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Calls for proposals

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

• C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute: First Call for Proposals – Mitigation of COVID-19 and Future Pandemics (Posted April 9, 2020)

• Experiment.com crowdfunding opportunity

• FACEBOOK Research: Economic Impact of Digital Technologies (Posted April 28, 2020)

• FACEBOOK Research: Explorations of Trust in AR, VR, and Smart Devices (28-Apr-2020)

• FACEBOOK Research: Foundational Integrity Research: Misinformation and Polarization (Posted April 28, 2020)

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

• Microsoft: COVID-19 Azure Grants through Microsoft AI for Health (Posted April 9, 2020)

• Mitacs and Age-Well NCE Inc. - #Covid19Canada (Posted April 15, 2020)

• Mitacs Accelerate & #COVID19Canada (Posted March 26, 2020)

• Mitacs Accelerate - Special SME-Partnered Project Funding - Non-Covid-19 (Posted May 6, 2020) 

• Mitacs Accelerate and Kids Brain Health Network - #Covid19Canada (Posted May 6, 2020)

• Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship

• Mitacs Elevate

• SOSCIP Collaborative Projects

• SOSCIP COVID-19 Response: Fast-Tracking Access to SOSCIP'S High-Performance Computing (HPC) Platforms for COVID-19 Related Research And Development (Posted April 23, 2020)

• Vale COVID-19 Challenge (Posted April 6, 2020)

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)

• University of Waterloo Gender Equity Research Grants