Our Funds | Canada Foundation for Innovation

The CFI’s funding architecture is designed to deliver on the CFI’s mandate by meeting the current needs of the research community, its partners and stakeholders. The CFI funding architecture covers the full spectrum of infrastructure: projects to attract a leading researcher; team-led innovative projects that have a structuring effect for an institution or a region; and large-scale national projects.

Please note that only eligible institutions — and not individual researchers — may submit a proposal to the CFI. We encourage researchers to contact their institutional research office to learn more about internal application processes.

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Innovation Fund The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) welcomes your comments on the draft Call for proposals for the 2015 Innovation Fund competition until October 29, 2013. Please send your comments to IF@innovation.ca.
John R. Evans Leaders Fund (formerly Leaders Opportunity Fund) This ongoing program accepts proposals from eligible institutions at specific times throughout the year.
Infrastructure Operating Fund Eligible institutions may submit a claim once a year by June 15.
Major Science Initiatives Fund The CFI Board of Directors made the decisions in March 2012.
College-Industry Innovation Fund Eligible institutions may submit proposals for Stream 2- CCI-IE competition 11 until November 1, 2013.
Automotive Partnership Canada Fund Eligible institutions may submit proposals anytime until 2014 or until the funds are exhausted.
Exceptional Opportunities Fund Eligible institutions should contact their CFI Senior Programs Officer to take advantage of an exceptional and time-sensitive opportunity.
Advancing Big Data Science in Genomics Research The CFI is partnering with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Genome Canada to fund a proposal through the Discovery Frontiers Call for Proposals: Advancing Big Data Science in Genomics Research.
Digging Into Data Challenge The CFI, along with NSERC and SSHRC, are joining a team of ten agencies from four countries to support research initiatives that will explore how computationally intensive research methods can be used to ask new questions and gain new insights.

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