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, (ykorlien@mtroyal.ca) atleast 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. You will also receive instiutional approvals at this time.
The standard ORSCE deadline applies if you do not wish for feedback on your application: please submit your entire completed application with a Research Activity Form via ROMEO ONE week prior to the external funding agency deadline.
Internal funding opportunities
The Faculty Conference Travel 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: CANCELLED
Winter Application Deadline: MAY 2021
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 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 2, 2020
Winter Application Deadline: Friday, January 15, 2021 (Application is now available in ROMEO)
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 2020-2021 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
All external applications for funding must be submitted through ROMEO with a Research Activity Form at least one week prior to the external submission deadline.
| Funder | Competition | Amount | Duration |
Pre-Application Deadline |
G&R Facilitator Deadline |
ORSCE Deadline | Funder Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SSHRC | Partnership Engage Grant (PEG) | $7,000 to $25,000 | 1 year | n/a | November 24 | December 8 | Dec. 15, 2020 |
| SSHRC | Knowledge Synthesis Grant: Mobility and Transit Grant | $30,000 | 1 year | n/a | November 26 | December 10 | Dec. 17, 2020 |
| Bluenotes | Bluenotes Global 2021 Conference Explorance Faculty Research Grant | up to $15,000 | 1 year | n/a | November 27 | December 11 | Dec. 18, 2020 |
| SSHRC | Connection Grant | $7,000 to $25,000 | 1 year | n/a | January 11 | January 25 | Feb. 1, 2021 |
| SSHRC | Connection Grant: Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative | $7,000 to $25,000 | 1 year | n/a | January 11 | January 25 | Feb. 1, 2021 |
| SSHRC | Insight Development Grant (IDG) | $7,000 - $75,000 | 1 - 2 years | n/a | January 8 | January 26 | Feb. 2, 2021 |
| SSHRC | Partnership Grants Stage 1 | $20,000 | 1 year | n/a | January 8 | February 8 | Feb. 15, 2021 (every 2nd year) |
| SSHRC | Partnership Engage Grant (PEG) | $7,000 to $25,000 | 1 year | n/a | February 22 | March 8 | Mar. 15, 2021 |
| SSHRC | Connection Grant | $7,000 to $25,000 | 1 year | n/a | April 9 | April 23 | May 1, 2021 |
| SSHRC | Connection Grant: Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative | $7,000 to $25,000 | 1 year | n/a | April 9 | April 23 | May 1, 2021 |
| SSHRC | Partnership Engage Grant (PEG) | $7,000 to $25,000 | 1 year | n/a | May 25 | June 8 | June 15, 2021 |
| SSHRC | Connection Grant | $7,000 to $25,000 | 1 year | n/a | July 9 | July 23 | Aug. 1, 2021 |
| SSHRC | Connection Grant: Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative | $7,000 to $25,000 | 1 year | n/a | July 9 | July 23 | Aug. 1, 2021 |
| 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 |