The Office of Research and Innovation provides support in the preparation of applications to all researchers who meet the funding call eligibility criteria. We encourage Indigenous people, visible minorities, diversely-abled people, women, and people from the LGBTQ2S+ communities to apply. We look forward to assisting you with your application to ensure submission of the highest quality proposal.
UNBC Deadlines:
Full applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline (unless otherwise noted in the funding opportunity information below). Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via Romeo. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval. Please see the Research Guide for complete details.
If your application requires an Institutional Letter of Support, please complete and submit the Institutional Letter of Support Request Form to the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 10 business days prior to the application deadline.
Browse upcoming funding opportunities for UNBC researchers:
External opportunities
Destination Horizon Grants support researchers affiliated with eligible Canadian postsecondary institutions to build capacity, foster existing partnerships, and further develop networks and/or consortia with European Union and other “associated countries” researchers, with the ultimate goal of applying to Horizon Europe—Pillar II calls for proposals.
SSHRC will not fund the full cost of any Destination Horizon Grant. Additional support in the form of eligible cash contributions equivalent to 100% of the amount requested from SSHRC must come from the host institution.
Note that a postsecondary institution may only submit up to three Destination Horizon Grant applications for a given deadline.
UNBC will support up to three applications for this deadline with up to $15,000 in matching funding, selected by an internal competition. Researchers must e-mail full applications downloaded as PDFs from the online application form on the Convergence Portal by the internal deadline to be considered for this internal competition.
SSHRC deadline: January 22, 2025 @ 5:00 pm PT
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
Please note the LOI deadline was November 19, 2024
The Scholar Program supports early-career health researchers who are building leading-edge health research programs, training the next generation of scientists and expanding their potential to make significant contributions to their field. Awards are $90,000/year for 5 years.
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
Please note the LOI deadline was November 19, 2024
The Health Professional-Investigator Program supports health professionals who are actively involved in patient care to build their health research programs, train the next generation of scientists, and make significant contributions to their field. Awards are $90,000/year for 5 years.
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
REFBC grants support law and policy reform, applied research, community engagement, professional education, and public education in five priority areas: Land Use, Fresh Water, Build Environments; Food Sovereignty; Real Estate Profession. REFBC has committed to aligning their grantmaking with UNDRIP and are particularly interested in projects that support justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Application Deadline: January 28, 2025 before 5pm PT
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer - Natural Sciences
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
or
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage with participants on research issues of value to them. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant can often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.
Application Deadline: February 1, 2025 @ 5:00 pm PT
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
Insight Development Grants support research in the social sciences and humanities in its initial stages. These grants enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches and/or ideas. Funding is provided for short-term research development projects of up to two years that are proposed by individuals or teams.
Application Deadline: February 2, 2025 @ 5:00 pm PT
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
Please note the expressions of interest deadline was December 13, 2024 4PM PT
The Interior Universities Research Coalition (IURC) and the BC Ministry of Health (Ministry) have established a BC Interior Region Seed Grant Research Fund, through the Ministry’s Research Seed Grant Program. This fund aims to encourage inter- institutional research, in health-related areas, between researchers at Thompson Rivers University, the University of Northern British Columbia, and the University of British Columbia (Okanagan) and foster collaboration with Ministry on research-related program areas.
Full-time faculty with ongoing or tenure-track appointments are eligible to apply. Those holding sessional or term appointments may contribute to and receive funding from an approved project, but they are not eligible to apply as Principal Applicants. Awarded projects will have a single administrative lead Principal Applicant who will be responsible for managing all aspects of the project.
Funding of $40,000 is available for one year, to be disbursed in either 1 or 2 projects that best address the Ministry of Health’s three research questions:
1. How do First Nations, Métis and Urban Indigenous partners who are in receipt of health, mental health, or social sector funding currently experience requests for progress and financial reporting, and how might health, mental health, and social sector funding agencies incorporate Indigenous-led reporting mechanisms to demonstrate program impact, reflect Indigenous worldviews, ease reporting burden on Indigenous communities and partners, and decolonize reporting processes?
2. Identify the challenges/barriers (negative impacts) and facilitators/enablers (positive impacts) that affect (1) post-secondary institution enrollment into health career programs (including career laddering programs), (2) program completion, and/or (3) health workforce attrition within the first five years of employment post-graduation for Indigenous Peoples in British Columbia.
3. To what extent do Employed Student Nurse (ESN) Programs across BC’s Health Authorities optimize opportunities for student nurses to work in health care, and how can they be improved to support practice readiness and enhance intentional recruitment and retention?
All eligible EOIs received by the above-noted deadline will then be provided to a member of the Ministry’s Research and Technology Branch, who will arrange meetings with each EOI proponent and the Ministry program area who submitted the research question. Meetings will be held in early December through mid-January, to discuss the proponent’s EOI in advance of preparation of a full proposal.
Contact:
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
*Please note the registration deadline was December 10, 2024
The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:
- Create new knowledge through youth-led and/or youth-engaged research to improve the health and well-being of youth in Canada
- Enhance interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, and multi-systems approaches to youth health research and knowledge mobilization to strengthen research, shape policy, and support the relevance and uptake of research evidence.
- Increase capacity for youth-led and/or youth-engaged research, including researcher career pathways and among youth from a diversity of backgrounds to improve efficiency, amplify impact, and nurture a thriving, inclusive, and equitable health research environment.
- Strengthen research excellence and ensure maximum research impact through consideration of diverse biological and/or socio-cultural identity factors in research design, including diverse research methods such as those based in Indigenous ways of knowing.
Contact:
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
This is a joint initiative between the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The DMREF program offers a unique opportunity for Canadian academic researchers to team up with their US colleagues to build interdisciplinary teams of researchers working synergistically to build the fundamental knowledge base needed to advance the design and development of materials in pursuit of the following goals:
- Unify the Materials Innovation Infrastructure (MII), a framework of integrating advanced modelling, computational and experimental tools, and quantitative data
- Harness the power of materials data
- Educate, train, and connect the materials research and development workforce
Application deadline: February 4, 2025 @ 5:00 pm PT
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Mostafa Sabzevari, Research Project Officer, Applied Sciences and Engineering
seyedmostafa.sabzerari@unbc.ca
Partnership Grants are intended for large teams of postsecondary institutions and/or organizations of various types that work in formal collaboration. These grants provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over four to seven years to advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities. This is done through mutual co-operation and sharing of intellectual leadership, as well as through resources as shown by cash and/or in-kind contributions.
Partnership Grants undergo a two-stage merit review process. Only applicants successful in the Partnership Grants—Stage 1 process are invited to apply in Stage 2.
Stage 1: Applications successful in Stage 1 are awarded grants valued at up to $20,000. These funds help applicants prepare the Stage 2 application. Deadline: February 10, 2025
Stage 2 (by invitation only): Using the funds awarded in the successful Stage 1 application, Stage 2 applicants further refine the question(s) to be addressed; establish partnership arrangements, a governance structure and/or an approach/methodology; and consolidate their collaborative activities.
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
Please note the LOI deadline was December 12, 2024
The Trainee award provides salary support for talented post-doctoral or health professional researchers and develops their health research careers. The award also helps post-doctoral researchers increase their, and their labs’, research productivity.
Awards are $60,000 annually and a travel allowance of $4,500 annually for up to 3 years.
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
The objective of this funding opportunity is to recognize exemplary completed work and build capacity in the 6 cross-cutting research pools of a healthy research ecosystem in keeping with both the CIHR Strategic Plan 2021-31 and the CIHR-IMHA Strategic Plan 2021-26. The pools are: Indigenous Health Research, Open Science, Research Impact, Team Science, Patient Engagement, and Implementation Science. Some pools focus on approaches/methods/impacts rather than a specific research area, and therefore, may receive applications conducting projects from a variety of areas falling under the broad IMHA mandate areas.
Up to 3 prizes will be awarded for early career researcher nominated principal applicants in each pool in rank order. Prizes are valued at $25,000.
Please see the funding opportunity button below for more information on the pools and funds available.
Contact:
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
Research on Research is a joint initiative of SSHRC, CIHR, and Michael Smith Health Research BC. Research on research, also known as metaresearch, is the application of rigorous methods and analysis to the practice of research itself—its methods, standards and evaluation. This joint initiative aims to:
- build knowledge and understanding on metaresearch, i.e., the application of rigorous methods and analysis to the practice of research itself—its methods, incentives, standards and evaluation—and the practices of how that research is funded, communicated, applied and evaluated
- produce data on metaresearch that may have impacts on research and innovation policy and funding practices in Canada and other jurisdictions
- take part in knowledge mobilization among Canadian and international researchers, including members of RoRI’s consortium, to contribute to the development of research and innovation policies and research funding practices;
- provide training for students and highly qualified personnel
- build collaborations among researchers working on metaresearch, both in Canada and internationally
Application deadline: February 20, 2025
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
or
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
Stem Cell Network and Mitacs have developed a partnership through the Mitacs Accelerate program, which will support graduate students and postdoctoral fellows conducting research in regenerative medicine. Interns will share their time (eight months) between academic institutions and companies, to power life-saving therapies and technologies through regenerative medicine research for the benefit of all. This application cycle is for the Summer/Fall 2025 term (for projects beginning no earlier than August 2025) and will fund up to five intern positions. Recent graduates within two years of their degree and affiliated with an eligible academic institution are also eligible.
Successful eligible applicants from Stage 1 will be invited to submit a Mitacs Accelerate application by June 9, 2025.
Successful candidates are eligible for funding of $30,000 CAD, for two four-month terms, fully funded by both Mitacs and Stem Cell Network. The $30,000 award breaks down as follows:
$20,000 ($10,000 per term) as a mandatory minimum stipend
$10,000 for flexible research expenses which could be allocated towards consumables for the project, eligible travel and relocation expenses, or additional stipend.
Contact:
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
or
Mostafa Sabzevari, Research Project Officer - Applied Sciences and Engineering
Email: seyedmostafa.sabzevari@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5616
Please note the registration deadline of February 5, 2025
The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports research projects proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers, at any career stage, in all areas of health. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry; or knowledge translation approaches.
The Project Grant program is open to applicants in all areas of health research that are aligned with the CIHR mandate: "To excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system".
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
*Please note the LOI deadline was December 2, 2024 (2pm PST)
This Program encourages innovative, unorthodox, and exploratory research that may be in the early and conceptual stages of project development but has potential for significant impact on our understanding of the brain. The data generated will enable early-career researchers to apply for larger grants that will lead to long-term projects and create innovative and sustainable research programs.
This competition is open to early-career investigators within seven* years of starting their first independent research position.
*New: Brain Canada is implementing an extended eligibility window, in line with federal granting agencies, to account for the ongoing delays to research caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. For questions related to eligibility, including accounting for leaves of absence, please click the funding opportunity button and refer to the request for applications or contact futureleaders@braincanada.ca
Awards are $100,000 over 2 years.
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
Partnership Engage Grants provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors.
Application deadline: March 15, 2024 @ 5:00 pm PT
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
Please note the full application deadline of October 8, 2025 at 4:30 pm PT
The Advancing the Use of Evidence In Senior’s Home and Community Care Program aims to improve home and community care for seniors through a blend of supporting both implementation of evidence-based interventions in seniors’ home and community care and learning across health authorities, academic institutions, and communities. Development awards of up to $50,000 (with the possibility of up to $75,000 in exceptional cases) are available for a six-month term.
This opportunity supports teams of researchers and research users within the BC health system and academia to implement and evaluate outcomes of evidence-based interventions in seniors’ home and community care. It also contributes to and supports a culture of learning and evidence use within the BC health system, addressing the needs of seniors, communities and decision-makers. Applicants are encouraged to consider equity and how to include the perspectives of diverse communities and people with lived experience and community members in all aspects of their work.
Separate funding pools will be available for applications in Fraser Health, Interior Health, Island Health, Northern Health and Vancouver Coastal Health regions, along with a pool for multi-regional or cross-cutting projects, if needed.
Successful applicants from the LOI stage will receive development awards to support primary applicant co-leads, evaluation co-leads and health authority executive sponsors to develop plans to implement and evaluate an evidence-based intervention in seniors’ home and community care. They will also build their multidisciplinary teams (including healthcare decision-makers, healthcare providers, researchers, trainees and people with lived experience) to support the work.
Development award recipients will be invited to submit a full application.
Successful applicants at the full application stage will receive three-year team awards to carry out activities to implement interventions and evaluate both intervention and implementation outcomes.
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage with participants on research issues of value to them. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant can often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025 @ 5:00 pm PT
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
Destination Horizon Grants support researchers affiliated with eligible Canadian postsecondary institutions to build capacity, foster existing partnerships, and further develop networks and/or consortia with European Union and other “associated countries” researchers, with the ultimate goal of applying to Horizon Europe—Pillar II calls for proposals.
SSHRC will not fund the full cost of any Destination Horizon Grant. Additional support in the form of eligible cash contributions equivalent to 100% of the amount requested from SSHRC must come from the host institution.
Note that a postsecondary institution may only submit up to three Destination Horizon Grant applications for a given deadline. Therefore, any researchers interested in submitting a grant to this funding opportunity should contact the Office of Research and Innovation well in advance of the application deadline.
Application deadline: May 22, 2025 @ 5:00 pm PT
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
*Stage 1 LOIs to Health Research BC will be accepted: August 2024-June 30, 2025. Successful eligible applicants from Stage 1 will be invited to submit a Mitacs Accelerate or Mitacs Elevate application
Stage 2 Full Applications to Mitacs: July 31, 2025
Michael Smith Health Research BC (Health Research BC) and Mitacs are partnering through the Mitacs Accelerate and Mitacs Elevate programs to support graduate students and postdoctoral fellows across British Columbia to gain experience working with BC’s health system. Health Research BC is reducing the financial barrier for health organizations and municipalities to participate – you will be able to host an intern at a reduced cost equivalent to 25% of the Mitacs award amount (the regular organization contribution is 50%). Placements are expected to start between September 1, 2024 and September 1, 2025.
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage with participants on research issues of value to them. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant can often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.
Application Deadline: August 1, 2025 @ 5:00 pm PT
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
Destination Horizon Grants support researchers affiliated with eligible Canadian postsecondary institutions to build capacity, foster existing partnerships, and further develop networks and/or consortia with European Union and other “associated countries” researchers, with the ultimate goal of applying to Horizon Europe—Pillar II calls for proposals.
SSHRC will not fund the full cost of any Destination Horizon Grant. Additional support in the form of eligible cash contributions equivalent to 100% of the amount requested from SSHRC must come from the host institution.
Note that a postsecondary institution may only submit up to three Destination Horizon Grant applications for a given deadline. Therefore, any researchers interested in submitting a grant to this funding opportunity should contact the Office of Research and Innovation well in advance of the application deadline.
Application deadline: September 22, 2025 @ 5:00 pm PT
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage with participants on research issues of value to them. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant can often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.
Application Deadline: November 1, 2025 @ 5:00 pm PT
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
In November 2023, the Government of Canada closed substantive negotiations with the European Commission (EC) to increase collaboration under Horizon Europe, the world's largest research and innovation program involving countries around the globe. Now applications from Canadian researchers and innovators will be reviewed as fully-fledged members of consortia in Horizon Europe Pillar 2 calls. While Canadians can participate in all Horizon Europe calls that are open to international partners, as an associated country, Canadians can access a broader range of research opportunities in Pillar 2. Most Horizon Europe Pillar 2 projects require at least three partners from three different EU member states or associated countries.
Each programme within Horizon Europe launches project calls based on a pre-established work programme under each thematic area. See the below funding description for a link to a list of funding opportunities and deadlines.
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of submission to the funding agency. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via Romeo. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean Approval.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer - Natural Sciences
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
or
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
or
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
or
Mostafa Sabzevari, Research Project Officer - Applied Sciences and Engineering
seyedmostafa.sabzevari@unbc.ca
Environment and Climate Change Canada offers funding through various Grants and Contributions programs. Eligible groups, organizations and individuals can apply for support of projects that protect or conserve our natural environment.
For a full list of funding programs and deadlines, please see the funding description below.
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the application deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
Put your talent to work with an organization that needs it and apply your skills in a non-academic environment. Accelerate grants are open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Agency application deadline: continuous intake. Allow six to eight weeks for peer review.
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the agency deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via Romeo. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer - Natural Sciences
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
or
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
or
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
or
Mostafa Sabzevari, Research Project Officer - Applied Sciences and Engineering
seyedmostafa.sabzevari@unbc.ca
The Mitacs Globalink Research Award provides $6,000 for senior undergraduate and graduate students in Canada to conduct 12–24-week research projects at universities outside of Canada.
Agency application deadline: continuous intake.
Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of submission to the agency for review and signature.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer - Natural Sciences
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
or
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
or
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
or
Mostafa Sabzevari, Research Project Officer - Applied Sciences and Engineering
seyedmostafa.sabzevari@unbc.ca
Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led by strong, complementary, collaborative teams that will generate new knowledge and accelerate the application of research results to create benefits for Canada.
Alliance Advantage grants (formerly Alliance cost-sharing option 1) are for partner-driven projects. They fund projects focused on the partners’ goals, with at least one partner sharing in the costs of research.
Application deadline: Continuous Intake. Allow 5-24 weeks for the review process (depending on the size of the project).
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of submission to the funding agency. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via Romeo. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean Approval.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer - Natural Sciences
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
or
Mostafa Sabzevari, Research Project Officer - Applied Sciences and Engineering
seyedmostafa.sabzevari@unbc.ca
Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led by strong, complementary, collaborative teams that will generate new knowledge and accelerate the application of research results to create benefits for Canada.
Alliance Society grants (formerly Alliance cost-sharing option 2) fund projects with societal impact as the main driver.
Application deadline: Continuous Intake. Allow 14-24 weeks for the review process.
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of submission to the funding agency. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via Romeo. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean Approval.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer - Natural Sciences
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
or
Mostafa Sabzevari, Research Project Officer - Applied Sciences and Engineering
seyedmostafa.sabzevari@unbc.ca
Alliance International Grants will provide support for researchers in Canada to work with leading international researchers from the academic sector, and to establish and grow international research collaborations and projects that have a high potential for impact in NSE disciplines.
Funding is available via two streams:
- Catalyst grants will provide up to $25,000 in funding for one year to support Canadian researchers in initiating international research collaborations in the NSE disciplines.
- Collaboration grants will provide up to $100,000 per year for up to three years to allow Canadian researchers to participate in international projects and leverage the best international expertise in the NSE disciplines to help address research challenges of impact and benefit for Canada.
Deadline: Continuous Intake. Allow at least 5-9 weeks for the review process (plus additional time for Collaboration grants to allow for the international funding agency’s peer-review of the proposal submitted by the international collaborator[s]).
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of submission to the funding agency. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via Romeo. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean Approval.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer - Natural Sciences
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
or
Mostafa Sabzevari, Research Project Officer - Applied Sciences and Engineering
seyedmostafa.sabzevari@unbc.ca
Mitacs Elevate supports research projects in all disciplines. The program supports postdoctoral fellows for up to 2 years (with a partner organization). The program includes professional development training opportunities.
Please contact a Mitacs Representative to discuss the eligibility of a Not-For-Profit organization, and the eligibility of projects with hospitals, or municipalities before submitting an application package.
Application Deadline: Continuous Intake
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of submitting an application to Mitacs. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via ROMEO. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer - Natural Sciences
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
or
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
or
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
or
Mostafa Sabzevari, Research Project Officer - Applied Sciences and Engineering
seyedmostafa.sabzevari@unbc.ca
The Society for Ecosystem Restoration (SERNbc) provides seed funding for new projects that follow the SERNbc guiding principles of ecosystem restoration.
Potential applicants are required to submit a preliminary application to the SERNbc Project Review Committee. Where necessary, the Committee may request additional information to make a decision. The SERNbc Coordinator will contact those applicants who have been selected to submit full proposals.
Application Deadline: Continuous Intake
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of submission to the funding agency. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via Romeo. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean Approval.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
Project Learning Tree Canada's Green Jobs program provides a 50% or 80% wage match, with up to $32,000 CAD in reimbursements, to employers hiring youth aged 15-30 into Green Jobs. A Green Job is one that supports nature-based solutions for a more sustainable planet. Green jobs are typically involved in, but not limited to, jobs in the forest sector, parks, conservation, natural resource management, environmental education, sustainable food systems, climate change, carbon sequestration, species maintenance and recovery, water quality and quantity, and more.
Application Deadline: Continuous Intake
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of submission to the funding agency. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via Romeo. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean Approval.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
Together with their partners, the Rio Tinto Aluminium Fund Canada aims to deliver long term social and economic benefits for the communities in which they operate and broader society. The Fund encourages programmes and initiatives that align with their priority areas, which include education, environment, health and community liveability.
Application deadline: Continuous Intake
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of submission to the funding agency. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via Romeo. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean Approval.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer - Natural Sciences
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
or
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer- Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
or
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629
or Mostafa Sabzevari, Research Project Officer - Applied Sciences and Engineering
seyedmostafa.sabzevari@unbc.ca
The Pacific Salmon Foundation makes grants to organizations that undertake Pacific salmon conservation and restoration or science and research. Sometimes, when necessary, the Foundation will actually spearhead and execute a specific project. These are typically larger-scale, strategically-critical projects that would otherwise not be undertaken without the Foundation’s involvement. The Foundation partners with government agencies, other non-profits, businesses and volunteers to make Partnered Initiatives successful. Partnered Initiatives are subject to the same level of technical review required of applicants to the Foundation’s Community Salmon Program, though there is more flexibility in terms of match and volunteer requirements.
Application Deadline: Continuous Intake
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of submission to the funding agency. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via Romeo. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean Approval.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
Eligible employers can receive a wage subsidy of up to $25,000 and up to $5,000 for skills development, training, and wrap-around services to hire recent post-secondary graduates. Program funding is aimed at employers in the environmental science, technology, engineering and mathematics sectors.
Programs are offered through one of our four delivery organizations:
- BioTalent Canada is a national, non-profit organization that facilitates research, skills development and various projects to support professionals in the Canadian biotechnology industry.
- Clean Foundation is a non-profit organization that focuses on green solutions in the areas of energy efficiency, water health, waste reduction and sustainable transportation in Atlantic Canada.
- Colleges and Institutes Canada is a national organization that champions innovation, applied research and employment opportunities addressing climate change and other environmental challenges.
- ECO Canada is a national organization that specializes in environmental labour market research and provides employment and training resources to environmental professionals.
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of submission to the funding agency. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via Romeo. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean Approval.
Contact:
Jacqui Dockray, Research Project Officer
Email: jacqueline.dockray@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-6357
Support innovative medical research and practices, particularly in the treatment of cancer.
Application Deadline: There are three funding cycles each year. Applications are accepted at any time.
***Applicants should telephone the Foundation to discuss their project ahead of submitting a proposal***
Applications must be received in the Office of Research and Innovation a minimum of 5 business days in advance of the agency deadline. Applications must be submitted to the Office of Research and Innovation via Romeo. Please allow enough time for Chair and Dean approval.
Contact:
Crystal Carpenter, Research Project Officer - Health
Email: crystal.carpenter@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5686
The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) Scholarly Book Awards, formally the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, funds scholarly books in Canada that make important contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
Applications are accepted and evaluated continuously throughout the year.
Contact:
Sharleen Balogh, Research Project Officer - Social Sciences and Humanities
Email: sharleen.balogh@unbc.ca
Phone: 250-960-5629