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Calls for proposals

• Agilent Early Career Professor Award (2020)

• BlackBerry Call for Expressions of Interest

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

• Quantum Quest Seed Fund (QQSF)

• Experiment.com crowdfunding opportunity

• facebook research: Role of Applied Cryptography in a Privacy-Focused Advertising Ecosystem request for proposals

• facebook research: Towards On-Device AI request for proposals

• Imperial Oil - University Research Awards

• Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship

• Mitacs Elevate

• Mitacs Globalink Research Award

• Rogers Expression of Interest and Q&A on January 31 with SVP Tech Strategy, Innovation, and Partnership

• SOSCIP Collaborative Projects

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

• Bordeaux-Waterloo Research Grants

• 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