The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Establish a national network of AMR researchers, knowledge users from multiple sectors including human health, animal health, agriculture and agri-food, and the environment to advance One Health AMR research, improve the health of people in Canada, and identify opportunities for leveraging international partnerships and aligning with domestic and global AMR and One Health initiatives
• Build and strengthen capacity for One Health AMR research in Canada, including Indigenous-led and community-based research, by increasing regional coordination within and across communities and sectors and providing training and mentorship for trainees and early career researchers across disciplines
• Enhance knowledge mobilization and policy linkages by creating evidence-based actionable guidelines and policies, and promoting partnerships with government, industry, healthcare, people with lived experience, and community organizations to improve the health of people in Canada.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields, who, together, may change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Between Fall 2023 and Summer 2026, we will dedicate $1 million to supporting small, early-stage grants of $2,500–$50,000 toward achieving this goal.

NSERC's Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program supports the training and mentoring of teams of highly qualified students and postdoctoral fellows from Canada and abroad through the development of innovative training programs that:

• encourage collaborative and integrative approaches between large and medium or small sized institutions to address significant scientific challenges
• facilitate the transition of new researchers from trainees to productive employees in the Canadian workforce

For this year's competition, it is anticipated the NSERC CREATE program will include both the regular and international streams (please note that it is anticipated that as in the past, the international stream is linked to collaborating with researchers in Germany as well as the German research foundation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)).* 

Institutions are all given an allotment of regular CREATE LOIs (the international stream will not count towards this allotment) that they can submit and that go directly to the full application stage.  Lakehead has one regular stream LOI in its allotment. However, when an institution submits a number of LOIs greater than its NSERC program allotment,  their LOIs will be evaluated by NSERC to determine which LOI will advance to the application stage. 

NEW - For the 2027 competition, NSERC will fund one additional CREATE initiative through quantum funding announced in Budget 2025 as part of the upcoming Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS). This initiative aims to advance the strategy’s workforce development priorities by supporting training opportunities that result in skilled and technologically proficient research trainees in areas including, but not limited to, quantum communications, quantum sensing, quantum materials, quantum computing, and quantum software. Applications will be evaluated through the normal CREATE peer review process, but applications should include "Quantum" in the title. LOIs submitted to the Quantum call are not included in each university’s allotment of LOIs advancing to the application stage. Each university can submit up to one LOI for the Quantum call. If more than one quantum expression of interest is received, an internal competition/review will need to be held to determine which Lakehead quantum LOI is submitted under Lakehead’s quota. All other quantum LOIs will be submitted under Lakehead’s regular stream (see above information).

If you intend to submit an LOI to this program, you  must notify the Office of Research Services (ahacquo1@lakeheadu.ca) by February 13, 2026 of your intention to apply to this opportunity

Given the highly competitive nature of the NSERC CREATE program and the requirement for institutional support, Principal Investigators will be required to work closely with assigned research facilitators from the conceptualization of the project proposal to final submission (this includes seeking support from co-applicant institutions).

The NSERC LOI submission deadline is May 1, 2026, and the full application deadline is September 22, 2026.

More details about the 2027 CREATE competition will be communicated at the information session for potential applicants on February 13, 2026. Updates to the CREATE program website for the 2027 CREATE competition will be posted in February 2026.

*International Research Training Groups (IRTG) – with DFG (Germany)

Submitting an application for the IRTG for a German-Canadian bilateral training program takes time but can be very rewarding, and the CREATE grant can be extended up to 9 years.  However, given the NSERC and DFG timelines, to apply to the NSERC Create competition in 2026, you will need to have an approved pre-proposal to DFG before the LOI deadline.  If you are starting now to develop the DFG proposal, you should expect to apply to the CREATE program next year at the earliest. The steps are:

1. Establish a collaboration with a research university in Germany
2. RECOMMENDED:  Team applies for a DFG grant (matching funds required) to conduct an IRTG preparatory workshop (either in Germany or Canada)
3. Team submits a pre-proposal (DFG calls it a “draft application”) to DFG at any time (no deadline) – review takes several months
4. If the DFG pre-proposal is successful: Submit the LOI to NSERC by the deadline of the next cycle.
5. If the LOI is successful: Submit full proposal to both DFG and NSERC. Both agencies must approve the proposal to be successful.

For this call, NSERC and NSTC will each invest up to CAN$1M, with a maximum of CAN$225,000 per three-year project (annual maximum of CAN$75,000) to support their respective applicants. Applicants must be eligible to receive funds from their respective granting agency (NSERC or NSTC). NSERC will exclusively support eligible Canadian teams, while NSTC will exclusively support teams based in Taiwan. The estimated number of awards is four, and funding will be subject to each agency’s rules and budgetary availability.

Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and engage with participants on research issues they value. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant can often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.

Our grants support and encourage legal writing that is of value to Canadian lawyers, notaries and judges in their day-to-day work in the law and in the administration of justice. Our grants are generally in amounts greater than $5,000 and less than or equal to $15,000.

We provide funds for legal research that falls into three broad categories:

1. Research and writing that emphasizes the statement of existing rules of law, which is often called doctrinal research.
2. Research that relates to the workings of the legal system.
3. Research that relates to developments in fields peripheral to legal doctrine, such as criminology, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and economics, and their relationship to rules of law.

CIHR Institute of Cancer Research & ARCC Research Impact Award and Early Career Researcher Award

The Weston Family Foundation aims to catalyze and scale science-based approaches to significantly improve the health and well-being of Canadians. The Foundation takes a leadership role in tackling large problems that are under-addressed by supporting research that is particularly relevant to the health of Canadians and that empowers Canadians to improve their health and wellbeing. 

The Foundation, through the Weston Brain Institute, is pleased to announce the re-launch of the Rapid Response program with a focus on biomarkers. The Rapid Response 2026: Biomarkers program provides early-stage seed funding to support high-risk, high-reward translational research aimed at accelerating the validation to clinical implementation of biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases of aging (NDAs).