Grants & Fellowships
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Internal Competitions:
- Innovation Award - Early Career Researcher
- Innovation Award - Established Researcher
- Graduate Mentorship Award
- Lassonde Media Outreach Award
Guidelines and Nomination form
LASSONDE INNOVATION FUND
The Lassonde Innovation Fund provides seed funding to support new, innovative, and risky research projects that may lead to future funding applications.
How much funding is available?
$25,000 plus up to $12,500 for projects that include domestic training only
Details are available here.
News:
- Guidelines for COVID-19 in research
- Update to Alliance Grant Funding
Important Links:
- Lassonde Research Support Team Contact Information
- ORS now accepts electronic checklists and applications
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
***New integrated calendar of agency and interagency funding opportunities***
Guidelines on including COVID-19 in all NSERC applications.
NSERC grant extensions
Investing in Wildland Fire Research to Protect Canadians
NSERC
Alliance Grant Program
Value: $20,000 to $1 million per year
Duration: 1 to 5 years
Deadline: Rolling
New - Now with partnership options from the Ontario Centre for Excellence
NSERC
CREATE
Value: Up to $1.65M
Duration: Up to 6 years
Deadline: NOI are due at Lassonde by February 25, 2021.
A separate call was sent with deadlines
All funding calls can be found within this Excel spreadsheet, updated regularly by ORS. Upcoming deadlines include:
CIHR Project Grant - LOI deadline March 4, 2021
CIHR Training Grant: Health Research Training Platform - LOI deadline April 21, 2021
SSHRC
Connection Grants
Join with Initiative of Digitial Citizen Research and Department of Canadian Heritage
Value: Events at $7K - $25K; Outreach at $7K - $50K
Deadline: To LSE, April 19, 2021; To Agency, May 1, 2021
NOTE: York University has an internal Mitacs representative - Rachel Sung. If you are interested in applying for Mitacs funding or need further information, please contact Rachel.
Mitacs
Mitacs Accelerate
Value: Funding starts at $15,000 (partner organization contribution starts at $7,500)
Deadline: Apply anytime.
Mitacs
SOSCIP Cleantech Call for Proposals
Value: $15,000 for every 4-6 months with $7,500+HST from industry and $7,500 from Mitacs
Duration: 6-18 months. Applicants interested in a longer project duration can contact SOSCIP Partnerships Officer or Mitacs Business Development Representatives.
Deadline: To LSE, March 17, 2021 | To Agency, March 31, 2021
ADDITIONAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Québec Secretariat for Canadian Relations
Stream 3: Partnership Program
Value: Up to $20,000 for 1-year projects, Up to $40,000 for 2-year projects, Up to $60,000 for 3-year projects
Duration: 1-3 years
Deadline: To LSE, February 17, 2021 | To Agency, March 3, 2021
Academics Without Borders (AWB)
Deadline: To York International and LSE, March 4, 2021 | To Agency, March 8, 2021
Please submit your project proposals (see pages 4-5 in the document linked above for detailed requirements) to York International by email to lukeli@yorku.ca and include “AWB call for proposal” in the subject line by Thursday, March 4, 2021. York International, as York’s AWB Network contact, will review proposals and work with applicants to submit complete applications to AWB by the first stage submission deadline on Monday, March 8, 2021.
American Chemical Society
Petroleum Research Fund
Value: Up to $110,000
Duration: 2 years
Deadline: To LSE, February 26, 2021 | To Agency, March 12, 2021
International Development Research Centre
Value: Up to $1,000,000 Canadian
Duration: 3 years
Expression of Interest Deadline: To LSE, March 5, 2021 | To Agency, March 19, 2021
Status of Women’s Feminist Response and Recovery Fund
Value: Up to $700,000 depending on the project reach
Duration: 3 years
Deadline: NOI due to York University, March 1, 2021 | To Agency, March 25, 2021
Eligible organizations may submit a maximum of one application. Therefore, VPRI will undertake an internal selection process to determine which application will be forwarded to the agency. Interested applicants must notify their Faculty Research Office and the Office of Research Services (Emma Doran – edoran@yorku.ca) as soon as possible about their intention to apply and for details about the Notice of Intent (NOI) required for VPRI’s internal selection process.
The Einstein Foundation
Awards in Promoting Quality in Research
Value: €100k - €200k.
Deadline: To LSE, March 17, 2021 | To Agency, March 31, 2021
The J.M. Kaplan Fund
The J.M.K. Innovation Prize
Value: $175,000
Duration: 3 years
Deadline: To LSE, April 16, 2021 | To Agency, April 30, 2021
Canadian Space Agency
Data and Sample Mining (DM) or Research Models (RM)
Value: Topic 1 (Data and Sample mining (DM)) - up to $70,000 for a maximum duration of one (1) year.
Value: Topic 2 (Research Model (RM)) - up to $150,000 for a maximum duration of two (2) years.
Deadline: To LSE, May 21, 2021 | To Agency, June 4, 2021
Ontario Centre for Excellence
Voucher for Innovation Productivity (VIP) - Now with NSERC and Mitacs partners
Value: $20,000 to 150,000 per year
Duration: 6 months to 24 months
Deadline: Rolling
Ontario Centre for Excellence
ENCQOR - for 5G technologies
For full information visit the website
Streams include 5G SME Technology Development Program | Digital Innovation Hubs | 5G Demonstration Program | 5G TalentEdge Internships
Ontario Centre for Excellence
Autonomous Vehicle Integration Network
Streams include R&D Partnership Fund | TalentEdge Internships | TalentEdge Fellowships | WinterTech Development Program