Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA)

Starting this year, Canada’s three federal research funding agencies – CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC – are harmonizing their postdoctoral fellowship programs under a new initiative: the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS). The harmonized postdoctoral funding will now be known as the Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) and this streamlined funding program will officially launch in summer 2025.

For preliminary information about the harmonized CPRA, please refer to Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA). 
Full application instructions and updated links from the Tri-Agency are expected to become available after July 8, 2025.

To be eligible, you must:

• Hold (or expect to hold) a doctorate or health professional degree before the award start date.
• Not hold or be on leave from a tenure-track or tenured faculty position.
• Have completed all degree requirements no more than three years before September 1, 2025.
  • Extensions up to 36 additional months may be granted for career interruptions due to caregiving, illness, conflict, socioeconomic barriers, clinical training, or relevant non-academic work.).
• If you are an international applicant, you must either:
• Be enrolled in or have completed your doctoral/health professional degree at a Canadian institution, or
• Be currently conducting postdoctoral research at a Canadian institution. We anticipate that an active postdoc appointment at UCalgary by the agency application deadline date will satisfy this.

To participate in the internal review process, please submit the following by the internal deadline to fellowships@ucalgary.ca:

• PDF preview of the complete application, or the complete application itself (if you'd like to request a review before the agency portals open)
• Completed RFAA Form, signed by:
  • Applicant (Postdoc)
  • Supervisor
  • Department Head (if applicable)
  • Dean/Associate Dean (Research)