SFU Climate Innovation Seed Funds aim to catalyze community-centred climate action and innovation research-for-impact. Building on SFU’s research priority – community-centred climate innovation – the seed funds are part of an integrated SFU Climate Innovation platform that is elevating interdisciplinary research by further enabling faculty and graduate students to co-create high-impact research with community partners. Together with a suite of services and supports, the seed funds are building a collaborative funding runway to advance transformative research and access higher-order funding with the goal of accelerating low carbon, resilient, and sustainable communities across Canada, and beyond.

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SFU Climate Innovation’s Mitacs Umbrella program is streamlining access to funding, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and accelerating climate innovation research with real-world impact.

Simplifying Mitacs Accelerate funding applications under a unified umbrella, the 2025/2026 SFU Climate Innovation Mitacs Umbrella research award supports low-barrier funding where interns will work collaboratively with their academic supervisor and partner organization on climate-related research advancing low carbon resilience and integrated energy systems for sustainable communities in Canada and beyond.

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