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

We are mainly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as with population-focused fields, including epidemiology and public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems.

Global Affairs Canada has opened its call for international scholarship applications for the 2025-26 academic year.  Researchers may be contacted by students from eligible countries seeking a supervisor for a research stay. 

There are scholarships for STUDY (usually undergrads) and RESEARCH (usually graduate students). Students cannot apply directly and must be nominated by their home institutions; applications are submitted by Lakehead University, with selection decisions made by Global Affairs Canada.  

Please note that visiting research students are expected to work on their research full-time for 4-6 months under the Lakehead researcher's supervision.

ELAP - Emerging Leaders of the Americas Internal Deadline: March 6 (External March 18)

• Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos;
• Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama;
• North America: Mexico;
• South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.

SICS - Study in Canada Scholarship - Internal Deadline: March 6 (External March 18)

• Asia: Bangladesh, Nepal, Taiwan;
• Europe: Türkiye, Ukraine;
• Middle East and North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia;
• Sub-Saharan Africa: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda.

IMPORTANT - The students' home institution may have internal selection processes/competitions and earlier deadlines as well.

To be eligible, study students must be from institutions where Lakehead has an MOU / Exchange agreement. For research students, an MOU is not mandatory.  In a few cases, an undergrad may be nominated for a research stay if the Lakehead researcher has a genuine collaboration with the student's home institution.

For questions, please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

Global Affairs Canada has opened its call for applications to its international scholarship programs for the 2025-26 academic year.  Researchers may be contacted by students from eligible countries seeking a supervisor for a research stay. 

There are scholarships for STUDY (usually undergrads) and RESEARCH (usually graduate students). Students cannot apply directly and must be nominated by their home institutions; applications are submitted by Lakehead University, with selection decisions made by Global Affairs Canada.

If researchers are interested in hosting a visiting research student and have research collaborators in any of the eligible countries, they are encouraged to reach out and invite applications from their students. Please note that VRS are expected to work on their research full-time during their stay, under the Lakehead researcher's supervision.

SEED - Canada-ASEAN Scholarships and Educational Exchange for Development - Internal Deadline March 19 (External March 31).

Please note that this year, the SEED program has changed - maximum length of stay is 4 months and must start no later than October 1, 2025.

• for citizens of ASEAN member states (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR)), Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, or Vietnam)

IMPORTANT - The students' home institution may have internal selection processes/competitions and earlier deadlines as well.

To be eligible, study students must be from institutions where Lakehead has an MOU / Exchange agreement. For research students, an MOU is not mandatory.  In a few cases, an undergrad may be nominated for a research stay if the Lakehead researcher has a genuine collaboration with the student's home institution.

For questions, please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

We are excited to launch a call for applications to our newest iteration of the Catalyst program. As in past years, Catalyst provides established nonprofit organizations that are working to advance access to justice in Ontario with core operating funding to improve their ability to deliver programs and services, and to respond to emerging needs.

For this call, grants are available for up to $1M to be spent over a period of 3 years, from mid-2025 to mid-2028. Among other criteria, an applicant's core work must advance access to justice for the people of Ontario through information or services that help people understand the law and use it to improve their lives. Also, an applicant must have appropriate legal expertise and experience working in the area(s) for which funding is being requested.

How to apply

Applications are being accepted through a 2-step process. First, interested organizations are invited to submit the Eligibility Screening Form by February 28. Before applying, please carefully review the criteria and frequently asked questions. Visit the Catalyst Call for Applications webpage for details.

Universities are encouraged to submit only one Eligibility Screening Form. If you are interested in applying, please send an email to Nicole Westlund Stewart (sshrc.research@lakeheadu.ca) by February 11, 2025.

As organizations can only submit up to three nominations per award category, interested applicants are asked to contact Dr. Batia Stolar, Associate VP, Research & Graduate Studies, at bstolar@lakeheadu.ca by February 15, 2025 to indicate their interest.

The Canadian Cancer Society’s Research Training Awards (RTA) program aims to support growth and innovation in the next generation of diverse cancer researchers across Canada. Recognizing that marginalized groups face structural and systemic barriers to inclusion and are underrepresented in the field of cancer research, CCS specifically invites Black and Indigenous Master’s trainees to submit applications for the 2025 training award competition in order to positively alter the research landscape.

The RTA-M  (Master’s) competition was co-developed and revised with guidance from CCS advisors, including Black and Indigenous community members, and is continuously reviewed to monitor and improve its impact. This program focuses on three main goals: building capacity, funding a diverse group of trainees and encouraging a comprehensive training experience.

These 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.

Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, documentaries or other events or outreach activities that facilitate:

• disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the social sciences and humanities;
• scholarly exchanges between those working in the social sciences and humanities and those working in other research fields;
• intersectoral exchanges between academic researchers in the social sciences and humanities and researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors; and/or
• international research collaboration and scholarly exchanges with researchers, students and non-academic partners from other countries.

The Weston Family Foundation, through the Weston Brain Institute (the “Institute”), is committed to catalyzing and scaling science-based approaches to significantly improve the health and well-being of Canadians.
 
We are pleased to announce the launch of our flagship Rapid Response program, designed to spark the development of novel therapeutics and tools for neurodegenerative diseases of aging (NDAs).  

Eligible projects should meet the following criteria:

• Be translational research that can accelerate therapeutic or tool development for NDAs, as defined by the Institute.
  • Therapeutics should address unmet needs in the prevention, treatment and/or symptomatic management of NDAs.
  • Tools should address challenges in translational research to accelerate the development and/or clinical implementation of therapeutics for NDAs (e.g., biomarkers, drug delivery systems).
• Have preliminary data to support the hypothesis and feasibility of the project.

Funding per project: Up to $300,000 over 18-24 months.

Important dates:

• Program information session:  February 11, 2025 (register here).
• Letter of Intent deadline: March 18, 2025 (Apply here: https://westonfdn.smartsimple.ca/) 
• Award announcement: November 2025