Open NSERC (Canada) funding calls

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada funds discovery research, partnerships, research tools and training in the natural sciences and engineering. 42 open calls, soonest deadline first.

• Research Tools and Instruments grants program
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 150,000Deadline: October 26, 2026 ·
• Subatomic Physics Research Tools and Instruments grants program
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)CAD 7,001 – CAD 150,000Deadline: October 26, 2026 ·
• Discovery Grants – Northern Research Supplements program
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 25,000Deadline: November 2, 2026 ·
• Discovery Grants program (individual)
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Not specifiedDeadline: November 2, 2026 ·
• Discovery Institutes Support grants
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 1,500,000Deadline: November 2, 2026 ·
• DND/NSERC Discovery Grant Supplements
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 120,000Deadline: November 2, 2026 ·
• NSERC-Alberta Innovates Advance Grants - Stream II
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 150,000Deadline: November 2, 2026 ·
• Subatomic Physics Discovery Grants program (individual)
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Not specifiedDeadline: November 2, 2026 ·
• Subatomic Physics Discovery Grants program (project)
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Not specifiedDeadline: November 2, 2026 ·
• NSERC Geoffrey Hinton Prizes
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 100,000Deadline: November 5, 2026 ·
• NSERC Awards for Science Promotion
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 10,000Deadline: November 15, 2026 ·
• Applied Research Tools and Instruments grants
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)CAD 10,000 – CAD 200,000Deadline: November 18, 2026 ·
• Alliance International Collaboration grants
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)CAD 20,000 – CAD 100,000Deadline: November 25, 2026 ·
• The Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 250,000Deadline: November 28, 2026 ·
• Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 1,000,000Deadline: November 28, 2026 ·
• NSERC Donna Strickland Prize for Societal Impact of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 250,000Deadline: November 28, 2026 ·
• NSERC John C. Polanyi Award
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 250,000Deadline: November 28, 2026 ·
• Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Master’s program
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 27,000Deadline: December 1, 2026 ·
• Synergy Awards for Innovation
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 200,000Deadline: December 4, 2026 ·
• Arthur B. McDonald Fellowships
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 250,000Deadline: December 14, 2026 ·
• Environment and Climate Change Canada Atmospheric and Meteorological graduate supplement
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 5,000Deadline: June 1, 2027 ·
• Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral program
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 40,000Deadline: October 17, 2027 ·
• Alliance Advantage
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)CAD 20,000 – CAD 1,000,000Deadline: Not listed
• Alliance Quantum grants call for proposals: Advancing the development and adoption of quantum technologies in Canada
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)CAD 100,000 – CAD 650,000Deadline: Not listed
• Alliance Society
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)CAD 20,000 – CAD 500,000Deadline: Not listed
• Applied Research and Development grants
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 150,000Deadline: Not listed
• Canadian Forest Sector Workforce Diversity supplement
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 5,000Deadline: Not listed
• Discovery Development Grants
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Not specifiedDeadline: Not listed
• Discovery Launch Supplements
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 12,500Deadline: Not listed
• DND/NSERC supplemental funding award
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Not specifiedDeadline: Not listed
• Environment and Climate Change Canada Atmospheric and Meteorological undergraduate supplement
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Not specifiedDeadline: Not listed
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada Aquatic Science supplement
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 10,000Deadline: Not listed
• Idea to Innovation grants
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Not specifiedDeadline: Not listed
• NSERC Alliance and Alberta Innovates Campus Alberta Small Business Engagement (CASBE) Stream II
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Not specifiedDeadline: Not listed
• NSERC Alliance grants and Ontario Centre of Innovation Collaborate 2 Commercialize
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Not specifiedDeadline: Not listed
• NSERC Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate grants
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Not specifiedDeadline: Not listed
• NSERC-FRQ NOVA program for junior researchers
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 75,000Deadline: Not listed
• NSERC Indigenous Student Ambassadors
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Not specifiedDeadline: Not listed
• NSERC-National Science Foundation – Collaboration on quantum science and artificial intelligence
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Not specifiedDeadline: Not listed
• Supplement for Research in the Field of Impact Assessment
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 10,000Deadline: Not listed
• Systematics Research graduate supplement
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 5,000Deadline: Not listed
• Undergraduate Student Research Awards
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Up to CAD 6,000Deadline: Not listed