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Calls for proposals

• Major Science Initiatives (MSI) Fund

• Bayer Crop Science Grants4Ag Program (Posted July 22, 2021)

• Clean Resource Innovation Network (posted April 21, 2021)

• NDRIO-Portage COVID-19 Data Curation Funding (posted April 21, 2021)

• 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)

• FACEBOOK Research - 2021 Networking: Internet and Web Services (Posted April 19, 2021)

• FACEBOOK Research - 2021 Instagram request for proposals on safety and community health (Posted June 22, 2021)

• FACEBOOK Research - Agent-based user interaction simulation to find and fix integrity and privacy issues (Posted June 22, 2021)

• FACEBOOK Research - Engineering Approaches to Responsible Neural Interface Design (Posted June 22, 2021)

• FACEBOOK Research - Next-generation Data Infrastructure (Posted May 10, 2021)

• FACEBOOK Research - Privacy Enhancing Technologies (Posted March 30, 2021)

• FACEBOOK Research - Sample-efficient Sequential Bayesian Decision Making (Posted March 30, 2021)

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

• Innovosource BRIDGE University Partnering System (UPS) - Philips Image-guided Therapies (Posted March 29, 2021)

• INVOAIT - INOVAIT Spring 2021 Funding Round (Posted March 29, 2021)

• Merck EMD 2021 Research Grants (Posted May 21, 2021)

• Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship

• Mitacs Accelerate Entrepreneur

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

• Mitacs Elevate (Posted May 10, 2022)

• Mitacs - Business Strategic Internship (BSI) (Posted July 20, 2021)

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

• Oldcastle Infrastructure - Removing nitrogen from urban stormwater runoff (Posted April 5, 2021)

• Pfizer Global Medical Grants – 2021 Global ANGPTL3 ASPIRE (Posted February 18, 2021)

• Pfizer Global Medical Grants - BRAF-mutation Biomarker Testing in Colorectal Cancer and Melanoma (Posted June 22, 2021)

• Pfizer Global Medical Grants - Patient Preference Database Blueprint (Posted June 22, 2021)

• Pfizer Global Medical Grants – Pre-Clinical & Translational Research in Multiple Myeloma (Posted March 30, 2021)

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

• Reckitt - Alternative disinfectants for home use (Posted 05-Apr-2021)

• SONY RESEARCH AWARD PROGRAM – Faculty Innovation Award (Posted July 16, 2021)

• SONY RESEARCH AWARD PROGRAM – Focused Research Award (Posted July 16, 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

• 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

• CIHR Research Incentive Fund (RIF)

• 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 (NSERC)

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