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| Grant Title | Deadline | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - All Programs | No Deadline | The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation offers a wide variety of fellowships and funding opportunities. Virtually all disciplines are eligible. |
| Mobility Program | No Deadline | The Mobility Program is intended to encourage investigators who are within five years of their first appointment after completing their research training or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows... |
| Guest Speaker Support Program | No Deadline | The Guest Speaker Support Program is designed to disseminate knowledge to the Alberta research and science community by offering funding to help bring notable researchers in prion and protein... |
| APRI New Collaborations Program | No Deadline | The New Collaborations program is intended to encourage collaborations between researchers from an Alberta-based institution with researchers from institutions outside Alberta. Qualified... |
| Rare Disease Foundation Micro Grant Program | No Deadline | This organization is comprised of researchers, caregivers, and families, working together to find solutions for children and families affected by rare disease. The microgrant program is offered by... |
| Prairieaction Foundation Grants | No Deadline | Under its CARE Grant Program, the Foundation funds community-based organizations in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan to do research into solutions to violence and abuse. An annual call for letters... |
| Physiotherapy Foundation of Canada Grants | No Deadline | The Physiotherapy Foundation of Canada (PFC) is Canada’s only registered charity dedicated to the funding of physiotherapy research. PFC-funded research creates knowledge that improves the practice... |
| Parks Foundation Calgary Grants | No Deadline | The mission of the Parks Foundation Calgary is to enhance the quality of life of all Calgarians through the development of parks, preservation of river valleys, and support of amateur sport. They... |
| The Muttart Foundation Grants | No Deadline | The OHTN funds research with real-life impact to improve the health and well-being of people with and at risk of HIV. Our research programs fund projects relevant to Ontario’s needs and help create a... |
| McLean Foundation Grants | No Deadline | The foundation makes grants in a wide range of areas, including arts, conservation, education, health and welfare. It maintains a flexible policy, with particular emphasis on projects showing promise... |
| James S McDonnell Foundation Grants | No Deadline | Founded in 1950 by aerospace pioneer James S. McDonnell, the foundation was established to "improve the quality of life," and does so by contributing to the generation of new knowledge by supporting... |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada Grants | No Deadline | The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada's (LLSC's) academic grants support and encourage basic and translational leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma research. LLSC investigators... |
| Krembil Foundation Grants | No Deadline | Grants are focused on helping people through medical research, education and social services. Their primary focus is funding research projects in medicine; particularly those that have difficulty... |
| AGRI Small Grants |
Deadline Passed (May 1, 2020) |
Goals of AGRI: To encourage, foster, and solicit research to better understand the role and impacts of gambling on the individual and society; To ensure research is collaborative and has... |
| Hospital for Sick Children Foundation Grants | No Deadline | We invest our communities' contributions in outstanding paediatric care, research, and education to help children at The Hospital for Sick Children, throughout Canada, and around the world. We offer... |
| Gairdner Foundation Awards | No Deadline | The Gairdner Foundation is a nonprofit corporation devoted to the recognition of outstanding achievement in biomedical research worldwide. The Foundation is not affiliated with any government or... |
| Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grants | No Deadline | Bill and Melinda Gates hope to make an enduring contribution toward increasing access to innovations in education, technology, and global health. More than seventeen billion dollars in endowments... |
| Foundation Fighting Blindness Restore Vision 20/20 Grant | No Deadline | The Foundation Fighting Blindness is a non-profit charitable organization who's mission is to support and promote research directed to finding the causes, treatments and ultimately the cures for... |
| Cures for Kids Grant | No Deadline | Cures for Kids provides funding for research and clinical programs for children with life-threatening illnesses. Grants of between $500 and $2,500 are awarded to qualifying organizations for specific... |
| Max Bell Foundation Grants | No Deadline | Max Bell Foundation encourages the development of innovative ideas that impact public policies and practices with an emphasis on health and wellness, education, and the environment. The foundation... |
| The CHS / Pfizer Care Until Cure Research Program |
Deadline Passed (November 2, 2020) |
This program allows Canadian investigators to conduct research on medical and psychosocial aspects of bleeding disorders, including outcome evaluation. Grants are awarded for clinical research in... |
| CIHR - Planning and Dissemination Grants - ICS | No Deadline | CIHR's mandate is to excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health, more effective health... |
| Alberta MS Network Collaborative Meeting Support | No Deadline | This program is for groups wishing to initiate new MS projects or to work on an ongoing collaboration. For more information please contace info@AlbertaMSNetwork.ca |
| Alberta MS Network Knowledge Translation Program | No Deadline | This program provides support for knowledge translation activities, including interacting with selected patient groups to transmit new knowledge, or to learn of their expectations so that better... |
| Alberta MS Network Guest Speaker Support | No Deadline | Awarded to bring in a visiting speaker to present on an MS relevant topic at a province-wide seminar. Please contact info@AlbertaMSNetwork.ca for more information. |
| Alberta MS Network Trainee Exchange Award | No Deadline | The Alberta MS Network offers funding for MS trainees to travel to a partnering research group to learn MS-relevant practical techniques or to work on a collaborative project. The trip must involve... |
| Alberta MS Network Trainee Travel Award | No Deadline | This award is to help trainees present their MS research at a domestic or international conference. |
| CIHR - Planning and Dissemination Grants on Lyme Disease | No Deadline | The CIHR – Institute of Infection and Immunity, the CIHR – Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis, and the Public Health Agency of Canada are inviting researchers to apply for Planning and... |
| NSERC PromoScience Program |
Deadline Passed (September 15, 2023) |
NSERC invites applications that promote the natural sciences and engineering to Canada's young people, particularly to groups such as girls and Aboriginal peoples that are under-represented in... |
| Canadian Language & Literacy Research Network (CLLRN) Awards | No Deadline | The Canadian Language & Literacy Research Network (CLLRN) awards three (3) prizes annually: President’s Medal Established in 2006, the President’s Medal is awarded annually to a Network... |
| Campus Alberta Small Business Engagement Program (CASBE) | No Deadline | The Campus Alberta Small Business Engagement “CASBE Program” is a pilot funding program at Alberta Innovates to leverage the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council “NSERC” efforts through... |
| NSERC Research Tools & Instruments (RTI) Grants Program |
Deadline Passed (October 3, 2022) |
RTI Grants are one-year awards of up to $150,000 that assist in the purchase or fabrication of research equipment with a net cost between $7,001 and $250,000 (excluding taxes, customs and importation... |
| Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Funding |
Deadline Passed (June 30, 2022) |
Mitacs Elevate is a postdoctoral fellowship with an exclusive professional development curriculum component. Fellows address complex challenges through: A two-year research project with a partner... |
| Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme) Venture Grants | No Deadline | The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation Venture Grants program supports research on Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases. The Foundation’s goal is to increase knowledge and understanding of... |
| Campus Alberta Neuroscience (CAN) - Conference Support Program | No Deadline | Campus Alberta Neuroscience (CAN) was developed to increase the connectedness, scope, scale, success and impact of neuroscience and mental health research, education and translation in Alberta. CAN’s... |
| Canola Oil Research | No Deadline | Exploring health benefits of canola oil. Research continues to document and expand canola oil's importance to human nutrition. Projects now underway are increasing our knowledge of how canola can... |
| University of Lethbridge Research Fund (ULRF) |
Deadline Passed (November 1, 2023) |
University of Lethbridge Research Fund (ULRF) The 2023/2024 Guidelines have been updated for the current competition. ****If you are having issues submitting the ULRF using the Internal Grant... |
| ULTF University of Lethbridge Travel Fund | No Deadline | The University of Lethbridge Travel Fund has been established by the University of Lethbridge Board of Governors to reimburse expenses incurred by successful applicants for travel to meetings of... |
| Event Support Program | No Deadline | The Event Support Program focuses on sport program development. The program provides financial support to communities and associations to assist them in hosting major sport events, and as a result,... |
| The Covenant Health Research Grant (CHRC) | No Deadline | The Covenant Health Research Grant was established to support researchers and research projects, and corresponding knowledge transfer activities that advance the Covenant Health strategic plan. |
| The Muttart Foundation Training Program | No Deadline | The foundation considers applications from registered charitable organizations in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Foundation's funding guidelines are focused on two main areas: Early Childhood... |
| The Muttart Foundation Bursary Program | No Deadline | The foundation considers applications from registered charitable organizations in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Foundation's funding guidelines are focused on two main areas: Early Childhood... |
| Chinook Summer Research Award |
Deadline Passed (January 31, 2024) |
NOTE: There is a field for Project Description in the application, however a project description is not required for this year’s competition. The Alberta Innovates Summer Research Studentships and... |
| Tri-Agency Catalyst Grant | No Deadline | Overview Value Up to $6,000 Duration Not to exceed 12 months Application deadline No deadline. Applications accepted on a first-come, first-... |
| AIB Research Grant | No Deadline | AIB (also known as the Bisexual Foundation) encourages, supports and assists research and education about bisexuality, through programs likely to make a material difference and enhance public... |
| Industry Partnered Funding Opportunities AICE (Accelerating Innovations into CarE) | No Deadline | The Accelerating Innovations into CarE (AICE) program provides the health system with a lever to generate evidence required to support adoption of new technologies developed by small-medium sized... |
| Alberta Gambling Research Institute Major Grants |
Deadline Passed (June 20, 2022) |
To support curiosity-driven basic research for Investigator - and/or stakeholder identified topics. Once/year (Internal Application Deadline: to respective University Research Office [RSO] Monday,... |
| SSHRC Connection Grants |
Deadline Passed (July 17, 2023) |
Connection Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of SSHRC's Connection program. They support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization ... |
| Parkland Institute Faculty Research Award |
Deadline Passed (May 31, 2021) |
Parkland Institute is an Alberta-wide, non-partisan research centre situated within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. Parkland Institute studies economic, social, cultural, and... |
| Nobel Prize | No Deadline | The nomination processes start in September each year. No person can nominate herself/himself for a Nobel Prize. The Nobel Committees of the four prize awarding institutions are responsible for... |