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 2th, 2022 (noon) (application available in ROMEO week of Oct 31st)
Winter Application Deadline: April 28th 2023 (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: noon Thursday, September 29, 2022 (application is now available in ROMEO)
Winter Application Deadline: noon Friday, January 13, 2023
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 updated 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 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.
Click here to access the Undergraduate Research Dissemination Fund Program Guidelines.
Click here to access the Undergraduate Research Dissemination Fund Instructions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SSHRC | Insight Grants | Stream A: $7,000 to $100,000 Stream B: $100,001 to $400,000 |
2 to 5 years |
n/a |
Sept 12 | Sept 26 | October 3, 2022 |
| CIHR | Catalyst Grant: Policy Research for Health System Transformation | $150,000 for policy grants, $75,000 for KMb grants | 1 year |
n/a |
Sept 13 | Sept 27 | October 4, 2022 |
| CIHR | Operating Grant: Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts | $75,000 | 1 year |
Sept 9 |
Sept 13 | Sept 27 | October 4, 2022 |
| NSERC | Discovery Horizons | $50,000 to $100,000 / year | 5 years |
June 16 |
Sept 27 | Oct 11 | October 18, 2022 |
| NSERC | Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) | up to $150,000 | 1 year |
n/a |
Oct 4 | Oct 18 | October 25, 2022 |
| Alberta | Cancer Research for Screening and Prevention (CRSP) program-funding grants | up to $1M | 3 years |
n/a |
Oct 3 | Oct 24 | October 31, 2022 |
| CIHR | INMD Early Career Researcher Partnerhship Prize | $2500 | 1 year |
n/a |
Oct 11 | Oct 25 | November 1, 2022 |
| CIHR | Operating Grant: Diabetes, Psychosocial Health, Prevention and Self-Management | $250,000 / year | 4 years |
n/a |
Oct 11 | Oct 25 | November 1, 2022 |
| NSERC | Discovery Grant | no limit | up to 5 years |
July 25 |
Oct 11 | Oct 25 | November 1, 2022 |
| SSHRC | Connection Grant |
Event: $7000 - $25k Outreach: $7000 - $50k |
1 year |
n/a |
Oct 11 | Oct 25 | November 1, 2022 |
| SSHRC | Connection Grant: Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative |
Event: $7000 - $25k Outreach: $7000 - $50k |
1 year |
n/a |
Oct 11 | Oct 25 | November 1, 2022 |
| SSHRC - CMHC | Partnership Grants for National Housing Strategy Longitudinal Outcomes Research |
up to $4.8M |
5 years |
n/a |
Nov 1 | Nov 15 | November 22, 2022 |
| SSHRC-CIHR | CIHR Transforming Health with Integrated Care - Implementation Science Teams Grants |
$2M |
5 years |
n/a |
Nov 8 | Nov 22 | November 29, 2022 |
| NSERC-DRG | NSERC-German Research Foundation (DFG) call for proposals on Sustainable Processes and Chemistry |
$20,000 to $100,000 |
1 to 3 years |
Dec 1 (to ORSCE) |
May 16 | May 30, 2023 | June 6, 2023 |
| SSHRC | Partnership Engage Grant |
$7,000 to $25,000 |
1 year |
n/a |
Nov 25 | Dec 8 | December 15, 2022 |
| SSHRC | Knowledge Synthesis: Shifting Dynamics of Privilege and Marginalization |
$30,000 |
1 year |
n/a |
Nov 25 | Dec 8 | December 15, 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 |