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 20th, July 2026
External Deadline:
Description
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has released its draft 2027 Innovation Fund Call for Proposals, and is anticipated to officially launch the competition on June 3, 2026. CFI will award up to a total of $325M over its three competition streams:
Stream 1: Leading edge of exploration and knowledge generation, which is open to proposals from 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.
Stream 3: Creation, renewal and upgrade of core facilities. To access this stream, all requested infrastructure must be housed in and managed by a core facility. As defined by CFI, a core facility is a shared facility that provides centralized access to state-of-the-art research services, analyses, instruments, technology, expertise, training and education which are generally too expensive, complex or specialized for individual researchers to cost-effectively provide and sustain themselves.
Expression of Interest (EOI)
All applicants who are seeking CFI funds from Memorial’s 2027 Innovation Fund (IF) allocation – including those participating in proposals led by other CFI-eligible institutions – must submit an EOI to this internal Call for Proposals. To be considered, EOIs must provide all requested information by the July 20, 2026 internal submission deadline.
See attached Call for Proposals for more information.
Downloads
CFI IF 2027 - combined call - July2026