New Frontiers in Research Fund — Exploration Stream
- Open Date : February 17, 2025
- Closing date : February 26, 2025
Overview
The NFRF 2024 Exploration competition seeks to support high-risk, high-reward, interdisciplinary research that challenges current paradigms and explores new areas. Eligible activities include innovative projects that bring together diverse disciplines in novel ways to achieve groundbreaking impacts. Researchers from any discipline within social sciences, humanities, health, natural sciences, and engineering are encouraged to apply.
At a glance
Funding available
- Develop strategic partnerships
- Conduct research and development activities
- Conduct research or evaluation activities
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Open Date : February 17, 2025
- Closing date : February 26, 2025
Eligible candidates
- All industries
- Canada
- All legal structures
- All revenue ranges
- All organization sizes
- Indigenous Peoples
- Persons with Disabilities
- Youth (<40)
- Women
Next Steps
Activities funded
The New Frontiers in Research Fund — Exploration Stream supports high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research projects. These activities are encouraged to push boundaries and explore exciting new areas by defying current paradigms and innovating at the intersection of various disciplines.
- High-risk research projects with potential for game-changing impacts.
- Interdisciplinary collaboration bringing together unexpected combinations of disciplines.
- Research initiatives aimed at challenging current research perspectives or paradigms.
- Projects that explore novel approaches to solve existing problems using unfamiliar interdisciplinary perspectives.
Eligibility
Who is eligible?
This competition encourages high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research that pushes boundaries and involves collaboration across diverse fields in social sciences, humanities, health, natural sciences, and engineering.
Eligible expenses
Eligible projects for this grant focus on high-risk, high-reward, and interdisciplinary research initiatives. These projects are encouraged to challenge existing paradigms and integrate diverse disciplines to achieve innovative outcomes.
- Research that challenges current paradigms and pushes boundaries into new areas.
- Projects that involve combining disciplines in unexpected ways to innovate.
- High-risk research proposals with potential for game-changing impacts.
- Interdisciplinary projects involving perspectives from social sciences, humanities, health, and natural sciences and engineering.
Additional information
The New Frontiers in Research Fund 2024 Exploration competition aims to support high-risk, high-reward, interdisciplinary research. This fund encourages proposals that push boundaries and may not conform to current paradigms.
- Diversity of perspectives is encouraged, with no restrictions on research led from any discipline.
- The competition includes specific guidelines for Indigenous research and emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research practice.
- Applications are reviewed by a multidisciplinary panel, which considers a mix of criteria including high risk, high reward, and feasibility.
- Confidentiality and conflict of interest policies are strictly enforced throughout the review process.
- Applications that do not meet guidelines or are incomplete may be rejected by NFRF staff.
- Review panel co-chairs are responsible for ensuring objective and fair assessments and moderating discussions.
- Funding recommendations are made by the review panel, but final decisions are subject to approval by the NFRF steering committee.
- Early career researchers (ECR) are given particular consideration, with the program committing to fund a proportion of ECR-led projects.