University of Toronto – Toronto, Canada
The Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards program is a one-time initiative to recruit international or returning Canadian students and postdoctoral researchers to Canada. University of Toronto is currently accepting nominations for this award.
The nominations include Doctorate level ($40,000/year for 3 years) and Post-doctorate level ($70,000/year for 2 years) awards.
Nominees Eligibility Criteria:
Nominees can be of any citizenship (including Canadian), but must not have any current affiliations with a Canadian institution and must be currently studying or working abroad. For the postdoctoral award: Nominees must be qualified to undertake postdoctoral research at the nominating institution in Canada as of the award activation date.
Additional Requirements for Nominees
Doctoral Nominees must:
- Have applied for admission to a funded doctoral program within the School of Graduate Studies (PhD or SJD) to start in September 2026 or January 2027.
Postdoctoral Researcher Nominees must:
- Be eligible to commence a postdoctoral (trainee) engagement prior to March 31, 2027.
Nominators Eligibility Criteria:
Nominees must be nominated by a current University of Toronto faculty member who is the primary grant holder of an eligible grant (refer to Question 17 in link) receiving a payment or planning to receive a payment between April 1, 2025, to March 31, 2027. Nominators must have the ability to supervise a Doctoral student and/or Post-Doctoral researcher until the completion of their degree/engagement.
For the nomination of Doctoral students, the nominator must have received endorsement from the Graduate Chair of the Graduate Unit where the doctoral student nominee will be registered. For the nomination of UofT-based Post-Doctoral researchers, the nominator must have received endorsement from the Budgetary Chair in the unit/department where the postdoctoral fellow nominee will be engaged.
The nominator is not required to have a research grant specifically in one of the priority research areas, however they must be an expert in one of the selected priority research areas.
Nomination Deadline: February 23, 2026
Research Alignment
Eight strategic priority areas have been identified, however the following four are the environmentally-focused fields:
- Clean Technology and Resource Value Chains
- Environment, Climate Resilience and the Arctic
- Food and Water Security
- Manufacturing and Advanced Materials
Nominees’ research areas must be within one of the eight identified priority research areas.
How to Apply
Visit University of Toronto’s website to see the full program details and to find out how to apply:
About University of Toronto
Founded in 1827, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) is Canada’s top university. With a total enrollment of over 100,000 undergraduate and graduate students across three campuses in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), it is the largest post-secondary institution in Canada. As one of the world’s top research-intensive universities and the alma mater of nine Nobel Prize laureates, it attracts some of the top students and faculty in the world.