The W21C encourages its diverse network of researchers and innovators to explore funding opportunities within Alberta and Canada. While the W21C can provide expertise, collaborative space and some human resource support, additional funding helps the W21C Initiative meet its ambitious Research and Innovation Agenda.
See below for some funding opportunities:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research of Canada (NSERC) has a large list of funding available for a variety of disciplines http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/ProfDeadlines-ProfDatelimites_eng.asp
NSERC Engage Grants Program– supports the creation of new university-industry partnership to undertake a fully funded short term project that addresses a company- specific problem.
New NSERC Strategic Workshops Program - NSERC has announced a new pilot Strategic Workshops Program. This program offers grants of up to $25,000 to hold workshops which bring together small, highly focused groups to seed collaborations between Canadian academic researchers and the industry and government receptor community in the areas of research targeted by the Strategic Project Grants and Strategic Network Grants Programs. Forty (40) of these grants will be offered each year under the 3-year period of the pilot program
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) also has a virety of funding opporunities available to multiple disciplines http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/ProfDeadlines-ProfDatelimites_eng.asp
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) has funding available for research in quality and patient safety http://www.chsrf.ca/funding_opportunities/index_e.php
The Kidney Foundation of Canada has funding available for research pertaining kidney or urinary tracts http://www.kidney.ca/Page.aspx?pid=362
Community and Hospital Infection Control Associatation (CHICA) has funding available for infection control professional http://www.chica.org/opps_fundICP.html