NFRF (New Frontiers in Research Fund) Exploration 2025 – Full Application
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: Thursday 16th, October 2025
External Deadline: Tuesday 21st, October 2025
Description
The objective of the Exploration stream is to support high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research. It seeks to inspire projects that bring disciplines together beyond traditional disciplinary or common interdisciplinary approaches by research teams with the capacity to explore something new that might fail, but that has the potential for significant impact.
The Exploration competition has two stages:
- Notice of Intent to Apply (NOI) stage with a deadline of August 19th, 2025 (at 8 p.m. Eastern Time)
- Full Application stage with a deadline of October 21st, 2025 (at 8 p.m. Eastern Time)
Applications at each stage must be submitted by the institution’s research administrators.
Research administrators are free to set their own internal deadlines.
In preparation for the NOI deadline, we encourage all applicants interested in submitting an NOI, as well as the research administrators, to participate in one of the two upcoming webinars. Below are the dates, times and links to the webinars.
NFRFE-2025 – NOI Webinar (English)
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 1:00 PM | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Webinar number: 2338 567 7308
Webinar password: h2xV4S3ui6V (42984738 when dialing from a phone or video system)
Join by phone: +1-438-797-4001 Canada Toll (Montreal); Access code: 233 856 77308
FNFRE-2025 – Webinaire Avis d’intention (French)
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 10:00 AM | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Webinar number: 2342 586 6017
Webinar password: 5FQrjmq3vf2 (53775673 when dialing from a phone or video system)
Join by phone: +1-438-797-4001 Canada Toll (Montreal); Access code: 234 258 66017
The webinars will be recorded and made available, along with the presentation slides, to the research administrators after the session.
All competition information is available on the NFRF website, and the competition can now be accessed via the Convergence Portal.
For more information, please contact: NFRF-FNFR@chairs-chaires.gc.ca.