Attracting Funding

UBC offers significant support and resources to help you secure research funding, from assistance in identifying funding opportunities to proposal development and submission support.

 

Finding Funding

Get help with finding funding deadlines, information and requirements.

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Developing Proposals

Our support includes individual advice and review, grant workshops and test-your-concept panels. 

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Budgeting and Indirect Costs

Indirect costs of research are real, ongoing, necessary operating expenses that support research but cannot be wholly attributed to any one research project.

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Submitting Proposals

Get help with obtaining signatures and submitting your proposal.

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Interested in learning about the funding process?

Below are high-level outlines of the research funding processes for grants and contracts.

 

Grants

Apply to grants as part of a funding competition.

  1. Locate funding opportunities
  2. Develop grant application
  3. Complete the RPIF and get Head of Department and/or Dean signatures as appropriate
  4. Submit RPIF and grant application to ORS
    • ORS will provide an institutional signature
  5. Submit to granting agency (paper/electronic)
  6. If proposal is successful, ORS will automatically set up a research account for you

 

 

Contracts

Contracts are often individual relationships with external partners.

  1. Identify partner
  2. Develop a proposal and project budget
  3. Complete the RPIF and get by Head of Department and Dean signatures
  4. Submit proposal and RPIF to the UILO
  5. Consult with the UILO around desired contractual terms for IP and other deliverables
  6. UILO will negotiate the contract with the sponsor on behalf of UBC
    • UILO will provide an institutional signature when the contract is agreed
  7. When the contract is executed, the UILO will automatically set up a research account for you

 

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

  1. Quick Access

    Research Project Information Form Contact us Research community news

  2. Researcher Resources

    Find support Shared Research Platforms Research Excellence Clusters

  3. Portfolio Links

    Units in the Portfolio Research + Innovation (UBCO) CFI/BCKDF applications
UBC Research + Innovation signature UBC Support Programs to Advance Research Capacity

Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation

Walter C. Koerner Library | Suite 580, 1958 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2
Tel 604 822 1995
E-mail research.innovation@ubc.ca

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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