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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 Climate and Environment Research Fund (CERF)

      The Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS) announces the launch of the second intake of the Climate and Environment Research Fund (CERF). Previous work completed by the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food (AF) showed the potential for broad groups of on-farm beneficial management practices (BMPs) to help farmers and ranchers achieve reductions in […] 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

October 1, 2025
SSHRC Insight Grants Sponsor Application deadline (UBC internal deadline September 24, 2025)
NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowships UBC Internal Deadline (Sponsor deadline: December 15, 2025)

October 5, 2025
Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes Application deadline (Annual)

October 8, 2025
Ministry of Health and UBC Health Seed Grant Program NOI deadline (Full application deadline Early January 2026)

October 9, 2025
KU Leuven Global Seed Fund Application deadline (UBC internal deadline: at least a week before)

October 15, 2025
UBC Scholarly Publication Fund Application Deadline (October 15, February 15, and June 15)
Strategic Equity & Anti-Racism (StEAR) Enhancement Fund Application deadline

October 17, 2025
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowships Program Application deadline (Annual)
UBC Health awards and scholarships submission deadline

October 20, 2025
NSERC Discovery Horizons (pilot) Full application deadline (LOI deadline: June 16, 2025)

October 20, 2025
NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grants (RTI) program Application deadline (Annual)

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

October 23, 2025
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants Application deadline (on a rolling basis through July 2026)
CIHR Catalyst Grant Application deadline

October 24, 2025
NSERC Discovery Grants (DG) Program UBC internal deadline (NOI deadline August 1, 2025; Annual)

October 30, 2025
SSHRC & UKRI Artificial intelligence humanities sandpit EOI deadline

More Application Deadlines
  • CIHR Team Grant Webinar: Health Effects of Ultra-Processed Foods
  • Event funding at PICS universities
  • NSERC Webinar – Alliance grants evaluation and competitive selection
  • New data management planning tools available for preparing grant applications
  • CIFAR Call for Future of Food Workshops – Launching September 2025
  • 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
  • More News & Events
  • 2026 France Canada Research Fund (FCRF) New Research Collaboration Program
  • Ministry of Health Research Seed Grant – Call for Proposals
  • Event funding at PICS universities
  • Mitacs – Horizon Europe International Mobility Award
  • Apply for the Community-University Engagement Support Fund
  • LFS Climate and Environment Research Fund (CERF)
  • NSERC Belmont Forum – Towards the ocean we want: biodiversity and ecosystem sustainability for nature and human well-being (CRA Ocean 2)
  • Genome BC Data Access, Integration, and Analysis (DAIA) 2
  • Call for proposal: UBC AI and Health Network Fellows Program
  • 2025 UBC Vancouver (Campus as a living lab) CLL Fund Competition – Website Now Live & Info Session Registration
  • New data management planning tools available for preparing grant applications
  • CIFAR Call for Future of Food Workshops – Launching September 2025
  • 2025 NFRF Exploration Competition – Calls for NOI
  • WFIM Corporate Partner 2025 Sustainability Scholarship
  • Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants
  • Vancouver Foundation 2025 Participatory Action Research (PAR) Grants
  • Reminder of NSERC Discovery Grant NOI Deadline
  • Collaborate with Partners at University of Zurich to Enhance International Impact
  • Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Open Call
  • Summer 2025 CIHR Planning & Dissemination Grant competition
  • 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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