NSERC CREATE VISION: Visual Effects and Animation Innovation and Simulation
Quick Facts
- Agency
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Funding
- $1.65M over six years
- Deadline
- May 1, 2026 (81 days remaining)
- Status
- Active
- Eligibility
- Canadian universities for graduate training in visual effects and animation
About This Grant
NSERC CREATE VISION: Visual Effects and Animation Innovation and Simulation is sponsored by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Training program in visual effects, animation, innovation, and simulation, relevant to digital design education. This program should be reviewed carefully against your organization's mission, staffing capacity, timeline, and compliance readiness before you commit resources to a full application. Strong submissions usually translate sponsor priorities into concrete objectives, clear implementation milestones, and measurable public benefit.
For planning purposes, treat May 1, 2026 as your working submission target unless the sponsor publishes an updated notice. A competitive project plan should include a documented need statement, implementation approach, evaluation framework, risk controls, and a realistic budget narrative. Even when a grant allows broad program design, reviewers still expect credible evidence that the proposed work can be executed within the grant period and with appropriate accountability.
Current published award information indicates $1.65M over six years Organizations should verify the final funding range, matching requirements, and allowability rules directly in the official opportunity materials before preparing a budget. Finance and program teams should align early so direct costs, indirect costs, staffing assumptions, procurement timelines, and reporting obligations all remain consistent throughout drafting and post-award administration.
Eligibility guidance for this opportunity is: Canadian universities for graduate training in visual effects and animation If your organization has partnerships, subrecipients, or collaborators, define responsibilities and compliance ownership before submission. Reviewers often look for implementation credibility, so letters of commitment, prior performance evidence, and a clear governance model can materially strengthen the application narrative and reduce concerns about delivery risk.
A practical approach is to begin with a focused readiness review, then build a workback schedule from the sponsor deadline. Confirm required attachments, registration dependencies, and internal approval checkpoints early. This reduces last-minute issues and improves submission quality. For the most accurate requirements, always rely on the official notice and primary source links associated with NSERC CREATE VISION: Visual Effects and Animation Innovation and Simulation.
Official Opportunity Details
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Discovery Grants (individual) program | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grants (individual) program Overview Overview Duration Up to five years Application deadline August 1, 2025 (notification of intent to apply) November 3, 2025 (full application) Important: Your application must be received at your institution’s research grants office by its internal deadline date; contact your research grants office for that deadline.
Application procedures See below How to apply Notification of intent to apply (submitted through the Research Portal ) Full application (submitted through the Research Portal ) For more information Email resgrant@nserc-crsng. gc.
ca Inter-agency Interdisciplinary Research Equity, diversity and inclusion General eligibility principles Review procedures and selection criteria Objective The Discovery Grants (DG) program assists in promoting and maintaining a diversified base of high-quality research capability in the natural sciences and engineering in Canadian universities fostering research excellence providing a stimulating environment for research training Description The DG program supports ongoing programs of research with long-term goals rather than a single short-term project or collection of projects.
These grants recognize the creativity and innovation that are at the heart of all research advances. DGs are typically five years in duration and are considered “grants in aid” of research, as they provide long-term operating funds and can facilitate access to funding from other programs but are not meant to support the full costs of a research program.
DG recipients are not restricted to the specific activities described in their applications and may pursue new research interests, provided they are within NSERC’s mandate and adhere to the principles and directives governing the appropriate use of funds as outlined in the Tri-agency Guide on Financial Administration .
This provides researchers with the flexibility to pursue promising research avenues as they emerge and the opportunity to address higher-risk (higher reward) topics. Researchers can use their grants to participate in collaborative efforts. Inter-agency Interdisciplinary Research Researchers whose program of research is interdisciplinary in nature are invited to apply to Discovery Horizons (DH) as a mechanism to access Discovery funding.
DH grants support investigator-initiated individual and team projects that broadly integrate or transcend disciplines to advance knowledge in the natural sciences and engineering (NSE). This contrasts with DG, which funds individual programs of research within the NSE. Full applications submitted to NSERC’s DH program will be reviewed by a Tri-agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee .
A Discovery Horizons grant is not meant to supplement existing DG funding.
In the context of Discovery Horizons, the term “interdisciplinary” should be understood to fully encompass all research that connects, crosses, or falls in between the traditional disciplines of the three granting agencies (natural sciences and engineering, social sciences and humanities, and health and wellness), including transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, convergence research and other approaches at the interface.
Research that connects, crosses or falls within the disciplines of NSE continues to be eligible for DG funding. Equity, diversity and inclusion NSERC is acting on the evidence that achieving a more equitable, diverse and inclusive Canadian research enterprise is essential to creating the excellent, innovative and impactful research necessary to advance knowledge and understanding, and to respond to local, national and global challenges.
This principle informs the commitments described in the Tri-agency Statement on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Applicants are expected to increase the inclusion and advancement of underrepresented groups in the natural sciences and engineering, as one means to enhance excellence in research and training.
For more information, refer to the DG application instructions and the NSERC guide on integrating equity, diversity and inclusion considerations in research . Research security To ensure that the Canadian research ecosystem is as open as possible and as safeguarded as necessary, the Government of Canada has introduced the Policy on Sensitive Technology Research and Affiliations of Concern (STRAC Policy).
For more information about research security at the granting agencies, refer to the Tri-agency guidance on research security . Policy on Sensitive Technology Research and Affiliations of Concern The STRAC Policy addresses risks related to Sensitive Technology Research Areas performed with research organizations and institutions that pose the highest risk to Canada’s national security.
The STRAC Policy applies to this funding opportunity as of May 1, 2024. To comply with this policy, applicants must identify whether the grant application aims to advance a Sensitive Technology Research Area.
If so, the submission of attestation forms will be required from researchers with named roles (for this funding opportunity, these are the applicants) to certify that they are not currently affiliated with, nor are in receipt of funding or in-kind support from, a Named Research Organization (NRO) .
Researchers should review the list of Sensitive Technology Research Areas and the list of Named Research Organizations carefully to understand which versions of the lists apply to this competition. The Tri-agency guidance on the STRAC Policy provides more information on new applicable procedures and requirements, including responsibilities of researchers and institutions .
General eligibility principles DGs are awarded to individual researchers, normally for five years. Researchers can apply for and hold only one DG at a time. Researchers who hold a DG cannot reapply for another DG until the last year of their current award.
Individuals cannot hold both a Discovery Grant and a Discovery Horizons grant. This rule has been effective from the 2024 competition year onwards. Applicants to the DG program must meet NSERC’s Eligibility requirements for faculty to apply for or hold grant funds (consult Sections 1.
1, 2. 1, 3 and 4 for university faculty) to ensure that you can participate in this grant program as an applicant. If you are an adjunct professor, see the Note on Adjunct Professors section.
Subject matter eligibility and funding from other sources Applicants to the DG program must present a program of research that is eligible under NSERC’s mandate, which is to promote and assist research in the natural sciences and engineering, other than health. The objectives of the research program must be to advance knowledge in the natural sciences or engineering.
The application will be rejected if NSERC determines, at any time during the review cycle, that the subject matter is outside of its mandate.
Refer to Selecting the Appropriate Federal Granting Agency , the Addendum to the guidelines for the eligibility of applications related to health , the Peer Review Manual , and the NSERC Discovery Grants Process for Decisions on Mandate Eligibility for further information on the eligibility of subject matter.
Applicants to the DG program must present a program of research that is conceptually distinct from research supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) or the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
NSERC encourages researchers to obtain funds from other sources to support the full costs of the research program presented in their DG application, as long as the funding source is not CIHR or SSHRC, and as long as the funds cover different expenses from those proposed in the DG application. Refer to the Peer Review Manual and the Instructions for completing an application for further information.
Applicants to the DG program are categorized as either early career researchers or established researchers. Refer to the Discovery Grants – applicant categories for more information. Applicant categorization is the responsibility of NSERC staff and is based on the information provided by the applicant in the Canadian Common CV (CCV) and application.
Application procedures To apply for a DG, applicants must first submit a notification of intent (NOI) to apply by the NOI deadline date . The NOI is a mandatory step in the application process. It allows NSERC to start the review process (e.
g. , preliminary assignment to an evaluation group (EG), selection of appropriate external reviewers and verification of the eligibility of the subject matter). Applicants must then complete and submit the application by the full application deadline date.
Applicants are required to complete and submit the NSERC version of the Canadian Common CV (CCV) at both the NOI and full application stages for this program. The CCV can be updated following the NOI submission, but updates must be made prior to the submission of the full application. Review procedures and selection criteria Applications are submitted to the DG program and not to a particular evaluation group (EG).
Applications are reviewed by EGs. Each EG comprises Canadian and international peers with diversified expertise in the areas of research covered by the EG. There may also be input on applications from external reviewers.
NSERC assigns applications to EGs on the basis of the research topics, the objectives of the proposed research program and input from both applicants and EGs. At the NOI stage, applicants are asked to suggest which EG they believe to be the most appropriate to review their application. The final decision of EG assignment is made by NSERC.
For interdisciplinary research within the natural sciences and engineering, appropriate review of the application will be ensured by identifying appropriate EG members and external reviewers to review the application. Please see the Guidelines for the Preparation and Review of Applications in Interdisciplinary Research for more information. Applications are rated according to the following selection criteria.
The onus is on applicants to address these explicitly in their application. As part of an ongoing commitment to ensure that a wide range of contributions are considered and valued in the merit review, the new Guidelines on the assessment of contributions to research, training and mentoring will support the evaluation of NSERC applications.
Scientific or engineering excellence of the researcher Knowledge, expertise and experience Quality of contributions to, and impact on, the proposed and other areas of research in the natural sciences and engineering Importance of contributions to, and use by, other researchers and end-users Originality and innovation: extent to which the proposal suggests and explores novel or potentially transformative concepts and lines of inquiry Significance and expected contributions to research; potential for policy and/or technology-related impact Clarity and scope of objectives (research program with long-term goals rather than a single short-term project or collection of projects) Clarity and appropriateness of methodology Extent to which the scope of the proposal addresses all relevant issues, including the need for varied expertise within or across disciplines Consideration of equity, diversity and inclusion in the research process where relevant Consideration of interdisciplinary methods or practices in research, if applicable Appropriateness of, and justification for, the budget Demonstration that the DG proposal is conceptually distinct from research support held or applied for through CIHR and/or SSHRC Contribution to the training of highly qualified personnel (HQP) Quality and impact of past training of HQP (e.
g.
, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students, technicians), including training environment provided for HQP HQP awards and research contributions outcomes and skills gained by HQP Quality, suitability and clarity of the planned training of HQP, including overall training philosophy research training plan for individual HQP Consideration of equity, diversity and inclusion in past and planned training of HQP The overall merit assessment of each application is based on the combination of ratings by the EG for each selection criterion.
The final rating assigned and the applicant category will determine the grant level. Funding decisions Refer to the Discovery Grants Information Centre for more information.
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Eligibility Requirements
- Canadian universities for graduate training in visual effects and animation
Frequently Asked Questions
Who can apply for NSERC CREATE VISION: Visual Effects and Animation Innovation and Simulation?
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Canadian universities for graduate training in visual effects and animation Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
What is the typical funding level for NSERC CREATE VISION: Visual Effects and Animation Innovation and Simulation?
Current published award information indicates $1.65M over six years Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
When is the deadline for NSERC CREATE VISION: Visual Effects and Animation Innovation and Simulation?
The current target date is May 1, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, attachments, and final submission checks.
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Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program (CREATE) is sponsored by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Supports training programs in areas including quantum computing, AI, and related technologies through interdisciplinary graduate training initiatives that align with AI curriculum development. Official opportunity description and requirements excerpt: Collaborative Research and Training Experience program | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Collaborative Research and Training Experience program Overview Overview Duration Six years Value $1.65M over six years Application deadline Letter of intent : May 1, 2026, before 8:00 p.m. (ET) Application : September 22, 2026, before 8:00 p.m. (ET) How to apply To create or access an application, log in to the NSERC online system Instructions for completing and submitting a letter of intent (LOI) Instructions for completing and submitting a letter of intent (LOI) to apply for a Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) grant For more information Contact CREATE@nserc-crsng.gc.ca Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) Sensitive Technology Research and Affiliations of Concern Industrial collaborator participation Progress reports and performance evaluations Specific rules for the use of grant funds Review procedures and selection criteria Important information For the current competition, NSERC will fund one CREATE initiative through the Government of Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS). The initiative will help advance the DIS’s workforce development priorities by supporting training opportunities that result in skilled and technologically-proficient research trainees in areas including, but not limited to, quantum communications, quantum sensing, quantum materials, quantum computing and quantum software. Investments in high-potential dual-use domains such as quantum will advance national defence priorities, bolster Canada’s industrial capacity and create new business and workforce opportunities, thereby maximizing research impacts and delivering economic benefits for all Canadians. Applications will be evaluated through the normal CREATE peer review process, but applications should include “Quantum” in the title. Letters of Intent (LOIs) submitted to the Quantum call are not included in each university’s allotment of LOIs advancing to the application stage. Each university can submit up to one LOI for the Quantum call. Objectives The Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program supports the training and mentoring of highly qualified students and postdoctoral researchers from Canada and abroad through the development of innovative training programs that: encourage collaborative and integrative approaches between institutions of various sizes to address significant scientific challenges facilitate the transition of new researchers from trainees to productive employees in the Canadian workforce These innovative programs must foster the development of professional skills among students and postdoctoral researchers that complement their technical skills, thereby improving their job readiness for careers in industry, government, non-governmental organizations, and/or academia. In addition, these programs should encourage: student mobility, nationally or internationally, between individual universities and between universities and other sectors interdisciplinary research within the natural sciences and Application snapshot: target deadline May 1, 2026; published funding information $1,650,000 over 6 years; eligibility guidance Canadian universities and their faculty leading graduate training programs Use the official notice and source links for final requirements, attachment checklists, allowable costs, and submission instructions before applying.
Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program
Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program is sponsored by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Funds collaborative research and training experiences, potentially including design education in interdisciplinary contexts. This program should be reviewed carefully against your organization's mission, staffing capacity, timeline, and compliance readiness before you commit resources to a full application. Strong submissions usually translate sponsor priorities into concrete objectives, clear implementation milestones, and measurable public benefit. For planning purposes, treat May 1, 2026 as your working submission target unless the sponsor publishes an updated notice. A competitive project plan should include a documented need statement, implementation approach, evaluation framework, risk controls, and a realistic budget narrative. Even when a grant allows broad program design, reviewers still expect credible evidence that the proposed work can be executed within the grant period and with appropriate accountability. Current published award information indicates $1.65M over six years Organizations should verify the final funding range, matching requirements, and allowability rules directly in the official opportunity materials before preparing a budget. Finance and program teams should align early so direct costs, indirect costs, staffing assumptions, procurement timelines, and reporting obligations all remain consistent throughout drafting and post-award administration. Eligibility guidance for this opportunity is: Canadian postsecondary researchers and their organizations If your organization has partnerships, subrecipients, or collaborators, define responsibilities and compliance ownership before submission. Reviewers often look for implementation credibility, so letters of commitment, prior performance evidence, and a clear governance model can materially strengthen the application narrative and reduce concerns about delivery risk. A practical approach is to begin with a focused readiness review, then build a workback schedule from the sponsor deadline. Confirm required attachments, registration dependencies, and internal approval checkpoints early. This reduces last-minute issues and improves submission quality. For the most accurate requirements, always rely on the official notice and primary source links associated with Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program.
NSERC CREATE in Product Design for Human Comfort
NSERC CREATE in Product Design for Human Comfort is sponsored by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Funds collaborative research and training programs in product design focused on human comfort, supporting graduate students and postdocs. This program should be reviewed carefully against your organization's mission, staffing capacity, timeline, and compliance readiness before you commit resources to a full application. Strong submissions usually translate sponsor priorities into concrete objectives, clear implementation milestones, and measurable public benefit. For planning purposes, treat May 1, 2026 as your working submission target unless the sponsor publishes an updated notice. A competitive project plan should include a documented need statement, implementation approach, evaluation framework, risk controls, and a realistic budget narrative. Even when a grant allows broad program design, reviewers still expect credible evidence that the proposed work can be executed within the grant period and with appropriate accountability. Current published award information indicates $1.65M over six years Organizations should verify the final funding range, matching requirements, and allowability rules directly in the official opportunity materials before preparing a budget. Finance and program teams should align early so direct costs, indirect costs, staffing assumptions, procurement timelines, and reporting obligations all remain consistent throughout drafting and post-award administration. Eligibility guidance for this opportunity is: Canadian universities leading consortia for graduate training in product design If your organization has partnerships, subrecipients, or collaborators, define responsibilities and compliance ownership before submission. Reviewers often look for implementation credibility, so letters of commitment, prior performance evidence, and a clear governance model can materially strengthen the application narrative and reduce concerns about delivery risk. A practical approach is to begin with a focused readiness review, then build a workback schedule from the sponsor deadline. Confirm required attachments, registration dependencies, and internal approval checkpoints early. This reduces last-minute issues and improves submission quality. For the most accurate requirements, always rely on the official notice and primary source links associated with NSERC CREATE in Product Design for Human Comfort.
