Strategic Plan Funding Opportunities
In alignment with the four core areas, UBC offers faculty, staff, and students a wide range of internal funding opportunities to support collaboration and innovation, and contribute to Shaping UBC’s Next Century. Explore the range of open funding calls listed below, and use the search box or ‘Funding Filters’ button to tailor your search to meet your criteria.
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Date modified: 2024-03-13
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$5,000.00Closing Date:
Early May and November annunallyThe UBC Collaborative Research Mobility Awards (UBC CRMA) are designed to facilitate collaboration on timely research opportunities between UBC researchers in Vancouver and the Okanagan by providing up to $5,000 to:
1. Initiate new, or strengthen existing research collaborations;
2. Enable travel to access unique infrastructure/core facilities at each location or to hold research meetings;
3. Support travel, per diems, and accommodations for UBC researchersFunding cannot be used for the direct costs of research or to support meetings that would have otherwise happened.
Competitions are held two times per year (May and November) with a rapid review and decision process.
Faculty members from all disciplines who are eligible to hold Tri-Agency research grants can apply.
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$5,000.00Closing Date:
2024-04The Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL) and the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) offer a support program for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) projects. The SoTL Seed Program provides those interested in exploring the impact of their pedagogical choices with graduate research specialists, collegial collaborations, and limited funding.
All UBC faculty and staff are invited to apply, but priority is given to full time faculty members. Recipients are expected to disseminate their work and to participate in events to share the outputs of their work with the wider UBC community.
The SoTL Seed Program receives applications twice a year. Typical deadlines are late May and late November. Please visit our website for updates on deadlines, eligibility details and to submit an application.
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$20,000.00Closing Date:
2024-06-03Sustainability Education Fellowships are awarded to UBC Vancouver faculty members who are leading the design of sustainability courses and programs. Grants of up to $20,000 over two years, will support the development of new courses or programs, or significant enhancement of existing ones, and must be centred on transformative learning that incorporates experiential, applied and/or interdisciplinary sustainability education principles. As part of the program, Fellows (up to two members per project) meet monthly to share and explore teaching and learning practices and ideas, share their progress on their curriculum projects, and collaborate to advance
New this year, one wellbeing-focused project will support UBC’s commitment to advancing the Okanagan Charter for Health Promoting Universities and UBC’s Student Strategic Plan commitment of “Wellbeing for People, Places, and our Planet”.
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$100.00 – $5,000.00Closing Date:
2024-07-09UBC Wellbeing Strategic Initiative Funds are granted to departments and units at UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses to support our commitment to the Okanagan Charter to become a health and wellbeing-promoting institution, as outlined in UBC’s Wellbeing Strategic Framework.
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$51,000.00 – $200,000.00Closing Date:
2024-07-11Each year, the Office of the Provost and Vice President Academic invites UBC Vancouver Faculties and Colleges to apply for Teaching and Learning Enhancement funding for initiatives that will improve student learning experiences at the university. The TLEF is financed entirely by a portion of tuition paid by UBC Vancouver students.
Large TLEF Transformation projects are large, multi-year projects that are intended to advance UBC’s strategic goals relating to transformative learning. These projects typically aspire to impact multiple courses or programs, have the potential to involve collaboration across departments or Faculties, and align with one or more strategies or priorities in UBC’s Strategic Plan. Large TLEF Transformation projects can request up to $200,000 over the life of the project and can run up to three years.
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$400,000Closing Date:
2024-07-26The Continuous Learning Advancement Fund (CLAF) supports the creation, renewal and expansion of non-degree learning opportunities at UBC Vancouver to help increase the university’s capacity to serve continuous learners in British Columbia, as set out in UBC’s Strategic Plan.
The CLAF fund accepts proposals for non-credit offerings with preference given to proposals for fully online micro-credential non-credit programs serving continuous learners seeking to change (reskill) or advance (upskill) their careers in high-demand sectors.
The CLAF Fund is administered by UBC Extended Learning Academic Services and the Office of the Provost and Vice President Academic.
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$500.00 – $1,500.00Closing Date:
2024-09-15The Community Engagement Partnership Recognition and Exploration (PRE) Fund awards up to $1,500 to fill small resource gaps and empower community partners to build reciprocal relationships with UBC students, faculty, and staff.
The fund supports applicants looking to develop new or existing community-university relationships and especially welcomes collaborative initiatives that advance:
- Equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Indigenous engagement and reconciliation
- Health innovation and community wellbeing
- Sustainability and climate action
- Teaching, learning, and research excellence
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$10,000.00 – $25,000.00Closing Date:
2024-09-27The Community-University Engagement Support (CUES) Fund awards up to $25,000 to support community-university partnerships that benefit communities across the province and advance collaborative research, teaching, and learning.
Paid directly to community partners, funding removes financial barriers and prioritizes reciprocal, inclusive engagement so all communities — especially those that have been and continue to be underserved, marginalized, or excluded — can benefit.
The fund helps applicants develop new or existing community-university relationships and especially welcomes applications from collaborative projects that advance:
- Equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Indigenous engagement and reconciliation
- Health innovation and community wellbeing
- Sustainability and climate action
- Teaching, learning, and research excellence
The CUES Fund is jointly administered by UBC Community Engagement and the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation.
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$5,000.00 – $50,000.00Closing Date:
2024-11-14Each year, the Office of the Provost and Vice President Academic invites UBC Vancouver Faculties and Colleges to apply for Teaching and Learning Enhancement funding for initiatives that will improve student learning experiences at the university. The TLEF is financed entirely by a portion of tuition paid by UBC Vancouver students.
Small TLEF Innovation projects are grassroots projects that are intended to support experimentation with pedagogical approaches that have strong potential to enhance the experiences of learners. While these projects should also align with UBC’s strategic priorities relating to transformative learning, they are typically smaller in scope and scale than Large TLEF Transformation projects. Small TLEF Innovation projects can request up to $50,000 over the life of the project and can run up to three years.
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$25,000.00Closing Date:
2025-01-18The UBCV OER Fund aims to support affordable and inclusive access to learning materials through the adoption, adaptation, development, and integration of open educational resources (OER) in UBCV credit courses.
OER Affordability Grants provide funding and staff support to UBC faculty who wish to incorporate open educational resources as required materials into their UBCV credit courses for the purpose of reducing student costs for learning materials and assessments. These projects typically have high student impacts including, but not limited to: cost savings, number of students enrolled in courses where the resources are used, and the enhancement of student learning supported by the use of open resources and pedagogies. Proposals can request up to $25,000 over the life of the project which can run over two academic years with the possibility of extending projects for up to six months.
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$2,000.00Closing Date:
2028-05-01The UBCV OER Fund aims to support affordable and inclusive access to learning materials through the adoption, adaptation, development, and integration of open educational resources (OER) in UBCV credit courses.
The OER Rapid Innovation Grants provide funding for a wide range of activities and events that seek to engage the UBC community in increasing awareness and capacity for supporting and sustaining the use of OER at UBCV. OER Rapid Innovation proposals can request up to $2,000 per grant. Applications will be reviewed several times per term. Proposals will be funded continually, with no specific application deadlines and limited only by the allocated funds per year. Grants are not awarded on a competitive basis. The intent is to distribute funds to maximize direct benefits to a wide range of projects and across a diversity of disciplines, units, or UBCV or UBC organizations. The OER Fund Rapid Innovation Grants are available for all members of the UBCV community, including faculty
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$2,000.00 – $7,000.00Closing Date:
2043-11-30The UBC Scholarly Publication Fund is established under the auspices of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation in order to assist UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan faculty members with the costs of scholarly publication.
Subventions are partial subsidies toward the cost of publishing scholarly works, and are commonly requested by publishers and academic presses to support the costs associated with monograph publishing. Support for other publication costs can enhance the work through use of images, copyrighted materials, or special production elements. Researchers often report difficulty securing appropriate funding sources for such costs, particularly early career faculty in the humanities and social sciences.
Applications are adjudicated three times yearly. Application deadlines are 4:00pm (Pacific Time) on
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2043-12-31This fund is administered by the UBC Library with funding support from the Vice-President, Research & Innovation and the Provost and Vice-President Academic, UBC Vancouver through the Academic Excellence Funds. Approximately $75,000 is available annually.
The UBC Open Access Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences Research assists UBC faculty members who wish to publish in Open Access books and journals and who are required to pay associated fees, sometimes known as article processing charges (APCs). This fund supports research directly aligned with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s General Guidelines for Eligibility of Subject Matter for SSHRC and Eligibility of Applications Related to Health.
The Open Access Fund supports the costs of making books or journal articles openly accessible, that is, accessible without subscription or paywalls.