2026-05-13

Webinar: Exploration Stream for high-risk, high-reward research projects

2026 Exploration Competition Webinars

Applicants and research administrators are encouraged to attend the Exploration webinars to learn more about the Exploration stream and the overall application process. Webinar links are found on the Exploration webpage on the date of the webinar.

Notice of intent to apply webinars:

Date: May 21, 2026; Time: 10:00 a.m (eastern); Language: French

Date: May 21, 2026; Time: 1:00 p.m. (eastern); Language: English

Full application stage webinars:

Date:September XX, 2026; Time: 10:00 a.m. (eastern); Language: French

Date: September XX, 2026; Time: 1:00 p.m. (eastern); Language: English

The goal of the Exploration stream is to inspire high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research.

Exploration grants support research that pushes boundaries into exciting new areas. Researchers are encouraged to think “outside of the box” and undertake research that defies current paradigms; brings disciplines together in unexpected ways and from bold, innovative perspectives; and has the potential to be disruptive or deliver game-changing impacts.

Exploration stream grants support projects that:

• bring disciplines together beyond traditional disciplinary or common interdisciplinary approaches;

• propose to explore something new, which might fail; and

• have the potential for significant impact.

Exploration grants support research with a range of impacts—economic, scientific, artistic, cultural, social, technological, environmental or health-related. This list is not exhaustive; other types of impacts are also recognized. Diversity of perspectives is important, and the fund encourages research proposals led from any discipline, from those in the social sciences and humanities, to health, the natural sciences and engineering.

Details of the Explore competition can be found here: https://www.hss.mun.ca/funding/competitions/3893