Scholarships and Fellowships

Visit the relevant program webpages to learn how COVID-19 may affect scholarship and fellowship competition deadlines:

• Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s Program
  The release of results in the Research Portal is postponed from April 1 to April 15, 2020.
• Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral Program
  • The 2020 CGS D competition will be launched July 29, 2020. No changes to 2020 application deadlines at this time (October 17 for direct applicants and November 21 for university applicants).
• Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships
• Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships
  The launch of the 2020 competition is postponed until June 1, 2020. The application deadline is set for October 1, 2020.
• Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements

Funding opportunities

• Operating Grant : Clinical Research Infrastructure Support for COVID-19 (May 19, 2020)
• Operating Grant: CRISM Urgent Guideline Activities Related to COVID-19 (April 29, 2020)
• Knowledge Synthesis Grant: COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity in Mental Health and Substance Use (April 29, 2020)
• Notice of upcoming funding opportunities: Mental Health and Substance Use Responses to COVID-19 (April 24, 2020)
• Operating Grant: COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity (May 2020) (April 23, 2020)
• Operating Grant : WHO Solidarity Trial Scale-Up Funding Opportunity (April 23, 2020)
• Operating Grant : Sex as a Biological Variable Supplement: COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity (April 21, 2020)
  • Why sex and gender need to be considered in COVID-19 research
• NRC COVID-19 response:
  • The COVID-19 Challenges Procurement Program
  • The Pandemic Response Challenge Program
• Provincial COVID-19 resources