This AO aims to offer under-represented groups an opportunity to increase their level of applied knowledge in space science and technology and promote their professional development in order to increase equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in Canada's space workforce.
This award recognizes a young individual (student, postdoctoral fellow, researcher, entrepreneur, etc.) under the age of 35 who proposes an innovative and compelling evidence-based policy that will make a positive difference to Canadians. This award is designed not only to highlight innovative, evidence-driven policy ideas by policy students and young professionals, but also to encourage young people not currently studying, or working on, public policy to share their policy ideas.
Eligible recipients include all young Canadian residents under 35, regardless of their field of study or work.
Learning to manage stress in demanding situations is central to Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) operational readiness, effectiveness, and sustainment. The Road to Mental Readiness (R2MR) program provides foundational knowledge and practical skills to support mental health, resilience, and performance. Advances in immersive and digitally enabled technologies now provide opportunities to complement classroom-based approaches through virtual stress exposure training scenarios that simulate operational demands and psychologically meaningful stressors. Despite increasing interest in immersive training approaches, there remains limited guidance regarding which scenario attributes and combinations of attributes contribute most effectively to realistic, relevant, and meaningful stress exposure training experiences. Greater understanding is needed regarding fidelity, stressor characteristics, pacing, contextual realism, and other design considerations that may influence training engagement and perceived operational relevance. Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) invites proposals that advance understanding of virtual stress exposure training (SET) scenario design in support of future R2MR modernization efforts. Applicants are encouraged to propose innovative and evidence-informed approaches aligned with the objectives outlined below.
This funding opportunity seeks proposals that contribute to the identification, organization, and evaluation of key attributes relevant to virtual SET scenarios in support of R2MR training objectives. Proposed research may examine emerging evidence and practices related to SET, simulation, immersive technologies, and related domains, with the goal of identifying factors that contribute to perceived realism, engagement, operational relevance, and training usefulness. Applicants are encouraged to develop evidence-informed frameworks or conceptual approaches that characterize and organize relevant scenario features, while also considering methodologies for future evaluation, including survey-based, experimental, or user-centred approaches. The overall intent of this opportunity is to support research that may inform future virtual SET evaluation, design, and development activities aligned with R2MR modernization efforts.
These grants support the development of partnered research and related activities in the social sciences and humanities.
If you are interested in submitting a Partnership Development Grant proposal, please contact Nicole Westlund Stewart,
Research and Knowledge Mobilization Facilitator (Social Sciences and Humanities), at sshrc.research@lakeheadu.ca by September 16, 2026 to indicate your interest in applying.
The call is now open for International Interdisciplinary Research Projects under the British Academy. Applications must be submitted by an eligible UK-based PI in the social sciences and humanities, but must have international partners and demonstrate collaboration across disciplines. Interdisciplinary projects (including both SHAPE and STEM disciplines) on the theme of "Mobilities" will be accepted. Mobilities should address either "People, Materials and Things" or "Ideas, Narratives, and Innovation." Maximum awards are up to £ 300,000 over 2 years, and pay up to 80% of total project costs (inclusive of indirect costs). Interested Lakehead researchers should contact their UK-based colleagues, and intl.research@lakeheadu.ca for support at Lakehead.
The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to:
Young people across Canada are struggling with their mental health with reported increases in anxiety, depression and overall mental or psychological distress. In 2024, the Government of Canada established the Youth Mental Health Fund (YMHF) to create lasting and meaningful improvements in the mental health of young people and their families through increased access to evidence-based mental health services. There is an urgent need to bridge the gap between research and practice and to develop prevention and intervention strategies that effectively respond to local needs, with a focus on First Nations, Inuit and Métis (Indigenous) Peoples and equity-denied populations. Although a number of Evidence Based Practices (EBPs) are shown to improve access, quality of services and outcomes in youth mental health, it is unclear to what extent and with what fidelity these are implemented in Canada, how well they adapt to continuously evolving psychosocial contexts and new technologies, including e-Mental Health and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled tools, as well as how well they respond to the growing need for integrated care, prevention and culturally relevant approaches.
The current funding opportunity aims to support high-quality evaluation and/or implementation science research on youth mental health interventions, as they are being scaled through the YMHF, and through other initiatives, across the research-to-scale continuum in Canada. For evaluation research, the focus is on generating robust evidence on feasibility, efficacy, or effectiveness of evidence-informed interventions adapted for new contexts or with under-studied populations using rigorous methodological designs. For implementation science research, the focus is on interventions with established efficacy or effectiveness and are ready to be sustained, optimized or scaled out/up. This research will examine strategies to improve or maintain outcomes, while optimizing adoption, integration, scale-out/up, sustainability and equity across real-world environments.
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.
