N.B.: Persons who are currently enrolled as students or postdocs at Polytechnique Montréal ARE NOT ELIGIBLE for this scholarship.

The Impact+ Canada research training fellowships target doctoral students as well as postdoctoral researchers who, as the case may be, are studying or working abroad, including Canadians returning to the country who are not affiliated with any Canadian institution.

Initially, applicants will submit their application file to Polytechnique Montréal for institutional preselection. The list of required documents and the online form to be completed can be found in the “Forms and information” (Formulaires et informations) section below.

If the person is preselected by Polytechnique Montréal, the final application file must be submitted by the professor who will supervise the candidate, under the conditions stated below (see the “WHO CAN PREPARE AN APPLICATION FILE?” section).

Candidates may be of any citizenship, including Canadian citizens, permanent residents, protected persons (recognized refugee status/asylum seekers), and foreign nationals who will apply for a study permit (for the doctorate) or a work permit (for the postdoc). Applicants cannot be affiliated with any Canadian institution and must be studying or working abroad. The Canadian citizens targeted by this program are those who left Canada to carry out research or gain work experience and who wish to return to the country to continue their research.

- For the doctoral fellowship: on the effective start date of the fellowship, the prospective candidate must be eligible for a doctoral program at Polytechnique Montréal.
- For the postdoctoral fellowship: on the effective start date of the fellowship, the prospective candidate must be qualified to conduct postdoctoral-level research at Polytechnique Montréal.

Warning to students wishing to submit a scholarship application:
Please note that any application will automatically be deemed ineligible if the professor who is to supervise your project does not meet the conditions set out below. It is your responsibility to confirm, before submitting your file, that your future supervisor meets all of these conditions and that he or she agrees to support your application in the event of preselection.

WHO CAN PREPARE AN APPLICATION FILE?
The author of an application file must be a professor who holds an active grant awarded under an eligible funding opportunity. For the purposes of the Impact+ Canada research training fellowships, active grants considered are those for which a payment has been made or will be made in 2025–2026 or 2026–2027, more precisely between April 1, 2025 and March 31, 2027. Institutions will receive a list of the eligible funding opportunities from each agency. In accordance with the policy adopted by the host institution, the authors of application files must be qualified to supervise doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers.

Eligible funding opportunities

CIHR

• Catalyst Grant
• Network Grant
• Operating Grant
• Project Grant
• Team Grant
• Training Grant

NSERC

• Alliance grants - including peer reviewed special and joint opportunities
• Canada 150 Research Chairs
• Canada Excellence Research Chairs
• Canada First Research Excellence Fund
• Canada Research Chairs
• Collaborative Research and Development grants (including DND/NSERC Research Partnership grants)
• Collaborative Research and Training Experience program
• Discovery Grants program
• Discovery Grants – Subatomic Physics (individual, project and major resources)
• Discovery Grants – Discovery Development Grants
• Discovery Horizons
• Idea to Innovation grants
• Industrial Research Chairs (research project)
• NSERC-CSE Research Communities Grants
• Sustainable Agriculture Research Initiative

SSHRC

• Artificial Intelligence Humanities Sandpit
• Canada-France Calls for Proposals on Artificial Intelligence
• CMHC-SSHRC National Housing Strategy Longitudinal Outcomes Research
• Department of National Defence Research Initiative (DNDRI)
• Gender-Based Violence Research Initiative
• Indigenous Science and the Impacts of Plastic Pollution
• Insight Development Grants
• Insight Grants
• National Science Foundation Global Centres
• New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration
• New Frontiers in Research Fund - Global
• New Frontiers in Research Fund - International
• New Frontiers in Research Fund - Nordforsk-led Joint Initiative
• New Frontiers in Research Fund - Transformation
• Open Research Area
• Partnership Development Grants
• Partnership Grants
• Partnership Grants - Partnered Research Training Initiatives
• Policy Innovation Partnership Grants
• Reconciliation Network in Response to Call to Action 65
• Research on Research Joint Initiative
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Network on Sustainable Agriculture in a Net-Zero Economy
• Sustainable Agriculture Research Initiative
• Trans-Atlantic Platform Democracy, Governance and Trust

All eligibility conditions are described here.