Find funding

Calls for proposals

• Experiment.com crowdfunding opportunity

• 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) 

• NRC-MITACS-RWTH Globalink Research Award Program (Posted April 21, 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 Centre of Innovation (OCI)
• Ontario Research Fund
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

International

• International funding opportunities

Internally funded awards

• Bob Harding and Lois Claxton Humanities and Social Sciences Endowment Fund (Updated Sep-2025)

• Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology Seed Funding

• CIHR Internal Support (Updated Sep-2025)

• Graham Seed Fund

• International Research Partnership Grants (IRPG, IRPG-EU, IRPG-China) (Updated 14-Feb-2024)

• UW/SSHRC Explore Grant Program (formerly Seed Grant) (Updated Sep-2025)

• UW/SSHRC Exchange Grant Program (includes former Travel Grant) (Updated Sep-2025)