Core Funding Programs.
Ideas Advancement Fund
The Ideas Advancement Fund invests in early-stage research with the potential to advance knowledge and catalyze impact across one or more priority and/or enabling sectors. The program supports researchers to explore early-stage ideas - from fundamental scientific inquiry to the development and validation of early prototypes.
Research Professional Fund
The goal of the Research Professional Fund is to support the hiring of research professionals in progressive leadership roles within New Brunswick research teams while contributing to advancing knowledge and increasing research impact in a provincial priority sector.
Public Health Research Fund.
Advancing Health Equity by Understanding Systemic Barriers in STBBI Prevention and Harm Reduction
The Department of Health (DoH), in collaboration with ResearchNB, is opening a competition (independently peer-reviewed) to provide funds for research to examine systemic, structural, and institutional factors that reinforce stigma and discrimination against people who use substances. The research will analyze how these factors differ across provincial populations, settings, and policy-making partners, and how they shape funding decisions, service availability, and the uptake of harm reduction and STBBI prevention supports.
Vaccination Uptake in New Brunswick
Available to New Brunswick-based researchers through a partnership with the Department of Health and ResearchNB. The Department of Health's (DoH) Public Health Research Fund, which is administered in partnership with ResearchNB, provides grants through open competitions for peer-reviewed research proposals from New Brunswick researchers in the areas of population-level health promotion, prevention, and health protection.
Challenges Program.
Dual-Use Technology Challenge
This Call for Proposals seeks to support research projects that explore technological advancement for dual civilian and defense usage. Projects must align with federal government dual-use technology priorities, which include quantum technologies, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, autonomous systems, and Arctic, space, and oceans research. Successful proposals will showcase collaborative partnerships that strengthen research outcomes and support the long-term success and scalability of the work.
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What is Seed Funding?
ResearchNB Seed Funds are funding programs that focus on building capacity for future federal, private, or public research investments in New Brunswick and catalyze research. Seed Funds do not have matching funding requirements.