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A new searchable database with over 28,000 active funding opportunities from sponsors in all disciplines is now available. 

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Calls for proposals

• Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) – Tailings Clay Challenge

• Experiment.com crowdfunding opportunity

• Facebook - COVID-19 Symptom Survey – Request for Data Access (Posted May 31, 2020)

• Google: Apply for Google Cloud research credits (Posted April 17, 2020)

• Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship

• Mitacs Accelerate Entrepreneur

• Mitacs Accelerate International

• Mitacs Accelerate Industrial Postdoc (Posted June 3, 2021)

• Mitacs - Business Strategic Internship (BSI) (Update March 7, 2023) 

• Mitacs Elevate (updated May 31, 2023)

• NRC-MITACS-RWTH Globalink Research Award Program (Posted April 21, 2021)

• SOSCIP: Call for Proposals - projects related to AI & Data Science (Posted 18-Feb-2021)

• Twitter - Twitter Academic Research Product Track (Posted June 22, 2021)

Major funding programs

• Canada Research Chairs (CRC)
• Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
• Early Researcher Award (ERA)
• Government research contracts
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)
• Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)
• Ontario Research Fund
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Selected non-profit funding opportunities

• Health-related
• Other

International

• International funding opportunities

Internally funded awards

• Bordeaux-Waterloo Joint Grant 2023

• Bob Harding and Lois Claxton Humanities and Social Sciences Endowment Fund

• Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology Seed Funding

• Graham Seed Fund

• International Research Partnership Grants (IRPG, IRPG-EU, IRPG-China)

• UW Momentum Fund Pilot (2023)

• UW/SSHRC Explore Grant Program (formerly Seed Grant)

• UW/SSHRC Exchange Grant Program (includes former Travel Grant)

• Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation Grants

• Waterloo Research Incentive Fund (NSERC)

• Waterloo —Technion Cooperation 2023

• WIN-Brainport Eindhoven Innovation Partnerships Program (Posted May 10, 2021)