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Objective

• To strengthen Canada’s cancer clinical research ecosystem by supporting high-quality, investigator-driven clinical trials that address unmet clinical needs and have the potential to improve care and outcomes for people affected by cancer.
• To enable innovative, patient focused research that might otherwise remain unfunded and to ensure that practice-changing ideas have a clear route into clinical testing and impact.

To meet the diverse needs of investigator-initiated clinical research, the program includes the following two distinct streams. The streams are designed to support a continuum of clinical development, from early-stage feasibility studies to larger-scale trials with the potential to influence clinical practice.

Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Trials â€“ intended to support early-stage, exploratory clinical studies that establish feasibility, safety, and preliminary evidence of efficacy. These projects are typically hypothesis-generating and aim to de-risk innovative approaches prior to larger-scale evaluation.

Key characteristics:

• Early-phase or exploratory clinical studies
• Limited patient population
• Focus on feasibility, safety, and/or preliminary signals of efficacy
• May include novel interventions, combinations, or biomarker-driven approachesÌý

Full Clinical Trials (Phase I-II)– intended to support more advanced investigator-initiated studies that build on existing evidence and are positioned to influence clinical practice or standard of care.

Key characteristics:

• Later-phase or more mature clinical studies
• Strong scientific and clinical rationale supported by preliminary data
• Designed to generate robust evidence on efficacy, safety, or comparative effectiveness
• Potential to inform clinical guidelines or practice

Eligibility

Projects must involve direct testing of an intervention in human participants and may include early-stage exploratory studies as well as Phase I or Phase II clinical trials. All proposals must be operationally ready with a clear and feasible implementation plan at the time of the application submission.

Please refer to the  for information on eligible and ineligible project types.

Research Team

Projects must be supported by a qualified, multidisciplinary team and, where appropriate, should include:

• Clinical investigators with domain expertise
• Biostatistical and methodological experts
• Operational and trial management personnel
• Data management and regulatory personnel
• Knowledge translation specialists
• People with lived and living experience of cancer

Information Webinar

A webinar will be held on May 1, 2026, from 12:00-1:00 pm (ET) to present the program’s requirements and application procedures. Register .

How to Apply

For Full Clinical Trial applications with budgets over $1M, please send all materials to Diana Frasca, SIRI team (dfrasca@yorku.ca).

Please contact your Faculty Research Office for information on their internal deadlines.

For more information on this funding opportunity, please consult the following links:

• For more information, consult the CRSÌý
• Guidelines: availableÌý

¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency.  For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature.  Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed  to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.

ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined .

For specific questions, please contact FSc Research Services at sciapps@yorku.ca

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To support large-scale research infrastructure that enables internationally competitive research and generates social, health, environmental, and economic benefits.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants are institution-based research teams led by a principal investigator (PI) proposing large-scale research infrastructure projects with total costs exceeding $1 million. Projects must align with institutional strategic priorities and demonstrate the potential to enable internationally competitive research. For York-led proposals, applicants must complete an internal selection process, including submission of an internal Notice of Intent (iNOI) and participation in a pitch session. Externally-led proposals are also eligible but require submission of a proposal outline. All proposals must demonstrate appropriate infrastructure needs, available space, and team expertise.

How to Apply

Attached are the iNOI form and the Facilities Services Form.

¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency.  For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature.  Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed  to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.

ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined .

For specific questions, please contact FSc Research Services at sciapps@yorku.ca

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Researchers applying for SSHRC funds must submit all supplementary SSHRC documents through theÌýÌýby 10:00 am on October 28, 2026, for ORS to provide institutional approval and forward documents to SSHRC for peer review.

Objective

• Catalyze and support transnational research teams from countries on both sides of the Atlantic, and beyond the North/South divide, to advance key insights from social sciences and humanities (SSH) research.
• Support innovative interdisciplinary research proposals, where appropriate, that contribute to the understanding of challenges and opportunities related to societies and strategies in times of transition.
• Encourage the co-development of robust and sustainable work programs with communities and key stakeholders, including local, regional, national, and international policymakers.
• Encourage diversity in research teams, including providing training and support to early-career researchers.

Research projects should address one or more of the following objectives:

1. Strengthen conceptual frameworks and (descriptive, explanatory, or normative) theories related to foresight, crises, and collective response strategies.
2. Identify and/or assess interventions, strategies, and governance structures aimed at enhancing resilience, prevention, and preparedness for future crises and opportunities.
3. Provide empirical case studies illustrating how past, contemporary regional collectives perceive future opportunities and risks, and how they prepare for them.
4. Investigate how disruptive technologies and new media shape both the emergence and perception of future opportunities and crises.

This call research projects focused on the following themes:

• Uncertainty: Sources, Costs, Communication, and Improvement
• The Many Faces of the Future and Crisis: Historical, Cultural, and Regional Perspectives
• Scope and Coordination of Response Strategies
• Normative Inquiry into Prevention and Preparation of Future Crises

Eligibility

This call is open only to research projects that:

• comprise at least threeÌýeligible Co-Principal Investigators from at least threeÌýdifferent T-APÌýparticipating countries from both sides of the Atlantic. (Research partners will receive funding from the national funding agency for their country)
• nominate one of the Co-Principal Investigators as the project’s lead Principal Investigator (PI)

How to Apply

Please contact your Faculty Research Office for information on their internal deadlines.

¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency.  For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature.  Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed  to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.

ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined .

For specific questions, please contact FSc Research Services at sciapps@yorku.ca

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In response to the revolutionary potential promised by the integration of autonomous systems into defence and security operations, the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces (DND/CAF) are seeking to advance methods to assess, calibrate, and maintain trust in real-time when humans work with autonomous systems.

IDEaS funding will help develop a research micro-net to stimulate collaboration and build networks of expertise in support of Canada’s current and future defence and security needs.

DND/CAF is seeking innovative solutions to independently assess and calibrate trust for autonomous systems to maintain technological sovereignty and enhance safety, resilience, and collaborative performance.

This challenge aims specifically to support Canada’s NORAD Modernization Plan ().

Eligibility

Proposals must include multidisciplinary teams of partners from at least three separate eligible organizations and/or institutions, one of which must be a Canadian university.

How to Apply

Applicants must notify their Faculty and the Office of Research Services (Maheen Hasan – mhasan@yorku.ca) as soon as possible about their intention to apply.  Doing so will both streamline the process of securing Faculty-level support for their proposal, and ensure that researchers receive adequate support in application preparation.

SIRI will provide a full review of the completed proposal, which may take up to 10 working days, in advance of submission to IDEaS. Completed applications should be submitted to Maheen Hasan, SIRI Specialist (mhasan@yorku.ca).

¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency.  For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature.  Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed  to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.

ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined .

For specific questions, please contact FSc Research Services at sciapps@yorku.ca

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The scholarships will enable researchers from Ireland to spend 3–6 weeks at a Canadian university, and Canadian researchers to spend the same period at a university on the island of Ireland.

We welcome proposals from all academic disciplines. Some projects may focus directly on the dynamics of conflict and reconciliation; others may address the wider conditions that enable societies to live in peace. Together, these form two broad but connected themes:

• Pathways to PeaceÌý– the processes of negotiation, mediation, reconciliation, and conflict resolution that build and secure peace.
• Grounds for HopeÌý– the contexts and practices that help peace settle, grow, and become durable, including governance, law, economics, health, environment, culture, and identity.

Applicants are encouraged to be imaginative in connecting their discipline to these themes. For example, research might explore conflict mediation, the resilience of democratic institutions, environmental sustainability, health systems, cultural identity, or the perspectives of Indigenous peoples on land and community.

The programme recognises that Indigenous knowledge plays a central role in shaping peaceful and sustainable societies and seeks to create space for these voices within the exchange between Ireland and Canada.

Eligibility

Awards will be made toÌýEmerging ScholarsÌý(within seven years of their PhD, following common European research-funding practice) andÌýEstablished Scholars, with all recipients holding the title De Chastelain Scholar.ÌýÌýApplicants without a PhDÌýare eligible where they demonstrate an established academic or research practice of equivalent standing.ÌýUp to half of scholarships each year will be reserved for Emerging Scholars.

How to Apply

¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency.  For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature.  Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed  to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.

ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined .

For specific questions, please contact FSc Research Services at sciapps@yorku.ca

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ACU Gender Grants help member universities meet the costs of organizing projects promoting gender equity and equality in their institutions. The ACU Gender Grants can be used for a , workshops, and events in areas such as: 

• Supporting women in leadership
• Raising awareness of sexual harassment and developing anti-sexual harassment initiatives
• Supporting women in science and research
• Creating effective institutional policies
• Mainstreaming gender equity into the curriculumÌý
• To help meet the costs of organising projects that promote gender equity and equality.

How to Apply

¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency.  For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature.  Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed  to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.

ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined .

For specific questions, please contact FSc Research Services at sciapps@yorku.ca

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WorkplaceNL’s Research Initiatives Program provides funding for workplace health and safety research to inform the development of innovative solutions to prevent workplace injuries and support return to work following an injury.

WorkplaceNL assesses proposals based on:  

• Researcher expertise
• Proposal quality
• Alignment with strategic priorities  

Research must be conducted in Canada, and research participants must be in Canada.

Eligibility

An eligible organization must be in Canada and a:  

1. Publicly funded university or college;
2. Public hospital or health authority with a specialized research area;
3. Non-government organization that has the capability and capacity to conduct research and are not privately owned or operated; or 
4. Public, community or industry organization partnering with another eligible organization that falls within categories 1-3 above  

How to Apply

¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency.  For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature.  Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed  to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.

ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined .

For specific questions, please contact FSc Research Services at sciapps@yorku.ca

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For applications with budgets less than $750K (email to:Ìýresearchapps@yorku.ca):

For applications with budgets of $750K or greater (email to:Ìýmhasan@yorku.ca):

All researchers must notify both their Faculty Research Office and the Office of Research Services (Maheen Hasan – mhasan@yorku.ca) as soon as possible about their intention to apply. 

The following table outlines key dates and milestones of the application process:

Please note that applications requesting a total budget of less than $750,000 will be reviewed by the Grants Team at ORS. Applications requesting a budget of $750,000 or greater will be reviewed by the Strategic Institutional Research Initiatives (SIRI) unit. To signal your intent to apply for applications with budgets over $750K, please contact Maheen Hasan (mhasan@yorku.ca) from the SIRI team as soon as possible.

IMPORTANT: Please note that proposals that include partner organizations from the private sector will be required to complete a . Applications led by York researchers must have their NSGRP form reviewed and approved by the Office of Safeguarding Research, and written confirmation of such must be provided to ORS at the time of submission. Please reference the Office of Safeguarding Research  when completing the NSGRP form. Please note that a copy of the application and completed NSGRP form must be sent to the Office of Safeguarding Research (researchsecurity@yorku.ca) a minimum of 10 business days in advance of the agency deadline.

Objective

Proposals may address any challenges in quantum science, but the proposals’ thrust must aim to advance one or more of the Government of Canada’s  through the development of any of the following areas of quantum technologies, or a combination thereof:

• quantum algorithms/encryption, including post-quantum cryptography
• quantum communications
• quantum computing
• quantum materials
• quantum sensing

Proposals may also couple any of these quantum technology thrusts to other research topics in the natural sciences and engineering. Proposals should align with the action plans set out in the NQS .

Eligibility Institution

University

How to Apply

¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency.  For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature.  Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed  to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.

ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined .

For specific questions, please contact FSc Research Services at sciapps@yorku.ca

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The aim of the program is to enhance universities’ research collaboration between Canada and South Africa on areas of mutual interest, with an additional goal of capacity development and inclusivity. The Seed Grants will support researchers affiliated with eligible South African and Canadian postsecondary institutions to build capacity, foster new and existing partnerships, and develop networks and/or consortia among the Canadian and South African research communities.

The NRF-SSHRC will support projects in following five prioritized themes:

1. Just and Resilient SocietiesÌý(topics: reconciliation, diversity, gender equality, the rule of law, democratization, security, good governance, addressing poverty, ethical environmental practices, quality education, Indigenous knowledge systems)Ìý
2. Environmental SustainabilityÌý(topics: sustainable and climate resilient agricultural systems, food security, pollution, clean energy, renewable energy, energy transitions, clean water, sustainable sourcing)
3. Artificial IntelligenceÌý(topics: technological futures, smart transport systems, nanotechnology, urbanization – smart cities, informed policymaking, digital economy, digital innovation, digital infrastructure, big data and data science)
4. Sustainable GrowthÌý(topics: critical minerals and supply chains, advancing AfCFTA, innovation in the Blue Economy, infrastructure, green economy, labour supply/skills development)
5. Mathematics Education

Note: Canadian PIs must propose to undertake research and research related activities only in disciplines, thematic areas, approaches or subject areas that are .

Eligibility

The Principal Investigator for the Canadian and South African teams must be in possession of a PhD to be eligible. Each proposal must nominate one main applicant based in South Africa and one main applicant based in Canada. These will serve as the Principal Investigators (PIs) on the South African and Canadian sides. The PIs will bear the main responsibility for the project, including its technical and administrative coordination, as well as the timely delivery of scientific and financial reports. A researcher cannot serve as a PI on more than one proposal.

Researchers from subject matter experts, private companies/industries, and NGOs cannot serve as PIs but can form part of the joint projects and will be expected to meet their own costs of participation in the joint projects. Neither NRF nor SSHRC grants can be used to support these researchers.

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How to Apply

¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency.  For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature.  Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed  to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.

ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined .

For specific questions, please contact FSc Research Services at sciapps@yorku.ca

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The purpose of the program is to help Canada's search and rescue teams work faster, smarter, save money, and develop new ways to prevent and respond to emergencies.

To achieve this, SAR NIF funding supports projects that:

• help search and rescue responses be more effective in federal, provincial and territorial jurisdictions
• improve the search and rescue community's ability to share response and prevention best practices
• promote safe activities to reduce the need for search and rescue operations

Eligibility

This call is open to:

• Canadian not-for-profit and volunteer organizations
• Governments (provincial, territorial, regional, municipal or Indigenous)
• Canadian universities and educational institutions
• Indigenous organizations
• For-profit Canadian organizations, if the project and its intended outcome do not result in a profit for the organization

As these are institutional applications, all interested applications must obtain approval from ORS prior to submission and will be supported by the Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives (SIRI) team. See application process and deadline section below.

How to Apply

Any researchers who wish to pursue this opportunity must notify both their Faculty Research Office and Diana Frasca (dfrasca@yorku.ca)Ìýas soon as possible about their intention to apply.

¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency.  For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature.  Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed  to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.

ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined .

For specific questions, please contact FSc Research Services at sciapps@yorku.ca

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