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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 31-May-2020)

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

• Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship

• Mitacs Accelerate & SOSCIP (Posted 04-Feb-2021)

• Mitacs and Own the Podium (OTP) (Posted 25-Feb-2021)

• Pfizer Global Medical Grants – 2021 Global ANGPTL3 ASPIRE (Posted 18-Feb-2021)

• Pfizer & Prostate Cancer Foundation (PFC) – PCF-Pfizer Health Equity Challenge Awards (Posted 26-Feb-2021)

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

Major funding programs

• Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR)
• Canada Research Chairs (CRC)
• Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
• Communitech DATA.BASE program
• 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

• Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology Seed Funding

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

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

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

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

• Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation Grants

• Waterloo Interdisciplinary Trailblazer Fund

• Waterloo Research Incentive Fund (CIHR)

• Waterloo Research Incentive Fund (NSERC)

• University of Waterloo Gender Equity Research Grants