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Agencies:
  • Mitacs: Globalink Research Award

    Agency / Company: Mitacs

    Grant Amount: $6000

    Supports trainees’ participation in a research exchange program. Please contact the Research and Graduate Studies for more information researchoffice@ubishops.ca.

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  • Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA)

    Agency / Company: USRA

    Grant Amount: $6000

    Supports supervisors in the recruitment of undergraduate students for the fall or winter terms. Contact Research and Graduate Studies researchoffice@ubishops.ca.

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  • The Canadian Glycomics Network (GlycoNet): 2025-2026 Funding Competitions

    Agency / Company: The Canadian Glycomics Network (GlycoNet)

    Grant Amount: Up to $150,000 plus match over one year

    Application Deadline: Rolling throughout the year GlycoNet is a national research network focused on the role of glycans in health and sustainable agri-food systems. Translational Grants support mature projects that are ready for translation and commercialization, including activities such as pre-clinical studies and synthesis scale-up. Strategic Initiative Grants support partner-led projects that address research needs

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  • Horizon Europe work programmes

    Agency / Company: Horizon Europe

    Work programmes set out funding opportunities under Horizon Europe.

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  • Horizon Europe

    Agency / Company: Horizon Europe

    Horizon Europe is the European Union’s (EU) latest research and innovation framework funding program. It supports the creation, distribution, and advancement of science- and evidence-based solutions to the world’s most important challenges. The program fosters opportunities for international collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in tackling major global challenges. This includes:

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  • MAPAQ – programme Innovation bioalimentaire

    Agency / Company: MAPAQ

    Grant Amount: L’aide financière couvre 70 % des dépenses admissibles, jusqu’à concurrence de 57 500 $ pour les projets de catégories A et B, 143 750 $ pour les projets de catégorie C et 5 750 $ pour les projets de catégorie D

    Application Deadline: November 24, 2025

    Volet 5 – Soutien au transfert de connaissances et à la diffusion​  Favoriser l’adoption de nouvelles pratiques par les entreprises bioalimentaires par la réalisation de projets liés au transfert de connaissances, de pratiques et de technologies issues des résultats de recherche.

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  • Smart Loire Valley Programme

    Agency / Company: Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies

    Application Deadline: January 29, 2026

    The Smart Loire Valley Programme aims to support high-quality research and international collaborative research projects, to build human capacity and scientific knowledge for research, development and innovation by attracting talented, highly qualified researchers worldwide and from all academic disciplines. Researchers have to embody, in their profile, the key words that capture the research values of LE

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  • Universities Canada & The Japan Foundation – Tanaka Fund Grant to Support Promising Junior Japanese Studies Scholars

    Agency / Company: Universities Canada

    Grant Amount: up to $12,000

    Application Deadline: January 30, 2026

    Universities Canada and The Japan Foundation are pleased to announce the launch of the 2026 competition for the Tanaka Fund Grant to Support Promising Junior Japanese Studies Scholars. This funding opportunity is for Master’s and Doctoral level students. Japanese Studies is defined as a subcategory of area studies centered around social sciences and humanities research

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  • Explore Research Program – Protecting Canada’s Freshwater

    Agency / Company: CSA Group

    Grant Amount: up to $150,000 over two years

    Application Deadline: June 1, 2026

    CSA Group is pleased to announce the launch of the Explore Research Program, a new forward-looking research effort designed to support projects that help Canada anticipate and address emerging challenges.  Proposals are welcome from any discipline, including engineering, computer science, social sciences, policy, public health, environmental sciences, and more. CSA group will aim to fund projects

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  • CSA – Securing Canada’s Communications Future

    Agency / Company: CSA Group

    Grant Amount: up to $150,000 over two years

    Application Deadline: June 1, 2026

    CSA Group is pleased to announce the launch of the Explore Research Program, a new forward-looking research effort designed to support projects that help Canada anticipate and address emerging challenges. To help secure Canada’s critical communications systems, we will need to look across disciplines to understand and identify how Canada can address the myriad risks threatening

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  • Canada-China Scholars’ Exchange Program

    Agency / Company: Global Affairs Canada

    Application Deadline: June 30, 2026

    The program provides funding for Chinese Scholars (Full-time teaching or research staff at Chinese universities or other research institutions) to undertake research exchanges in Canada for up to 12 months.  The program primarily supports research related to Canada studies, with a focus on the social sciences and humanities, and presents an opportunity for Canadian post-secondary

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  • Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants

    Agency / Company: Burroughs Wellcome Fund

    Grant Amount: Seed grants of $2,500-$50,000 USD per project for activities conducted over up to 1 year.

    Application Deadline: July 23, 2026

    The Burroughs Wellcome Fund aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields, who, together, may change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Between Fall 2023 and Summer 2026, we will dedicate $1 million to supporting small, early-stage grants of $2,500–$50,000 toward achieving this goal. We

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  • New Frontiers in Research Fund – 2026 International Joint Initiative for Research Harnessing Disruptive Technologies to Address Global Challenges

    Agency / Company: Government of Canada

    Application Deadline: November 3, 2026

    Letter of Intent Deadline: 03/03/2026

    The International Joint Initiative for Research Harnessing Disruptive Technologies to Address Global Challenges represents a collaboration among research funders from the Åland Islands, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom to support international, interdisciplinary and transformative research aimed at harnessing disruptive technology

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For more information, please contact the Research Office at researchoffice@ubishops.ca.