Canada's STEM funding ecosystem for women includes federal programs through NSERC and CIHR, provincial scholarships, and a growing number of industry-backed awards. Programs are available in both English and French and span STEM fields from computing to biomedical research.
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Deadline: March
A $6,000 award enabling Canadian and international senior undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows to…
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A program established in 1996 that funds five regional Chairs across Canada to increase the participation and retention …
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Other
Deadline: Varies by department
Fellowship for recent PhDs (within 24 months) in most fields, including STEM, at participating Canadian universities; ro…
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An NSERC-administered Canadian federal award supporting postdoctoral researchers in the natural sciences and engineering…
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A Canadian federal doctoral scholarship for high-caliber graduate students in STEM, administered by the tri-agency counc…
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CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program is a other research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers.…
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Canada's flagship federal postdoctoral fellowship program, administered jointly by NSERC, CIHR and SSHRC. It supports to…
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Salary support for health researchers in the training phase of their careers in British Columbia, providing $60,000 per …
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A Canadian national charity with 30+ years of experience providing free bilingual STEM education programs and resources …
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A month-long residential STEAM and entrepreneurship program for Canadian high school students, hosted on university camp…
View details →Canadian Light Source
Physics
Deadline: April 1
A competitive program at Canada's national synchrotron in Saskatoon in which an educator guides a team of high school or…
View details →Canadian Mathematical Society
Mathematics
A national network of mathematics camps held at universities and CEGEPs across Canada for students with a demonstrated i…
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Mathematics
Deadline: March
Canada's premier national advanced mathematics competition, written by invitation each March as a three-hour proctored p…
View details →University of Waterloo
Mathematics
The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing at the University of Waterloo runs Canada's largest suite of schoo…
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Data Science
Digital intelligence training from IVADO, the Montreal-based artificial intelligence research and training consortium. O…
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Canada's premier undergraduate STEM entrance awards, granting 100 scholarships each year across 20 Canadian partner univ…
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Deadline: Annual; 2026 contest Feb 18-19, 2026
An annual programming contest for secondary school students run by the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing…
View details →University of Toronto
Biomedical
Deadline: February 25
12-week biomedical and clinical research program open to undergraduates at any Canadian university who are citizens or p…
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Physics
16-week astronomy and astrophysics research program with the Department of Astronomy and Dunlap Institute; open to stude…
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Paid summer research placements for undergraduates in the natural sciences and engineering at Canadian universities, adm…
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Deadline: April
A Canada-wide $25,000 award for a woman in the second or third year of an undergraduate engineering program at a Canadia…
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A national scholarship portfolio for women studying engineering in Canada, run by a foundation established in memory of …
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Three national scholarship streams from the federation of provincial engineering regulators: eight Engineers Canada Lead…
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A consortium of every engineering faculty in Ontario that coordinates outreach programs, mentorship, and a clearinghouse…
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Summer school and research internship programs run by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontar…
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Annual awards from the Society of Chemical Industry Canada Group recognising the student who achieves the highest standi…
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The Chemical Institute of Canada's portfolio of student awards spanning its constituent societies. Undergraduate recogni…
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Physics
A paid four-month summer fellowship at TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator centre in Vancouver, for undergraduates enr…
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Physics
Work-integrated learning placements at TRIUMF for undergraduates considering a research career. Roughly 100 co-operative…
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A suite of scholarships and grants for students in mining, metallurgy, materials and mineral-processing programs at Cana…
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Deadline: February
A $2,000 scholarship encouraging undergraduates to take on summer research in nuclear science and engineering. Applicant…
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Canada's national STEM fair, coordinated by Youth Science Canada and running annually since 1962. Around 390 finalists i…
View details →University of Waterloo
Physics
Deadline: January
A two-week school at the Institute for Quantum Computing combining lectures with hands-on quantum laboratory work, aimed…
View details →University of Toronto (Fields Institute)
Mathematics
Deadline: January
An annual nine-week mathematics research program at the Fields Institute in Toronto that matches carefully selected unde…
View details →The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Biomedical
A 15-week summer research placement at SickKids in Toronto in which students conduct research in a laboratory or clinica…
View details →Data Science
Deadline: December 15
A seven-week machine learning training program for women and gender-diverse people, delivered as three in-person cohorts…
View details →University of Toronto
Physics
Deadline: January 20
Prize scholarships from the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control that fund advanced undergraduates for fou…
View details →Vector Institute
Data Science
Deadline: Varies by term
Paid machine learning research internships at Vector Institute in Toronto, open to students in second year or higher at …
View details →SNOLAB
Physics
Deadline: Varies by term
Paid four- to sixteen-month work terms at SNOLAB, the deep underground astroparticle physics laboratory about 25 km from…
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Other
Paid terms of roughly 16 weeks at the National Research Council of Canada giving students practical career-related exper…
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Engineering
Paid 16-week co-op work terms at the National Research Council of Canada for students in science, engineering and techno…
View details →McGill University
Other
Deadline: February
A 15-week full-time summer research award for McGill students enrolled in a B.Sc. or B.A. & Sc. program, running May thr…
View details →Canadian Space Agency
Aerospace
The Canadian Space Agency's three student entry routes. The CO-OP/Internship Program places students in hands-on work in…
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A $2,500 award administered by Electro Federation Canada for a female university, college or apprenticeship student in C…
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Deadline: December
NSERC's flagship master's-level scholarship providing $17,500 for one year to high-caliber students beginning their grad…
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Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) is a physics research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers.…
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Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence is a computer science research fellowship providing funding to early-caree…
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Quebec's provincial research funder for natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering awards master's, doctoral, and po…
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A paid research internship program that places graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at Canadian universities on ap…
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Provincial scholarships for full-time graduate students researching emerging technologies at participating Alberta post-…
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An embedded research fellowship led by CIHR's Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, placing PhD trainees, po…
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A Canadian initiative addressing the shortage of Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit and Metis) and Black professors in eng…
View details →The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) offers postgraduate scholarships and research grants with equity components. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) also funds interdisciplinary STEM work. Many programs have specific equity, diversity, and inclusion provisions that benefit women applicants.
Yes — organizations like Women Who Code, Ladies Learning Code (Cancode), and the Canadian Women in Technology association run bootcamps and scholarships. Several universities including UBC, Waterloo, and U of T have women-in-CS scholarships.
Federal programs like NSERC scholarships accept applications in both English and French. Some Quebec-specific programs are French-language only. Provincial programs vary — check the language requirements for each program.
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