Funding Opportunities
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SSHRC awards
In 2018, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) merged the Aid to Small Universities and SSHRC Institution Grants into a single program to be administered by eligible institutions. MRU will receive a $36,503 block grant in each of the next three academic years to be awarded as SSHRC Explore (for research activities) and SSHRC Exchange (for dissemination activities) grants.
The application process for the new SSHRC Grants will be fully integrated with the Internal Research Grant Fund (IRGF) for Explore Grants and Faculty Conference Travel Fund (FCTF) awards for Exchange Grants.
Applications for these awards will be conducted through ROMEO in the IRGF and FCTF opportunities respectively. Applicants with SSHRC eligible activities will automatically be considered for the SSHRC Grants by the Scholarship Review Committee. The top 3 ranked IRGF and top 2 ranked FCTF SSHRC eligible applications from each opportunity will be awarded SSHRC Explore and SSHRC Exchange Grants respectively. These SSHRC awards will be administered identically to existing internal awards, but they will be 'branded' as SSHRC awards and will have specific acknowledgement and reporting requirements.
To summarize, MRU has additional funds available to award as SSHRC grants through the IRGF and FCTF opportunities. Applications will be seamless with the existing internal grant programs, deadlines and adjudication.
Changes to internal awards eligibility
Due to the increasing demand
Applicants for an IRGF or SSHRC Explore award will be required to submit a final report on any existing grant at least 12 months before they are eligible again. This change will come into effect for the January 2019 IRGF/SSHRC Explore opportunity.
Applicants for an FCTF or SSHRC Exchange award are not eligible to apply for a new award until 24 months after the last successful application deadline.
Internal grant deadlines for ORSCE 2019/20
IRGF/SSHRC Explore
- Fall deadline: Friday, September 27, 2019 (CLOSED)
- Winter deadline: Friday, January 17, 2020 (OPEN)
FCTF/SSHRC Exchange
- Fall deadline: Friday, December 6, 2019 (CLOSED)
- Winter deadline: Friday, May 1, 2020 (CLOSED)
Please see the ORSCE funding opportunities webpage for details.
IES Research Grant Fund
- Fall deadline: Friday, October 4, 2019 (notification of
decision will beweek of Nov. 4th) - Winter deadline: Friday, January 24, 2020 (notification of
decision will beweek of Feb. 24th)
Please see the IES funding opportunities webpage for details
Thank you to everyone who applied to the Fall 2019 Faculty Conference Travel Fund opportunity. It is now closed and applicants will be notified of results via email by mid-January.
This program provides financial assistance to full-time tenured or tenurable faculty to attend conferences (or similar events for scholarly dissemination) that advance their research and scholarship programs.
Opportunity Deadlines
Fall Application Deadline: Friday, December 6, 2019 (CLOSED)
Winter Application Deadline: Friday, May 1, 2020 (CLOSED)
Click here to view the 2019-20 Program Guidelines and Submission Instructions.
NOTE: The Program Guidelines and Submission Instructions are subject to change with subsequent opportunities. Please check the ORSCE website approximately one month prior to the next opportunity to see the newest guidelines.
The Office of Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement is pleased to announce that its Internal Research Grant Fund (IRGF) opportunity is now open and accepting applications via ROMEO.
The Internal Research Grant Fund (IRGF) is the main source of internal funds available to eligible faculty at Mount Royal University. This program is designed to support faculty in developing their research programs through the funding of:
- Pilot projects
- Projects designed to lead to larger-scale external funding applications
- Projects that are not well-suited to external funding opportunities
Fall Application Deadline: Friday, September 27, 2019 (CLOSED)
Winter Application Deadline: Friday, January 17, 2020 (OPEN)
Applications will be accepted until midnight on the submission deadline. Opportunity results will be announced 6-8 weeks from the submission deadline.
Click here to view the 2019-20 Program Guidelines and Submission Instructions.
NOTE: The Program Guidelines and Submission Instructions are subject to change with subsequent opportunities. Please check the ORSCE website approximately one month prior to the next opportunity to see the newest guidelines.
The Institute for Environmental Sustainability is pleased to announce that its Research Grant Fund opportunity is now open and accepting applications via ROMEO.
See the IES Research Grants Application Guidelines for details.
Application Deadline: Friday, January 24, 2020
Click here to access the Fall 2019 Undergraduate Research Dissemination Fund Program Guidelines.
Click here to access the Fall 2019 Undergraduate Research Dissemination Fund Instructions.
Through a generous donation from the TransCanada Corporation, the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning supports and facilitates collaborative research projects on program-level, discipline-level, and interdisciplinary topics.
Collaborative Inquiry Grants are designated for collaborative teaching and learning inquiry projects that go beyond an inquiry related to teaching and learning in a single class.
Some examples of collaborative inquiries include, but are not limited to, inquiries about teaching and learning that will:
- be investigated in multiple courses and/or sections in a department or program (e.g. studying student learning over a series of courses)
- be investigated in courses from different programs and faculties (e.g. studying undergraduate research skills development in courses from a variety of disciplines)
- be investigated in courses from multiple contexts (e.g. studying the effect of a certain pedagogy at institutions with varying class sizes)
- have a student as a co-investigator (a senior student collaborating to design/conduct a study in a lower-level class)
- require the expertise of a variety of co-investigators due to the size and scope of the project (e.g. a technical writing expert collaborating to study student writing skills development in science
Click here to download the details for this opportunity. For more information, please contact Anne Johnston, Administrative Coordinator for ISOTL, at ajohnston@mtroyal.ca or call (403) 440-5503.
Application Deadline: Monday, November 18, 2019
Essential SoTL investigators may apply for funding of up to $5,000 over a one-year period. A limited number of grants will be awarded in each funding cycle. If you would like guidance about your
Click here to download the details for this opportunity. For more information, please contact Anne Johnston, Administrative Coordinator for ISOTL, at ajohnston@mtroyal.ca or call (403) 440-5503.
Application Deadline: Monday, November 18, 2019
SoTL in Community Service Learning
In collaboration with the Office of Teaching and Learning, the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is accepting proposals for SoTL related to Community Service Learning (CSL) in courses and programs at MRU. Such scholarship is aimed at understanding and assessing the impact of CSL on student learning and the communities
SoTL in Indigenization
In collaboration with the Office of Academic Indigenization, the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is accepting proposals for SoTL related to Indigenization processes within classrooms or curriculum at MRU, understanding and furthering MRU's efforts in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) Call to Action and MRU's Indigenous Strategic Plan.
SoTL in Riddell Active Learning Spaces
In collaboration with the Library and the Academic Development Centre, the Institute for SoTL is accepting proposals for SoTL related to the utilization of the unique active learning spaces within the Riddell Library and Learning Centre to support innovative teaching.
Click here to download the details for this opportunity. For more information, please contact Anne Johnston, Administrative Coordinator for ISOTL, at ajohnston@mtroyal.ca or call (403) 440-5503.
Application Deadline: Monday, November 18, 2019
Click here to download the details for this opportunity. For more information, please contact Anne Johnston, Administrative Coordinator for ISOTL, at ajohnston@mtroyal.ca or call (403) 440-5503.
Application Deadline: Monday, November 18, 2019
Notice of intent to apply deadline: Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 6 p.m. MST
Letter of intent to apply deadline: Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 6 p.m. MST
Full application deadline: Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 6 p.m. MST
Value:
Minimum $2,000,000 per year (including indirect costs)
Maximum $4,000,000 per year (including indirect costs)
Duration: Up to six years
Competition budget: $144,000,000 over six years
Number of grants: Number of awards depends on amounts requested in successful applications
See details on the New Frontiers website. For more information, please contact NFRF-FNFR@chairs-chaires.gc.ca.
The Scientific Office of the Respiratory Health Strategic Clinical Network (RHSCN) is pleased to invite interested researchers to apply for its 2019/2020 Research and Innovation Seed Grant Competition. It will make up to three Research and Innovation Seed (RIS) Grants to support short-term, pilot research projects, student-initiated research, or research and innovation activities in the area of respiratory health. For this competition, the goal of the RIS Grant is to support research that aligns with the RHSCN long-term Research and Innovation strategic goal of accelerating respiratory knowledge that has a provincial impact on improving patient care.
This RIS Grant competition has been created to encourage the development of ideas that will improve the quality of respiratory care or prevention delivery in the Health Quality Council of Alberta's six domains of quality: appropriateness, accessibility, effectiveness, efficiency, safety, and acceptability. The RIS Grants will aim to support new investigators, with a further aim of building respiratory research capacity in the province.
Up to three awards of up to $10,000 each will be offered, for total funding support of $30,000. The duration of the grant period will be for one year. Investigators are encouraged to consider seeking additional funding partners to leverage the research dollars.
Please contact Heather Sharpe, Assistant Scientific Director, Respiratory Health Strategic Clinical Network, Alberta Health Services, at heather.sharpe@ahs.ca, by Friday, December 20, 2019, to indicate your intention to submit for the January 15, 2020 deadline.
The internal deadline to submit your application through the agency Research Portal for Melissa's review is noon, Monday, January 27, 2020.
Should any revisions be required, the application will be returned to you to make the changes. Also, please do not forget to complete a Research Activity Form in ROMEO, and allow your faculty signing authority time to review and approve the application before the internal deadline. The ORSCE is unable to submit your application to SSHRC without the approved Research Activity Form.
Application Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2020 - 6 p.m. MST
In addition, SSHRC will be holding a webinar at 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (MST) on Wednesday, December 18, 2019, to outline what is new with this year's competition and focus on responding to questions. It will be held via WebEx (for the visual presentation, written questions and audio). Advance registration is not required.
Contact ORSCE Director Melissa Deane at mdeane1@mtroyal.ca or (403) 440-5081 if you have any questions.
NSERC is pleased to announce that Alliance grants are now open for Option 1 applications requesting more than $30,000 annually from NSERC. Applications requesting $20,000 or more (up to and including $30,000) annually from NSERC will be accepted beginning on December 11, 2019.
Option 2 applications requesting support for up to 90% or 100% of the costs of the project will be accepted in early 2020. This component of the Alliance grants is intended for proposals that:
- conduct natural science or engineering research that addresses an unmet societal need. This may include research affecting public goods, or that will address national or global issues that benefit more than a single or a few organizations, and where sources of funds are unavailable;
- connect partner organizations willing and able to overcome existing barriers to address these challenges and achieve results that can lead to aq societal impact beyond economic benefits, and where an increased level of support from public funds is justified.
For full details on Alliance Grants and how to apply, please visit the Alliance webpage. The FAQ section has recently been updated.
Please direct any questions/comments to Alliance@nserc-crsng.gc.ca.
Global Affairs Canada and the Chinese Ministry of Education are offering over 20 short-term scholarships to Canadians wishing to study abroad in China. Scholarships are awarded for studies, research, language studies or a combination of studies and language studies at participating Chinese institutions.
- Target audiences: Canadian students (college, undergraduate and graduate levels in Canada); Canadian faculty members and research staff at a post-secondary institution in Canada; Canadian mid-career professionals
- Duration: 4 to 12 months for students; and 8 weeks to 12 months for faculty members and mid-career professionals
- Inclusions: Airfare, tuition fees, a monthly living stipend, on-campus accommodation and medical insurance
For full program details and to submit an online application, visit: Canada-China Scholars' Exchange Program.
All inquiries regarding this program should be directed to scholarships-bourses@cbie.ca or (613) 237-4820.
Global Affairs Canada is offering short-term scholarships to students from member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) wishing to study or conduct research in Canada.
The Canada-ASEAN Scholarships and Educational Exchanges for Development (SEED), announced by the Government of Canada in August 2017, will provide approximately 125 scholarships in 2020-2021 for study or research in fields that are aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Canadian post-secondary academic institutions can now submit scholarship applications on behalf of students from eligible countries by Thursday, March 5, 2020. Only applications submitted directly by Canadian post-secondary academic institutions will be considered.
Interested candidates are invited to contact their home institution’s international office to learn about institutional partnerships and collaborations with Canadian institutions. Home institutions in ASEAN member states will then provide the eligible candidates’ documentation to Canadian institutions.
- Program name: Canada-ASEAN Scholarships and Educational Exchanges for Development (SEED)
- Funding organization: Global Affairs Canada
- Target audiences: Students at the college, undergraduate and graduate levels in Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand or Vietnam
- Number of scholarships: Approximately 125
- Duration: 4 to 8 months at the college and undergraduate level; 4 to 6 months at the graduate level
- Inclusions: Visa and/or study/work permit fees, airfare, health insurance, living expenses, ground transportation expenses, books and supplies
In the 2019-2020 academic year, Canada awarded 141 scholarships to Southeast Asian students who studied in 33 institutions across 8 Canadian provinces.
For full program and application details, visit Canada-ASEAN Scholarships and Educational Exchanges for Development (SEED). Read testimonials from former recipients of the program.
All inquiries regarding this scholarship program should be directed to scholarships-bourses@cbie.ca or 613-237-4820.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) have launched a Knowledge Synthesis Grants competition to assess the state of research knowledge on the topic of "Living Within the Earth's Carrying Capacity."
Living Within the Earth's Carrying Capacity is one of 16 new global future challenges identified through SSHRC's Imagining Canada's Future initiative. All of the challenges cross multiple sectors and research disciplines and require broad collaboration to address.
Application Deadline: Tuesday, January 7, 2020
For more information on the call for proposals, please contact ksg-ssc@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
Nomination Deadline: Friday, November 29, 2019 | Award recipients will be announced in March, 2020
QSR International is offering an Early Career Research Grant of $25,000 over two years for the best research proposal.
Application Deadline: Friday, November 29, 2019, 11:00 p.m. MST
Click here to see the Program Guidelines.
Questions? Contact Ann Rose at (617) 607-5106 or by email at a.rose@qsrinternational.com
The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program is designed to support world-class postdoctoral researchers. The fellowship provides $70,000 per year for two years. The program is open to both Canadian and international researchers who have recently completed a
Applications MUST be completed in full collaboration with the proposed host institution.
Application Deadline: Wednesday, September 18, 2019, 6 p.m. MST (20:00 EDT)
Note: Applications must be submitted to ORSCE Manager Melissa Deane at least one week prior to this deadline.
Please see the Banting website for details. Questions can be directed to banting@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.
Please see the 2019 CC SCN Scientific Office Systematic Review Funding Call document for important information regarding eligibility, funding details, timelines, program policies, and how to apply for funding.
IMPORTANT TIMELINES
August 1, 2019 --- CALL for Systematic Review Grant Applications
October 18, 2019 --- Applications DUE by 4:00 p.m. MST (No exceptions)
December 15, 2019 --- NOTIFICATION of Award
Please contact Dr. Samantha Bowker (ASD Critical Care SCN) at Samantha.bowker@ahs.ca with any questions.
The NSERC USRA is designed to stimulate undergraduate interest in research in the natural sciences and engineering. Students receive an award of $5,625 (minimum) to complete 16 weeks of full-time work on a research project.
The ORSCE will provide the minimum institutional commitment portion of the award ($1,125 maximum) for each successful MRU applicant.
Application deadline: Friday, March 22, 2019 (application must be submitted, with transcripts, through the NSERC portal).
Click here to access the USRA Guidelines.
Please contact the Office of Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement (ORSCE) for all inquiries related to this program.
Please do not apply to NSERC directly
The Canada-ASEAN Scholarships and Educational Exchanges for Development (SEED), announced by the Government of Canada in August 2017, will provide approximately 200 scholarships in 2019-2020 for study or research in fields that are aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Canadian post-secondary academic institutions can now submit scholarship applications on behalf of students from eligible countries by Tuesday, March 5, 2019. Only applications submitted directly by Canadian post-secondary academic institutions will be considered.
Interested candidates are invited to contact their home institution's international office to learn about institutional partnerships and collaborations with Canadian institutions. Home institutions in ASEAN member states will then provide the eligible candidates' documentation to
- Target audiences: Students at the college, undergraduate and graduate levels in Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand or Vietnam
- Duration: 4 to 8 months at the college and undergraduate level; 4 to 6 months at the graduate level
- Inclusions: Visa and/or study/work permit fees, airfare, health insurance, living expenses, ground transportation expenses, books and supplies
In the 2018-2019 academic year, Canada awarded 76 scholarships to Southeast Asian students who studied in 24 institutions across 7 Canadian provinces. For full program and application details, visit Canada-ASEAN Scholarships and Educational Exchanges for Development (SEED).
All inquiries regarding this scholarship program should be directed
Current funding opportunities can
See the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences website for details.