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If you have any questions or concerns about award application requirements, eligibility,
or deadlines, please contact the Graduate Awards team at graduate.awards@umanitoba.ca and
we will be happy to assist via email. Your patience is appreciated, and please rest assured that your email will receive a response as soon as possible based on priorities and time-sensitivity.
DOCTORAL
SCHOLARSHIP FOR INDIGENOUS STUDENTS
$10,000 Scholarships · For Full-Time PhD students
Research Field(s): Any
Details: The awards are offered to meritorious Canadian Indigenous doctoral students who demonstrate significant research ability and scholarly potential who have a demonstrated connection to the Indigenous community.
Deadline: July 17, 2025
MASTER’S
AWARD FOR INDIGENOUS STUDENTS
$8,000 Scholarships · For Full-Time Master’s students
Research Field(s): Any
Details: This award is offered to meritorious Canadian Indigenous master’s students who demonstrate significant research ability and scholarly potential who have a demonstrated connection to the Indigenous community.
Deadline: July 17, 2025
PRESIDENT’S
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FOR FIRST NATIONS, INUIT, AND MÉTIS STUDENTS
One scholarship valued at $18,975 · For Full-Time PhD students
Research Field(s): Any
Details: This award will be offered to the highest ranked applicant from the 2025-2026 Doctoral Scholarship for Indigenous Students competition pool. (No application required)
Deadline: July 17, 2024
ARTHUR
V. MAURO SENIOR STUDENT AWARD
(1) Scholarship valued at approximately $1,000 · For full-time Master's & PhD students
Research Field(s): Any
Details: This annual gift supports graduating undergraduates continuing to their first year of graduate studies at the University of Manitoba who have demonstrated their contributions to the university community and to the larger community outside the
university.
Deadline: July 18, 2025
CANADA
GRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS – DOCTORAL 2025: APPLICANT WORKSHOP
Virtual, presentation-style workshop · For full-time PhD students
Research Field(s): Virtual, presentation-style workshop hosted by Dr. Dawn Sutherland Associate Dean, and Allison Aubin, Awards Coordinator for the Faculty of Graduate Studies
Details: For eligible PhD Students who are considering applying for the CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral (CGRS-D) program in the Fall of 2025.
Registration: Register
in advance
Workshop Date & Time: Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM until 11:30 AM
3MP
(3 MINUTE POSTDOCTORAL COMPETITION)
1st place - $500, 2nd place - $250, 3rd place - $100, People’s Choice Certificate · For Postdoctoral Fellows
Research Field(s): This is a university-wide competition where competitors have 1 static slide and 3 minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their postdoctoral research and to highlight their research to a broad and diverse non-specialist
audience.
Details: For Postdoctoral Fellows
Competition Date: September 19, 2025 between 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Location: Fort Garry Campus, Senate Chambers, E3-262 Engineering Building
Deadline: August 18, 2025
2025
EDITION OF THE GENEVA CHALLENGE – ADVANCING DEVELOPMENT GOALS INTERNATIONAL CONTEST
The winning project will be awarded CHF 10,000; the two teams in second place will receive CHF 5,000 each and the two teams in third place, CHF 2,500 each.– For Master’s students (CHF is Swiss Francs)
Research Field(s): Encourages students to provide innovative and pragmatic solutions to some of the world’s complex challenges. Students are invited to develop analysis-based proposals on “The Challenges of Migration”
Details: Master’s students from all academic programs and from anywhere in the world
Deadline: Registration closes on April 30, 2025 at 23:59 CET and
Submissions are due July 16, 2025 at 23:59 CET
SAVVY
NEW CANADIANS FINANCIAL LITERACY SCHOLARSHIP 2025
Two $1,000 scholarships for Fall Term · For all Full-Time Master’s or PhD students
Research Field(s): Be enrolled any year and in any field of study
Details: Full-time Master’s or PhD students
Deadline: September 22, 2025
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY IN KRAKOW, POLAND – EUROPEAN UNION SHORT TERM ACADEMIC EXCHANGE
DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS
Scholarship funding – Doctoral short-term exchange scholarships which covers travel expenses, living costs and, if applicable, conference fees or participation costs for summer and winter schools
Details: Doctoral students to undertake short-term trips lasting from 3 to 5 days (excluding travel days) to participate in educational activities, including courses, workshops, professional internships, study visits, conferences, and summer or winter
schools organized by the Jagiellonian University. For full details, including eligibility criteria and required documents, please contact
Anna.Polonyi@umanitoba.ca.
Deadline: Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis until available funds are exhausted, and all visits must be completed by the end of September 2025
2025
JOHN W. DAVIES MEMORIAL AWARD FROM THE SOCIETY OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS AND MARINE ENGINEERS – ARCTIC SECTION
One Scholarship of $3,000 · For Full-Time Master's & PhD students
Research Field(s): Research assists in providing solutions to problems specifically encountered in
marine cold regions (such as in the Arctic, subarctic, Antarctic, Polar, subpolar, or other cold ocean/sea environments)
Details: Open to full-time Master’s and Ph.D. students at a recognized University in Canada
Questions and Applications go to: 2025scholarship@icetech22.org
Deadline: November 1, 2025, 12:00am MST
NSERC
INDIGENOUS STUDENT AMBASSADORS GRANT (NISA)
Up to $5,000 · For Indigenous undergraduate/graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
Research Field(s): Natural Sciences and Engineering
Details: The grant provides funding to students and postdoctoral researchers to develop and implement outreach activities aimed at promoting Indigenous participation and engagement in the natural sciences and engineering fields.
Deadline: Between two and six months before start of activity
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