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Celebrates British Columbians who go above and beyond in their dedication and service to others and who devote time and energy to making their communities more caring, dynamic, beautiful, healthy, and unique.

Honours extraordinary women leaders.

The IDG funding enables the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches and/or ideas.  This is an excellent opportunity for new scholar(s) / researcher(s) to explore new research. Also, this funding permits seasoned researcher(s) to develop/explore new avenues of research. Researchers may only apply for and hold, as applicant, only one IDG at a time.

• Maximum Award: $75,000 CAD
  

Partnership Grants provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over 4 to 7 years to advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization.

• Maximum Award: $20,000 CAD
  

Mitacs Elevate trains emerging research management leaders through an exclusive professional skills curriculum. Fellows gain theoretical and experiential training in areas such as project management and presentations.

• Maximum Award: $100,000 CAD
  

The Trans-Atlantic Platform has launched its 2018 Social Innovation Call for Proposals, which will support international projects that can contribute to increasing our understanding of societal transformations and the role of social innovation.

• Maximum Award: $175,000 CAD
  

For contribution to community beyond academy.

Recognizes contributions to the theoretical foundations of human cognition.

• Maximum Award: $120,000 CAD
  

Recognizes researchers with the capacity to propose creative solutions to important issues and to inform public debate.

• Maximum Award: $225,000 CAD
  

The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through the Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. There are 4 application deadlines throughout the year (Mar 15, Jun 15, Sept 15, and Dec 15).  The grants are valued at $7,000 to $25,000 over one year.

• Maximum Award: $25,000 CAD
  

Rewards outstanding scholarship and research in various fields.

Awards outstanding scientific contributions of individuals from all scholarly disciplines aiming at improving the development and living conditions of children and youth.

• Maximum Award: 1,000,000 SFr CHF
  

Any British Columbian (or former long-term resident) who has demonstrated outstanding achievement, excellence or distinction in any field. Community leadership, business, labour, industry, volunteer service, research, culture, the arts, sports… the possibilities are nearly endless.

Recognizes important contributions in multiple domain.

Rewards outstanding scholarship and research in various fields.

The John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant supports early career psychologists conducting research in the area of early intervention and treatment for serious emotional disturbance in children.

• Maximum Award: $20,000 USD
  

Our Scientific Council selects and funds the most promising research proposals that enhance the Organization for Autism Research's mission.

• Maximum Award: $30,000 USD
  

Submissions are accepted September 1st through March 31st or, until all available funds have been committed. For faculty in areas supported by SSHRC to attend conferences beginning September 1 through March 31.

Recognizes leading change makers for innovation in the education system.

• Maximum Award: $30,000,000 HKD
  

VPR Research Travel Grants are provided for faculty in areas supported by SSHRC to attend North American (max. $900) and international (max. $2,000) conferences to present a paper (including poster presentation).

• Applications for conferences taking place between April 1, 2020 - August 31, annually.

Recognizes individuals who maintains academic excellence, has a talent for research and knowledge mobilization and has demonstrated clear potential to be a future leader within and/or outside the academic sector. The nomination process for this award is managed through the Dean of Graduate Studies Office.

• Maximum Award: $50,000 CAD
  

Recognizes sustained leadership, dedication and originality of thought and have inspired students and colleagues alike. Institution submits nominations to SSHRC.

• Maximum Award: $100,000 CAD
  

Recognizes individuals or teams whose SSHRC-funded project has engaged the campus and/or wider community, and has generated intellectual, cultural, social and/or economic impacts. Nominations submitted by the institution.

• Maximum Award: $50,000 CAD
  

Recognizes individuals or teams whose project has resulted in significant contribution to knowledge and understanding about people, societies and the world. These are institutional and limited submission nominations.

• Maximum Award: $50,000 CAD
  

Awards a formal partnership that, through mutual co-operation and shared intellectual leadership and resources, has demonstrated impact and influence within and/or beyond the social sciences and humanities research community. These are institutional and limited submission nominations.

• Maximum Award: $50,000 CAD
  

Stimulates the dissemination, public scrutiny and implementation of ideas that have potential to bring about significant improvement in educational practice and advances in educational attainment.

• Maximum Award: $100,000 USD
  

For researchers in the fields of the humanities and social sciences whose scientific achievements have been internationally recognized in their research area and from whose research collaboration with specialist colleagues in Germany a sustainable contribution is expected towards the further internationalization of the humanities and social sciences in Germany.

• Maximum Award: €250,000 EUROS
  

The University Publications Fund (UPF) is established under the authority of the Vice-President, Research for the purpose of providing support to faculty and staff of ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV for their academic publications. Rapid Response Publications submissions are accepted year-round. Single and Serial Event Publication submissions are accepted annually: April 12th - May 12th.

Recognizes individuals who have made a sustained and substantial contribution to educational research.

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV/SSHRC Small Research Grants support scholarly research in the contemporary arts, humanities and social sciences for expenses up to a maximum of $7,000. A lead applicant, together with one or more eligible co-investigators may apply in a single application for up to a maximum of $10,000.

• Maximum Award: $10,000 CAD
  
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Awarded to active (not retired) Canadian scholars who have made a substantial and significant contribution over a significant period to scholarly research.

• Maximum Award: $100,000 CAD
  

A new initiative for launching big, audacious ideas.

The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through the Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. There are 4 application deadlines throughout the year (Mar 15, Jun 15, Sept 15, and Dec 15).  The grants are valued at $7,000 to $25,000 over one year.

• Maximum Award: $25,000 CAD
  

Builds visibility for researchers who have the potential to transform Canadian public education.

Recognizes Canada’s leaders in sustainability for their contributions over the prior two years.

Recognizes distinguished Chinese Canadians who have made outstanding professional achievements.

• Maximum Award: $2,500 CAD
  

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's Refugee and Newcomer Advisory Committee (RNAC) is offering research grants to support research in topics related to refugee migration and newcomer issues.

• Maximum Award: $10,000 CAD
  

Our Scientific Council selects and funds the most promising research proposals that enhance the Organization for Autism Research's mission.

• Maximum Award: $30,000 USD
  

Are you an established, leading principal investigator who wants long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, high-risk project? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you. Three main research domains: Physical Sciences & Engineering, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences & Humanities.

• Maximum Award: €2,500,000 EUR
  

This funding opportunity supports interdisciplinary events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives to contribute to the CRCC-prioritized national dialogue.

• Maximum Award: $50,000 CAD
  

VPR Research Travel Grants are provided for faculty in areas supported by SSHRC to attend North American (max. $900) and international (max. $2,000) conferences to present a paper (including poster presentation).

• Applications for conferences taking place between September 1 to March 31, annually.

Aid to Scholarly Journals grants support Canadian scholarly dissemination by offering a contribution to enable journals to explore innovative activities as well as to help them to defray the costs associated with publishing scholarly articles, digital publishing and journal distribution on Canadian not-for-profit platforms.

• Maximum Award: $90,000 CAD

The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through the Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. There are 4 application deadlines throughout the year (Mar 15, Jun 15, Sept 15, and Dec 15).  The grants are valued at $7,000 to $25,000 over one year.

• Maximum Award: $25,000 CAD

The aim of the Banting PDF Program is to attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally and internationally, and to launch the PDF into a successful research-intensive career. The application must be completed in full collaboration with the institution and include the host institution's commitment.

• Maximum Award: $140,000 CAD

*NOTE: This deadline is an estimate based on previous years, but a confirmed deadline has not yet been published. ORS will update the deadline when it has been confirmed.

Recognizes exceptional contributions to teaching and learning in Canadian post-secondary education.

*NOTE: This deadline is an estimate based on previous years, but a confirmed deadline has not yet been published. ORS will update the deadline when it has been confirmed.

Support to scholars for small research conferences and focused symposia.

• Maximum Award: $50,000 USD

*NOTE: This deadline is an estimate based on previous years, but a confirmed deadline has not yet been published. We will update the deadline when it has been confirmed.

Exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.

• Maximum Award: Varies

*NOTE: This deadline is an estimate based on previous years, but a confirmed deadline has not yet been published. We will update the deadline when it has been confirmed.

Empowers young researchers to lead International, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational dialogue with the goal to make global decision making evidence-based and inclusive.

*NOTE: This deadline is an estimate based on previous years, but a confirmed deadline has not yet been published. We will update the deadline when it has been confirmed.

The ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV-Mitacs Globalink Research Award provides $6,000 for senior undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in Canada to conduct 12–24-week research projects at universities overseas.

• Deadline: On-going
  
• Maximum Award: $6,000 CAD

Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years.

• Maximum Award: $400,000 CAD

SSHRC Partnership Grants provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over 4 to 7 years to advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization. There are two stages: Stage 1 (Feb) and Stage 2 by invitation only (Nov).

• Maximum Award: $2,500,000 CAD

Honours outstanding achievement in the physical, biological, and social sciences.

• Maximum Award: Varies

*NOTE: This deadline is an estimate based on previous years, but a confirmed deadline has not yet been published. We will update the deadline when it has been confirmed.

Griffith University and ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Collaborative Travel Grant's are awarded for the purpose of expanding cooperation, exchange ideas and research collaborations between our two institutions in the following areas: Drug discovery; Environmental sciences and environmental planning; Forest ecology, forest management and climate change adaptation; Behavioural and cognitive neuroscience; Mental health and addiction; Public health; Bioinformatics and genomics; Big Data; Criminology; Business; Tourism Musicology; and such other areas as the parties shall agree.

• Maximum Award: $15,000 CAD

*NOTE: This deadline is an estimate based on previous years, but a confirmed deadline has not yet been published. We will update the deadline when it has been confirmed.

The National Geographic Society awards grants for conservation, education, research, storytelling, and technology through its Committee for Research and Exploration.

• Maximum Award: $10,000 USD

*NOTE: This deadline is an estimate based on previous years, but a confirmed deadline has not yet been published. We will update the deadline when it has been confirmed.

Grants for conservation, education, research, storytelling, and technology.

• Maximum Award: $30,000 USD

*NOTE: This deadline is an estimate based on previous years, but a confirmed deadline has not yet been published. We will update the deadline when it has been confirmed.

Connection Grants (amounts from $7,000 to $25,000) support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes or other events or outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. Applications may be submitted by institutions (e.g., university led events) or individual applicants and teams. This is a 2:1 matching fund opportunity (SSHRC:entity match).

• Maximum Award:  $25,000 CAD

Encourages continuing contributions to the cultural and intellectual heritage of Canada.

• Maximum Award: $50,000 CAD

Partnership Development Grants (PDG) provide $75,000 to $200,000 over one to three years to formal partnerships, led by a project director. Partner organizations must provide evidence attesting to the commitment (e.g., cash and/or in-kind) that has been agreed upon.

• Maximum Award: $200,000 CAD

Recognizes recipients who have developed and implemented an invention, innovation, concept, process or procedure that enhances educational practice in the K-12 public school system in BC.

• Maximum Award: $100,000 CAD

*NOTE: This deadline is an estimate based on previous years, but a confirmed deadline has not yet been published. ORS will update the deadline when it has been confirmed

Recognizes current or recent innovations that have a positive impact on the quality of life in Canada.

Recognizes remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life.

Recognizes the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership.

The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through the Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. There are 4 application deadlines throughout the year (Mar 15, Jun 15, Sept 15, and Dec 15).  The grants are valued at $7,000 to $25,000 over one year.

• Maximum Award: $25,000 CAD

SSHRC Institutional Grants/¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Grants support scholarly research in the contemporary arts, humanities and social sciences for expenses up to a maximum of $7,000. A lead applicant, together with one or more eligible co-applicants may apply in a single application for up to $10,000.

• Maximum Award: $7,000 CAD

The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through the Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. There are 4 application deadlines throughout the year (Mar 15, Jun 15, Sept 15, and Dec 15).  The grants are valued at $7,000 to $25,000 over one year.

• Maximum Award: $25,000 CAD