Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Identifies and supports eminent women in science throughout the world.

Awards companies which represent the most innovative and promising ideas in cleantech and that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges.

Recognizes and encourages world-class research and artistic creation, prizing contributions of lasting impact for their originality, theoretical significance and ability to push back the frontiers of the known world.

Recognizes Canada’s leaders in sustainability for their contributions over the prior two years.

Honours a living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works. 

Recognizes excellence in Canadian innovation and entrepreneurship, while educating present and future generations of disruptors.

Recognizes distinguished Chinese Canadians who have made outstanding professional achievements.

Recognizes outstanding scientific or engineering research achievements associated with the development of peaceful uses of nuclear science.

Honours excellence in Canadian micro-nano research.

Stimulates fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.

Recognizes outstanding and Internationally recognized scientific achievements.

Empowers young researchers to lead International, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational dialogue with the goal to make global decision making evidence-based and inclusive.

Honours outstanding achievements in the sustainable use and protection of the world’s water resources.

Supports women pursuing research in STEM2D (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing & Design).

Supports a new or ongoing project anywhere in the world, which has capacity to improve lives, or protect the world’s natural and cultural heritage.

The Millennium Technology Prize celebrates the world’s greatest technological innovations that are crucial in solving global challenges.

Rewards exceptional scientists whose work actively contributes to accelerating solutions to keep humanity remain within the 9 planetary boundaries

In addition to recognizing faculty members for their contributions, the award funds bold and potentially game-changing projects that will challenge the status quo, spark change and take action to address persistent systemic barriers in the research ecosystem and academia.

Recognizes current or recent innovations that have a positive impact on the quality of life in Canada.

Recognizes teams of researchers from different disciplines who have combined their expertise to produce achievements of outstanding international significance in the natural sciences and engineering.

Recognizes individuals who has demonstrated sustained excellence and influence in research for a body of work conducted in Canada that has substantially advanced the fields of natural sciences or engineering.

Recognizes a recent outstanding advance in any NSERC-supported field of the natural sciences or engineering.

Honours an individual or team whose research in Canada has led to exceptional benefits for Canadians.

Recognizes remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life.

Recognizes the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership.

Recognizes early-stage academic researchers in the natural sciences and engineering and supports them to enhance their research capacity, so that they can become leaders in their field and inspire others.

Recognizes partnerships in natural sciences and engineering research and development between universities and Canadian industries.

Recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation.

The CFI Innovation Fund supports transformative infrastructure projects that underpin cutting-edge, globally competitive research. The Vice-President, Research & International invites interested teams from all disciplines and Faculties to submit an internal Expression of Interest (iEOI) as part of our supportive internal selection process to decide which proposals will advance to submission to CFI within SFU's funding envelope.

Creates incentive competitions to entice the crowd to provide solutions to the world's problems.

Recognizes important contributions in multiple domains.

Establishes Canada’s biotech industry as a leader in developing the solutions that will help address the global social and economic challenges emerging from population growth and a changing climate.

Honours those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind.

Science magazine recognizes the achievements of researchers at all stages of their careers through a variety of prizes and awards.

The Nature Journals offers a suite of awards, including for early-in-career researchers, that are open to Canadians