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SUMMARY:2026 Exploration Competition - Internal Deadline
DESCRIPTION:2026 Exploration Competition\n\nThe New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration stream 2026 call has now been launched. This call supports high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research. Applications from all disciplines are encouraged; projects proposed should push boundaries, defy current paradigms and bring disciplines together in new and unexpected ways with disruptive potential.\n \nExploration stream grants support projects that:\n \n- bring disciplines together beyond traditional disciplinary or common interdisciplinary approaches;\n- propose to explore something new, which might fail; and\n- have the potential for significant impact.\n \nExploration grants support research with a range of impacts—economic, scientific, artistic, cultural, social, technological, environmental or health-related. \n \nThis is a two-stage call with a mandatory Notice of Intent (NOI) followed by a full application. At the full application stage, assessment will include a pass/fail criterion for both interdisciplinarity and equity, diversity and inclusion in research practice.\n \n $250,000 over two years, including $50,000 in indirect costs (25% of the value of the direct costs request)\n\n\nInternal Notice to Intent Deadline: Jul 28, 2026 \n\nUMFOD Details: https://research.ad.umanitoba.ca/mrt/pubapp/umfo_view.php?id=4300\n\nProgram URL: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/exploration/exploration-eng.aspx\nInternal Deadline
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:2026 Exploration Competition
The New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration stream 2026 call has now been launched. This call supports high-risk\, high-reward interdisciplinary research. Applications from all disciplines are encouraged\; projects proposed should push boundaries\, defy current paradigms and bring disciplines together in new and unexpected ways with disruptive potential.
Exploration stream grants support projects that:
- bring disciplines together beyond traditional disciplinary or common interdisciplinary approaches\;
- propose to explore something new\, which might fail\; and
- have the potential for significant impact.
Exploration grants support research with a range of impacts—economic\, scientific\, artistic\, cultural\, social\, technological\, environmental or health-related.
This is a two-stage call with a mandatory Notice of Intent (NOI) followed by a full application. At the full application stage\, assessment will include a pass/fail criterion for both interdisciplinarity and equity\, diversity and inclusion in research practice.
$250\,000 over two years\, including $50\,000 in indirect costs (25% of the value of the direct costs request)
Internal Notice to Intent Deadline: Jul 28\, 2026
UMFOD Details: https://research.ad.umanitoba.ca/mrt/pubapp/umfo_view.php?id=4300
Program URL: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/exploration/exploration-eng.aspx
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DESCRIPTION:Reminder for 2026 Exploration Competition
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