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 6th, 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
Winter Application Deadline: Friday, January 14, 2022 (application available in ROMEO the week of Dec 13, 2021)
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 Mokakiiks Centre 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSERC | Discovery Horizons |
$50,000 to $100,000 / year |
5 years | Jun 16 | Sept 27 | Oct 11 | October 18, 2022 |
| CIHR | Catalyst Grant: Crisis Line and App-based Support for Public Safety |
$100,000 / year |
up to 5 years | May 19 | Jun 1 | Jun 14 | June 21, 2022 |
| SSHRC | Partnership Engage Grant: Residential Schools Joint Initiative Grant |
$7000 to $50,000 |
1 year | n/a | May 22 | Jun 8 | June 15, 2022 |
| SSHRC | Partnership Engage Grant |
$7000 to $25,000 |
1 year | n/a | May 22 | Jun 8 | June 15, 2022 |
| CIHR | Team Grant : Mental Health in the Early Years Implementation Science |
$250,000 / year |
up to 5 years | n/a | Jun 3 | June 16 | June 23, 2022 |
| SSHRC | Connection Grant |
Event: $7000 - $25k Outreach: $7000 - $50k |
1 year | n/a | July 10 | July 24 | August 1, 2022 |
| NFRF | Special Call: Research for Postpandemic Recovery |
up to $250,000 |
up to 2 years | April 19 | July 19 | Aug 2 | August 9, 2022 |
| NFRF | Transformation |
$2M - $4M / year |
up to 6 years |
Oct 26, 2021 (NOI) Jan 4, 2022 (LOI) |
Aug 30, 2022 | Sept 13, 2022 | September 20, 2022 |
| NSERC | Alliance International Catalyst Grants | $25,000 | 1 year |
n/a |
3 weeks prior to ext fund | one week prior to ext fund | rolling intake |
| NSERC | Alliance International Collaboration Grants | $100,000 | up to 3 years |
n/a |
3 weeks prior to ext fund | one week prior to ext fund | rolling intake |
| NSERC - NSF | Collaboration on Quantum Science and Artificial Intelligence | $20k - $1M/ year | up to 5 years |
LOI due eight weeks prior to submitting full application |
3 weeks prior to ext fund | one week prior to ext fund | rolling intake |
| 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 |