University of Toronto Accelerate Grant Program 2025 (Over $1.5 million in funding) – YOA

Deadline: August 4, 2025

Applications are open for the University of Toronto Accelerate Grant Program 2025. This program helps to drive the Acceleration Consortium (AC) strategy to accelerating scientific discovery, not solely by increasing the scope and depth of analysis but additionally by means of the interpretation of groundbreaking discoveries into actual-world functions.

These grants present funding for analysis throughout bodily, life, computational, and social science domains related to, however not restricted to the next:

• the event of self-driving labs (SDLs) or the event of the substitute intelligence (AI) and automation instruments required to construct SDLs,
• the use of SDLs for supplies or molecule discovery,
• coverage or different frameworks to assist the accountable use and uptake of SDLs, or
• the implications (financial, social, and so on.) of AI and automation for accelerated discovery and the neighborhood-based mostly use of these applied sciences.

End-uses of the analysis ought to assist advances in sustainability or human well being. Applications from all disciplines are inspired. Indigenous science and expertise and neighborhood-engaged analysis are focus areas for the AC.

Grant

Seed Funding

• Accelerate Seed Funding: most $125,000 (1 yr)
• Joint CRAFT-AC Seed Funding: most $100,000 (1 yr)

Grant functions submitted to the CRAFT-AC stream can even be thought of for the AC seed grant stream competitors.  

• Joint IVADO-AC Seed Funding: most: $250,000 (2 years)
  • Grant functions submitted to the IVADO-AC stream can even be thought of for the AC seed grant stream competitors. However, the AC seed grant stream will solely fund yr one of the application.

Moonshot Funding

• Accelerate Moonshot Funding: most $500,000 (2 years)
• Joint Institut Cortois-IVADO-AC Moonshot Funding: most $400,000 (2 years)
  • Grant functions submitted to the Institut Cortois-IVADO-AC stream can even be thought of for the AC moonshot grant stream competitors.

Translation Funding

• Accelerate Translation Funding: as much as $500,000 (2 years) with the potential addition of $300,000 for gear.

Eligibility

AC Seed, Moonshot, and Translation Grants

• Lead principal investigators (PIs) should meet the University of Toronto’s eligibility tips and be eligible to carry tri-company funding.
• AC Staff Scientists are eligible co-candidates.‍

CRAFT-AC Seed grants

• The challenge should align with the CRAFT mission to develop novel microfluidics-based mostly applied sciences together with diagnostics, organ-on-a-chip and biofabrication applied sciences.
• Proposed initiatives are required to make the most of NRC in-kind sources, together with Research Officers and/or Technical Officer.

IVADO-AC Seed Funding

• Projects should be led by at the very least two co-investigators, together with a professor from the University of Toronto and one professor from IVADO’s 5 associate universities (UdeM, Polytechnique, HEC, ULaval and McGill).  

Institut Courtois-IVADO-AC Moonshot Funding   

• Projects should be led by at the very least three co-investigators, together with a daily member of Institut Courtois, and a professor from the University of Toronto, and one professor from IVADO’s 5 associate universities (UdeM, Polytechnique, HEC, ULaval and McGill).

Application

Submit 2-page notice of intent (NOI) that might be assessed for challenge eligibility and high quality, and to establish grant functions that may be merged.  

For extra data, go to Accelerate Grant Program.