Funding Opportunities
Looking for assistance with your application or proposal?
The ORSCE now offers in-depth feedback on your grant applications! Please send your entire competed grant application to our Grants and Research Facilitator, Yvonne Kjorlien, (ykjorlien@mtroyal.ca) at least THREE weeks prior to the funding agency's deadline. This will allow time for Yvonne to review your application and for you to revise your application.
The standard ORSCE deadline applies if you do not wish for feedback on your application.
Standard ORSCE deadline: A Research Activity Form must be submitted via ROMEO one week prior to the external funder's deadline. The Research Activity Form must include the full and complete grant application (or LOI, NOI, etc.) for review, whether of not the external funder requires institutional signatures. A Research Activity Form must be submitted for each stage of the funding process, such as LOI, NOI, etc.
Internal funding opportunities
The Faculty Research and Scholarship Dissemination Fund 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: December 3rd, 2021 (noon)
Winter Application Deadline: APRIL 29th 2022 (noon)
Click here to view the 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 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
Opportunity Deadlines
Fall Application Deadline: Friday, October 1, 2021 (application available in ROMEO Sept 10th, 2021)
Winter Application Deadline: Friday, January 14, 2022
Applications to the Internal Research Grant Fund (IRGF) are submitted via ROMEO. The IRGF application is available approximately 3 weeks before the opportunity deadline.
Applications will be accepted until noon on the submission deadline. Opportunity results will be announced 6-8 weeks from the submission deadline.
Click here to view the 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.
Click here to access the Undergraduate Research Dissemination Fund Program Guidelines.
Click here to access the Undergraduate Research Dissemination Fund Instructions.
The fall call for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grants will be open through the ROMEO system from November 1 to November 30, 2020, with a funding start date of January 1, 2021. The Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is in the process of re-branding and movement within the Academic Development Centre, but the grants program will continue to support teaching and learning research at MRU.
Click here for more information on the funding opportunities.
External funding opportunities
For a printer-friendly version of typical Tri-Agency deadlines, check out this Google document.
| Funder | Competition | Amount | Duration |
Pre-Application Deadline |
G&R Facilitator Deadline |
ORSCE Deadline | Funder Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NFRF | Special Call 2021: Innovative approaches to research in the pandemic context | up to $250,000 including indirect costs | 2 years | Sept 14 | Oct 5 | Oct 19 | October 26, 2021 |
| CIHR | Catalyst Grant: Official Language Minority Communities in Health Research | $100,000 / year | up to 5 years | n/a | Sept 14 | Sept 28 | October 5, 2021 |
| SSHRC | Insight Grant |
Stream A: $7,000 to $100,000 Stream B: $10,001 to $400,000 |
2 to 5 years | n/a | Sept 10 | Sept 24 | October 1, 2021 |
| NSERC | Discovery Horizons - Pilot |
$50,000 to $100,000 / yr |
5 years | June 8 | Sept 27 | Oct 11 | October 18, 2021 |
| NFRF | Exploration 2021 |
up to $125,000 (including OH) / year |
up to 2 years | Aug 3 | Sept 28 | Oct 12 | October 19, 2021 |
| NSERC | Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) |
up to $150,000 |
1 year | n/a | Oct 4 | Oct 18 | October 25, 2021 |
| NFRF | Transformation | $2M - $4M / year | up to 6 years |
Oct 26 (NOI) Jan 4 (LOI) |
Aug 30 | Sept 13 | September 20, 2022 |
| NSERC | Discovery Grant | no maximum | up to 5 years | Aug 1 | Oct 10 | Oct 24 | November 1, 2021 |
| SSHRC | Connection Grant: Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative | Event: $7,000 to $25,000 Outreach: $7,000 to $50,000 |
up to 1 year | n/a | Oct 10 | Oct 24 | November 1, 2021 |
| SSHRC | Connection Grant |
Event: $7,000 to $25,000 |
up to 1 year | n/a | Oct 10 | Oct 24 | November 1, 2021 |
| CIHR | CIHR Team Grants: Healthy Cities Implementation Science (HCIS) |
$500,000 |
up to 6 years | Aug 11, 2021 | April 7, 2022 | April 21, 2022 | April 28, 2022 |
| NSERC | Alliance Option 1 | $20,000 - $1M | 1 - 5 years | n/a | 3 weeks prior to ext fund | one week prior to ext fund | rolling intake |
| NSERC | Alliance Option 2 | $20,000 - $200,000 | 1 - 5 years | n/a | 3 weeks prior to ext fund | one week prior to ext fund | rolling intake |