2025 Innovation and Implementation Program

How to Apply: 

View the Call for Proposals to learn more about this program and how to apply.

Brain Canada is proud to support Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN) for the 2025 Innovation and Implementation Programs.

 These programs will fund research focused on improving the lives of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families across Canada.

External Deadline: 
Friday, October 3, 2025
Agency: 
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

OECD Cooperative Research Program - Call for Applications

How to Apply: 

The 2026 call of the OECD Co-operative Research Program in Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems - is now open.  The deadline is September 10 September 2025.

There are two streams: 

(a) Events (Conferences, Workshops, Symposiums) and 

(b) Individual Travel Fellowships (6 to 26 weeks) to another member country (see the list of 30 participating countries)

There are three interdisciplinary research themes:

Theme 1: Managing natural capital to help ensure the availability and quality of natural resources.

Theme 2: Strengthening resilience in the face of multiple risks in a connected world to help anticipate, pre-empt, and cope with potential and real impacts on agricultural systems and food security. 

Theme 3: Transformational technologies and innovation to make it possible to achieve progressive changes.

For more information, see the program website and attached brochure.  Successful applications from previous years are available on the website.

For assistance with applications, please contact Jill Sherman, intl.research@lakeheadu.ca

External Deadline: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

NATO Defense College (NDC) Fellowship

How to Apply: 

MINDS has partnered with the NATO Defense College (NDC), located in Rome, Italy, to offer members of the Canadian defence and security expert community an opportunity to conduct a five-month fellowship, from March to July each year, at the College as part of the NDC Research Division. The selected Fellow will receive a CAN$100,000 grant to cover all expenses related to this opportunity.

External Deadline: 
Monday, July 14, 2025
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

PhD Students and Early Career Academics Research Grant Programme

How to Apply: 

The objectives of the programme are as follows: 

• Support PhD Students and Early Career Academics and foster excellence in research on any aspect of the Olympic phenomenon with a humanities and/or social sciences perspective. Project proposals dealing with any aspect related to the Olympic Movement and/or the Olympic Games will be considered. 
• Facilitate a research and study visit at the Olympic Studies Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland (the Olympic Capital), and the consultation of the OSC’s collections (including primary sources and the IOC historical archives). 
• Support the next generation of scholars in the field of Olympic studies. 
External Deadline: 
Monday, September 22, 2025
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Doctoral
Research

Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants

How to Apply: 

The objective of Idea to Innovation (I2I) grants is to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology originating from the university and college sector, and to promote its transfer to a new or established Canadian company. I2I grants provide funding to college and university faculty members to support research and development projects with recognized technology transfer potential. This is achieved through defined phases by providing crucial assistance in the early stages of technology validation and market connection.

External Deadline: 
Monday, September 22, 2025
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

Forest Sector Investment and Innovation Program

How to Apply: 

The Forest Sector Investment and Innovation Program provides funding for strategic investments in the forest sector that:

  • enhance competitiveness
  • support new market access
  • provide benefits to Ontario’s broader forest sector
  • strengthen regional economies

Support is available under two project categories:

  • business projects
  • collaboration projects
External Deadline: 
Friday, September 19, 2025
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

Caribou Conservation Stewardship Program

How to Apply: 

The Caribou Conservation Stewardship Program supports projects that maintain and recover populations of Boreal Caribou in Ontario. The Caribou Conservation Stewardship Program is part of the Species Conservation Program.

The program will provide funding towards conservation activities including on-the-ground habitat restoration and protection monitoring, science and research, to:

  • non-profit organizations
  • Indigenous communities
  • other groups that support caribou conservation
External Deadline: 
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

Aid to Scholarly Journals

How to Apply: 

Aid to Scholarly Journals grants support Canadian scholarly dissemination by offering a contribution to enable journals to explore innovative activities as well as to help them to defray the costs associated with publishing scholarly articles, digital publishing and journal distribution on Canadian not-for-profit platforms.

External Deadline: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

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