Funder’s Website
The funder’s website can be found HERE.
Funding Value and Duration
Up to $125,000 per year (including indirect costs) for up to 2 years.
Overview
The goal of the Exploration stream is to inspire high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research.
Exploration grants support research that pushes boundaries into exciting new areas. Researchers are encouraged to think “outside of the box” and undertake research that would defy current paradigms; brings disciplines together in unexpected ways and from bold, innovative perspectives; and has the potential to be disruptive or deliver game-changing impacts.
Exploration stream grants support projects that:
- bring disciplines together beyond traditional disciplinary or common interdisciplinary approaches;
- propose to explore something new, which might fail; and
- have the potential for significant impact.
Exploration grants support research with a range of impacts—economic, scientific, artistic, cultural, social, technological, environmental or health-related. This list is not exhaustive; other types of impacts are also recognized. Diversity of perspectives is important, and the fund encourages research proposals led from any discipline, from those in the social sciences and humanities, to health, the natural sciences and engineering.
Eligibility Criteria
Click here for a list of eligibility requirements.
Additional Resources
The links to the recordings of the Notice of Intent webinar presented on May 22nd for the 2024 Exploration competition can be found below, alongside a link to the slides used during the presentation.
Recordings
English : https://youtu.be/8tR_4UUfaPI
French : https://youtu.be/fVkmo9cXFew
Slides
English : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aG63djRpNPbUpGVR-CKAvdzE0dRJnkJD/view?usp=sharing
French : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J8rcOWjUBM4FOsqg5egiOmffVOU9lCq6/view?usp=sharing
Internal Contacts
Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.
Deadlines
| Faculty Deadline | Consult your Faculty Research Facilitator. |
| Notice of Intent | August 27, 2024 |
| OVPRI Deadline (Approval Form and Application) | |
| Submission to Sponsor |
Submitting Your Application
- Step 1) Submit an internal Carleton Approval Form
Submit an internal Approval Form through our central awards management database CUResearch:
https://ovpri.research.carleton.ca/Romeo.Researcher/Administrator/Default.aspx
For a user’s guide on submitting an Approval Form, click HERE. - Step 2) Submit an external application to the granting agency
Submit an external application to the corresponding grant or award agency. To navigate to the funder’s website, click HERE