The Ship Time program allows those holding an NSERC Discovery Grant (DG) to apply for additional funds to access vessels in support of their research programs.
The CIHR Institute Summer Programs 2027 are intensive 5-day capacity-building programs that aim to provide graduate and post-graduate trainees with advanced training that crosses disciplines, offers networking opportunities, and disseminates best practices in research. Each program brings together up to 40 research trainees and numerous academic mentors to participate in interactive learning sessions over the course of one week.
Note that each of the participating Institutes has their own relevant 2027 topic area, dates, locations, and other specific requirements, which are outlined in the Sponsor Description section of this funding opportunity.
All trainees who wish to attend a 2027 CIHR Institute Summer Program must apply through this funding opportunity. Trainees are required to attend all program sessions and networking events, with some events occurring in the evening and/or early morning. A timetable will be provided to participants upon acceptance and prior to the training program.
Eligible Canadian university researchers may apply to NSERC for funds to collaborate with international university researchers on innovative natural sciences and engineering research projects in areas of global importance. Funding is awarded to projects of high scientific merit that bring together complementary expertise and demonstrate clear benefits to Canada.
The Canadian and international teams must jointly prepare an application that clearly describes both teams and their respective roles in the project. The international collaborator must submit the application to their national funding agency for peer review and funding consideration. If successful, the Canadian team may apply to NSERC for funding to support Canadian research activities no later than 120 days after the international collaborator receives the official international award letter.
Deadline: Thursday, September 10, CEST
The OECD Co-operative Research Programme (CRP) offers two streams of funding to researchers in participating countries: Individual Research Travel Fellowships, and Events (Conferences, Workshops, Symposiums). The CRP currently has 33 participating countries(now including Brazil and Ukraine). Travel Fellowships provide transportation and subsistence funding from 6-26 weeks in any other member country. Event sponsorship funds international events to inform policy makers, industry, and the academic world about innovative research, scientific developments, and new opportunities. Research topics supported by the CEST include:
• Sustainable and resilient productivity growth and food security and nutrition
• Climate risks, reducing emissions from agriculture and food systems, carbon sequestration in agriculture, forestry and land use
• Halting and reversing forest loss and land degradation
• Reducing the negative environmental impacts of livestock production and practices harmful to animal health and welfare, investigating the positive contribution livestock can make to soil quality and management, biodiversity and livelihoods
• Biodiversity, enhancing ecosystem services
• Improving soil health and water and air quality, including through agro-ecological and other innovative, context specific approaches
• Innovations in the transfer and development of agricultural knowledge, including Indigenous and traditional knowledge
• Fisheries and aquaculture productivity, sustainability and resilience
For assistance at Lakehead, contact Jill Sherman, intl.research@lakeheadu.ca
The international NSERC–National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) call for proposals on quantum technologies is officially launched (see the news release). This call aims to leverage the complementary interests and research expertise of Canadian and Korean academic researchers to support bilateral research projects in quantum science and technologies. Please refer to the call webpage for more information.
If you are a Canadian university researcher eligible to receive NSERC funds, you can apply independently or as a team with co-applicants who are also eligible academic researchers. Your project must include at least one collaborator based at a Korean academic research organisation eligible to receive funding from the NRF.
For this collaborative call for proposals, non-academic collaborators and partner organizations are not permitted.
The Korean project lead is responsible for submitting the full application package, including the collaborative Korea–Canada research proposal, to the NRF by October 7, 2026, before 6:00 pm (KST). The Canadian project lead must submit a simplified application on behalf of the Canadian research team to NSERC by October 7, 2026, before 8:00 pm (ET).
Nominations are open for the 2026 Mitacs Innovation Awards. The awards recognize Mitacs-supported innovators whose work is helping turn research, talent, and partnership into real-world impact for Canada. Self and peer nominations are accepted across all award categories. Submit a nomination by September 8, 2026.
The Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, in association with Harvard Medical School, recognizes and honors one or more scientists, physicians and researchers whose scientific achievements have led to the prevention, cure, or treatment of human disorders or for seminal research that holds great promise to change our ability to treat disease.
If you are interested in being nominated for this award, please contact the Office of Research Services (aklymenk@lakeheadu.ca) no later than October 1, 2026.
International Research Training Groups (IRTGs), a funding opportunity of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), are structured doctoral programs run by German universities in conjunction with institutions abroad. They promote systematic research cooperation through joint research and qualification programs, as well as cooperative, cross-border supervision of doctoral researchers from both partner groups and longer-term, coordinated and reciprocal research visits by doctoral researchers at the respective partner institutions.
The DFG and SSHRC are offering this joint initiative under the IRTG funding opportunity. An IRTG is run by two teams of participating researchers, one in Germany and one in Canada, respectively. German-Canadian IRTG applications must be prepared jointly before being submitted by the German host university to the DFG; they are not submitted to SSHRC. The two-stage assessment process consists of a draft proposal stage followed by a full proposal stage for those invited to proceed.
SSHRC will support one meritorious German-Canadian IRTG, covering costs related to Canada’s participation in the research training group. The Canadian host institution for the selected German-Canadian IRTG will be required to submit administrative documentation to SSHRC prior to the grant being awarded. SSHRC will issue two grants. The first will be for five years. If a renewal proposal, submitted to the DFG prior to the end of the first funding period, is successful, a second grant will be issued for four years. The maximum total funding duration is, therefore, nine years.
Interested faculty members are asked to notify the Office of Research Services (sshrc.research@lakeheadu.ca) of their interest in this program by November 1).
