2025 Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Innovation Fund (IF) competition – Expression of Interest
Aboriginal Peoples
Arctic and Northern Regions
Community, Regional & Enterprise Development
Creative Arts, Culture and Heritage
Environment, Energy and Natural Resources
Governance and Public Policy
Information and Communication Technology
Oceans, Fisheries and Aquaculture
Social Justice
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with Unit
Memorial Deadline: Monday 22nd, July 2024
External Deadline:
Description
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) officially launched its 2025 Innovation Fund (IF) competition on June 6, 2024. Proposals are due February 4, 2025, with decisions expected in November 2025. With no predetermined distribution of funding, CFI will award up to a total of $425M (i.e., anticipated funding rate of approximately 35%), over the three competition streams:
- Stream 1: Leading edge of exploration and knowledge generation, which is open to ALL disciplines.
- Stream 2: Leading edge of exploration and knowledge generation in social sciences, humanities and arts (SSHA) (*To be eligible, a proposal’s primary field of research must be in SSHA), and,
- Stream 3: Renewal and upgrade of core facilities. To be eligible, all requested infrastructure must be housed in and managed by a “core facility.*
- * A core facility, as defined by CFI, is a facility that provides access to research services, infrastructure, expertise, and training that is generally too expensive, complex, or specialized for researchers to cost-effectively provide and sustain themselves.
For further information, please see CFI’s June 6, 2024 Innovation Fund Call for Proposals, https://www.innovation.ca/sites/default/files/2024-06/CFI-Innovation-Fund-2025-Call-Proposals.pdf.
Memorial’s 2025 CFI IF institutional envelope is $10.8M, with no predetermined distribution of the envelope between CFI’s three competition streams.
The objectives of this competition are to:
• Enable internationally competitive research and technology development through the equitable participation of expert team members,
• Enhance the capacity of institutions to conduct research or technology development program over the useful life of the infrastructure,
• Generate benefits for Canadians.
Expression of Interest (EOI)
In support of CFI’s 2025 IF competition, Memorial University is now seeking EOIs proposing research infrastructure projects that:
- •align with strategic research priorities as outlined in our Research Strategy 2023-2028, https://www.mun.ca/research/media/production/memorial/administrative/research/media- library/ResearchStrategy_2023-28%20FINAL.pdf,
- • are guided by our institutional principles on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), as well as by CFI’s EDI statement, https://www.innovation.ca/about/mandate, in selecting projects and assembling research teams,
• demonstrate appropriate maturity and offer the best potential for transformative impact,
• build on established capacity to accelerate current research and technology development or bolster emerging strategic priority areas,
• empower research teams to maximize use of research infrastructure and foster world- class research.
EOI submission
To apply, all applicants must provide the information as outlined below. The internal submission deadline is 12:00 pm on Monday, July 22, 2024, and all EOIs must be emailed to Research Initiatives and Services (RIS), ris@mun.ca, with the email subject: 2025 CFI IF EOI.
All applicants are expected to check with their individual Academic Units to confirm any internal unit deadlines related to this Call. Please note that as CFI IF applications are for infrastructure, no clearances are required.
If you have any questions about the CFI 2025 IF funding opportunity, please contact RIS, ris@mun.ca.
Downloads
2025 CFI IF EOI Call_June 17 2024