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CANSSI Ontario: Data Access Grants

Published on August 14, 2026

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Sponsor’s Website

Visit the CANSSI Ontario website for more information on the Data Access Grants.

Internal Contact

Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.

Deadlines

DeadlineDate
Faculty deadlineConsult your Faculty Research Facilitator
Internal cuResearch Approval FormOne week prior to application submission
Submission of application to CANSSI OntarioNo deadline

Overview

The program’s primary goal is to support projects focused on developing statistical methodology. A secondary goal is to foster research by mitigating the high cost of access to many datasets.

Value

These grants of up to $5,000 cover costs associated with accessing and working with large data sources, which are necessary to carry out data-intensive research and application.

Eligibility

Projects must clearly align with the program’s primary goal of developing statistical methodology.

Applicants must be trainees or faculty members at a CANSSI Ontario partner university.

Each proposal must involve two faculty members from different academic units (e.g., departments, divisions, faculties or affiliated research institutes), where at least one faculty member is appointed to a statistics or biostatistics unit, or is a statistics/biostatistics scientist based in a mathematics department or a public health school/division.

Submitting Your Application

  1. Submit an internal Approval Form through our central awards management database cuResearch. Consult the user’s manual for guidance.
  2. Submit an external application to CANSSI Ontario by following their submission guidelines.