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  • LFS Internal Funding Opportunities
    • LFS Internal Research Grant Program (IRGP)
    • LFS Climate and Enviroment Research Fund (CERF)
  • LFS Undergraduate Research Opportunities
    • NSERC/SSHRC/CIHR Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA)
    • Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Awards (WLIURA)
    • Expanded Undergraduate Research Opportunities (EURO)
  • LFS EURO Summer 2025: Call for Applications

    As part of a Vice-President, Research and Innovation (VPRI) initiative to commit $2 million to the expansion of undergraduate research opportunities over the next four years, a proposal for $50,000 from the LFS Associate Dean, Research portfolio has been approved. LFS is pleased to announce that it will use these funds to support ten (10) […] Read More


LFS Research Support offers support for faculty members in all LFS departments and units in applying for research grants and awards. We provide services that support the full life cycle of proposal development:

Grant Development

  • Curate an archive of upcoming funding opportunities
  • Support the initiation and development of research collaborations
  • Identify available resources and critical deadlines (SPARC/IPO workshop registration, SPARC/IPO internal review, etc.) and circulate this information in the LFS Today and on the Research Support website

Grant Preparation and Review

  • Review grants against funding agency criteria and support editing and revision of research proposals and applications
  • Work with individual faculty members and SPARC/IPO officers to incorporate comments from internal reviews from SPARC or IPO
  • Liaise with funding agency project officers on behalf of faculty members when necessary
  • Ethics Facilitation
  • Attend grant preparation workshops and information sessions held for faculty by e.g. SPARC and IPO (CFI)

Grant Submission

  • Provide up-to-date information regarding ORS deadlines and procedures for grant submissions
  • Support the preparation of the RPIF (including the required Faculty signatures) and submission of the required proposal pages to ORS
  • Support the submission of final grants to ORS and funding agency

Other

  • Support for preparation of Award nomination packages
  • Analyzing and providing internal reports of research funding data
  • Support the academic reviews and evaluation of research centres and institutes
  • Administer internal research awards and funding
  • Research orientation and information for new faculty


  • Deadlines
  • Events
  • Funding Opportunities

June 30, 2025
CNS Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism Award (APNM) for Nutrition Translation Proposal Deadline
Frontiers of Knowledge Awards Sponsor deadline (Annual. BBVA Foundation)

July 15. 2025
Canada Gairdner Momentum Award Nomination deadline

August 1, 2025
NSERC Discovery Grants (DG) Program NOI deadline (UBC internal deadline October 25, 2025; Annual)
SSHRC Connection Grants Application deadline (February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1)

August 15, 2025
UZH's global funding scheme application deadline

August 19, 2025
NFRF 2025 Exploration Competition NOI deadline (Full application deadline October 21, 2025)

August 31, 2025
Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences Sponsor deadline (Annual)
Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research Sponsor deadline

More Application Deadlines
  • 2025 UBC Vancouver CLL Fund Competition Info Session
  • Canada–Baltics Horizon Europe Networking Event 
  • NSERC Alliance International Collaboration Pause
  • Horizon Europe and Canada Online Matchmaking Event: Bridging the Atlantic – Health 2025
  • Shaping BC’s Biodiversity Future: Join Genome BC’s Ideas Lab
  • Updates to the 2025/2026 NSERC CREATE Program
  • Meet the Mitacs Advisor for LFS
  • 2025/2026 NSERC CREATE Program – NSERC Webinar Feb 6 & 7
  • NSERC Alliance Webinar on EDI considerations in the Training Plan
  • UBC VPRI/SPARC Horizon Europe Pillar II webinars for faculty/researchers
  • SSHRC is transitioning to a new, narrative-style CV
  • JSPS Fellowships Information Session with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • Undergraduate Research Opportunities at UBC
  • CAPI’s Inaugural Agri-Food Risk Report Phase 1 identifies policy, extreme weather, and trade as top three risks to the agri-food sector 
  • Black Students USRA Workshop
  • Alliance International Catalyst Pause
  • Ask Me Anything sessions – What’s new for the Fall 2024 Project Grant
  • New Zealand – Canada Horizon Europe Cluster 5 Webinar
  • Upcoming webinars for Fall 2024 Project Grant competition applicants
  • Horizon Europe Announcement
  • More News & Events
  • Collaborate with Partners at University of Zurich to Enhance International Impact
  • Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Open Call
  • Summer 2025 CIHR Planning & Dissemination Grant competition
  • Call for Research Proposals on Optimizing Milk Composition and On-Farm Utilization of Processing By-products
  • Scholarship opportunity with PICS
  • French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED): In2novation HealthTech program
  • Shared Research Platforms Competition
  • Call for Internal Selection – SSHRC Destination Horizon Europe Competition
  • NSERC-ECCC Call for Proposals
  • GENOME BC GENESOLVE PROGRAM
  • LFS EURO Summer 2025: Call for Applications
  • SSHRC – Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowships competition now open
  • Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism Award for Nutrition Translation
  • 2026 Transformation Competition
  • IAFNS Summer Research Opportunity Fellowship
  • Notice of Intent for Solutions Scholars research projects is now open for the 2025-2026 Program
  • Lotte & John Hecht Memorial Foundation 2025 Funding Competitions: Cancer Research
  • Applications Open for EduCanada Scholarships for 2025-2026
  • 2025/2026 NSERC CREATE Program – NSERC Webinar Feb 6 & 7
  • Wall Legacy Awards 2025
  • More Funding & Awards Opportunities
    LFS Research Support
    Faculty of Land and Food Systems
    Vancouver Campus
    2357 Main Mall
    Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
    Website researchsupport.landfood.ubc.ca/
    Email lfs.research@ubc.ca
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