Deadline Dates

Daniel Langlois Foundation

Funding Programs

The Daniel Langlois Foundation provides funds to further artistic and scientific knowledge by fostering the meeting of art and science in the field of technologies; to promote contemporary artistic practices that use digital technologies to express aesthetic and critical forms of discourse; to encourage interdisciplinary research and to sustain the development of projects calling for cooperation between people from a variety of fields such as artists, scientists and technologists or engineers. The first call for projects in January, 1999 gave nearly $1 million for 13 projects.

Deadline: Jan. 31

SSHRC Federations and Federalism Program:

Virtual Institute Grants

The Federations and Federalism Program is intended to further our understanding of federalism and of the relationship between federalism and public policy; to develop a more complete understanding of the operating and evolution of intergovernmental processes, structures and institutions; to contextualize the Canadian experience by studying Canadian federalism in a comparative fashion; and to further understanding of the relationship between globalization and the functioning of multi-level governance processes. The program has several components. Specifically, the Virtual Institute Grants provide up to $90,000/year for two years to defray the costs of creating a Federalism and Federations Research Centre.

Deadline: Nov. 15

Human Resources Development Canada

Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education

This program supports the development of international joint projects among universities, colleges and technical institutions in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The principal aims are to strengthen trilateral cooperation in post-secondary education, training and internship and to increase student mobility. The program seeks to foster student exchange within the context of multilateral curricular development. The program will support collaborative efforts in the form of consortia partnerships consisting of at least two academic institutions from each country. Up to $160,000/year is available for four years.

Deadline: Nov. 19

York Seminar for Advanced Research

The University, through the Gerstein Foundation will provide $7,500 to support a forum in which a small group of distinguished scholars working in closely related fields can consult extensively on a particular theme. The seminar aims to foster, in an appropriate environment, informal yet deep discussion, exploration of the limits of specialized fields and enduring professional and intellectual contacts.

Deadline: Nov. 30

Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC): Japan Foundation (Special Grants Program for Japanese Studies in Canada, Tanaka Fund Program for Japanese Language Studies)

Nov. 15

Bloorview Children's Hospital Foundation: External Research Grants

Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States of America: The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program

Harry Oppenheimer Institute for African Studies (University of Cape Town): Research Fellowship in African Studies

NSERC: Postdoctoral Fellowships

SSHRC: Federalism and Federations Program Virtual Institute Grants; Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (deadline to submit draft letter of intent to ORA; letter of intent due at SSHRC Jan. 15; full application due at SSHRC June 30)

Stanford Humanities Center (Stanford University): External Faculty Fellowships

University of British Columbia: Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships

mid-/late November

Lithoprobe: Call for Applications for University Supporting Geoscience Projects

Nov. 19

Human Resources Development Canada: Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education

Nov. 26

Calgary Institute for the Humanities (University of Calgary): Visiting Research Fellowships

Nov. 30

Associated Medical Services, Incorporated (through the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine): Development Grants; Visiting Professorship

Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC): Scotiabank Awards for Excellence in Internationalization

Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel): Charpak/Vered Exchange Fellowship

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada: Northern Science Award

Lady Davis Fellowship Trust: Postdoctoral Fellowships (Technion); Visiting Professorships (Technion and Hebrew University)

Osler Library (McGill University): Research Fellowship Programme

York University (administered by ORA): York Seminar in Advanced Research

The Office of Research Administration (ORA) would like to remind faculty members of these research opportunities with upcoming deadlines. Deadlines listed are those of the granting agencies. Applications for external sources of funding (i.e., outside York) must be submitted to ORA before forwarding them to the agencies. To assist in meeting these deadlines, it is recommended that applications be submitted to ORA one to two weeks prior to the deadline dates.

For more information, please contact ORA at -55055 in S414 Ross Building (e-mail: research@yorku.ca).