Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Open calls

Closing soonest first, then calls with no fixed deadline. Updated November 4, 2026.

• NSERC Geoffrey Hinton Prizes
  Deadline: November 5, 2026 · Up to CAD 100,000
• NSERC Awards for Science Promotion
  Deadline: November 15, 2026 · Up to CAD 10,000
• Applied Research Tools and Instruments grants
  Deadline: November 18, 2026 · CAD 10,000 – CAD 200,000
• Alliance International Collaboration grants
  Deadline: November 25, 2026 · CAD 20,000 – CAD 100,000
• Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering
  Deadline: November 28, 2026 · Up to CAD 1,000,000
• NSERC Donna Strickland Prize for Societal Impact of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
  Deadline: November 28, 2026 · Up to CAD 250,000
• NSERC John C. Polanyi Award
  Deadline: November 28, 2026 · Up to CAD 250,000
• The Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering
  Deadline: November 28, 2026 · Up to CAD 250,000
• NSERC-Alberta Innovates Advance Grants - Stream II
  Deadline: November 30, 2026 · Up to CAD 150,000
• Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Master’s program
  Deadline: December 1, 2026 · Up to CAD 27,000
• Synergy Awards for Innovation
  Deadline: December 4, 2026 · Up to CAD 200,000
• Arthur B. McDonald Fellowships
  Deadline: December 14, 2026 · Up to CAD 250,000
• Environment and Climate Change Canada Atmospheric and Meteorological graduate supplement
  Deadline: June 1, 2027 · Up to CAD 5,000
• Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral program
  Deadline: October 17, 2027 · Up to CAD 40,000
• Alliance Advantage
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedCAD 20,000 – CAD 1,000,000
• Alliance Quantum grants call for proposals: Advancing the development and adoption of quantum technologies in Canada
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedCAD 100,000 – CAD 650,000
• Alliance Society
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedCAD 20,000 – CAD 500,000
• Applied Research and Development grants
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedUp to CAD 150,000
• Canadian Forest Sector Workforce Diversity supplement
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedUp to CAD 5,000
• DND/NSERC supplemental funding award
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
• Environment and Climate Change Canada Atmospheric and Meteorological undergraduate supplement
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada Aquatic Science supplement
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedUp to CAD 10,000
• Idea to Innovation grants
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
• NSERC Alliance and Alberta Innovates Campus Alberta Small Business Engagement (CASBE) Stream II
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
• NSERC Alliance grants and Ontario Centre of Innovation Collaborate 2 Commercialize
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
• NSERC Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate grants
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
• NSERC Indigenous Student Ambassadors
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
• NSERC-FRQ NOVA program for junior researchers
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedUp to CAD 75,000
• NSERC-National Science Foundation – Collaboration on quantum science and artificial intelligence
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
• Supplement for Research in the Field of Impact Assessment
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedUp to CAD 10,000
• Systematics Research graduate supplement
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedUp to CAD 5,000
• Undergraduate Student Research Awards
  Rolling: no fixed deadline listedUp to CAD 6,000