Canada Graduate Research Scholarship, Doctoral (CGRS D)
CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC (Canada Research Training Awards Suite)
Who can apply: No more than 36 months of full-time-equivalent doctoral study completed by 31 December of the application year. If you are not a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or protected person you must be registered in your doctoral programme at an eligible Canadian institution by the deadline. Up to 15 per cent of awards go… What is funded: CAD 40,000 per year for 36 months. An Indigenous Scholars Supplement of CAD 5,000 for one year is available to successful Indigenous students through NSERC or SSHRC. Deadline: 19 October 2026, 8:00 pm Eastern Time when applying direct to the agency. Round: October 2026 competition.
Read the full call and apply on the official page: CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC (Canada Research Training Awards Suite), official page.
Who can apply
- No more than 36 months of full-time-equivalent doctoral study completed by 31 December of the application year. If you are not a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or protected person you must be registered in your doctoral programme at an eligible Canadian institution by the deadline. Up to 15 per cent of awards go to international applicants. One application per academic year across the whole awards suite.
Stage dates
If you apply through a Canadian institution, its internal deadline is the one that binds you and is usually much earlier. Contact your faculty of graduate studies first.See the official page
The agency pages print 17 October, which is a Saturday in 2026 and rolls to the Monday.19 October 2026
Dates come from the funder's page for this round. When a round closes, the next round's dates replace these once the funder publishes them.