLTI) | Wednesday, June 9, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Team Grant : Indirect Socio-Economic Burden of Inherited Diseases | Tuesday, April 13, 2021 |
| Gairdner Foundation | The Canada Gairdner International Awards | Thursday, October 1, 2020 |
| Gairdner Foundation | The John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award | Thursday, October 1, 2020 |
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | The NSERC Donna Strickland Prize for Societal Impact of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research | Thursday, April 1, 2021 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Training Grant : Health Research Training Platform (2021/22 Pilot) | Wednesday, April 21, 2021 |
| GlycoNet | Translational Grants | Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
| Canadian Blood Services | Winter 2021 Kenneth J. Fyke Award Program | Friday, March 19, 2021 |