News & Events


News & Events will be updated here and announced in LFS today as soon as we received them.
Please fell free to let us know (email us at lfs.research@ubc.ca ) if you find a good news/event that you’d like to share with your colleagues.


  • 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
  • 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