The Tri-Agency Research Data Management (RDM) Policy requires that applicants to certain Tri-Agency funding opportunities submit data management plans (DMPs) with their applications. The Tri-Agency includes the three federal research funding agencies — the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The list below identifies funding opportunities that require DMPs. For recurring funding opportunities, the date refers to the competition when the DMP requirement was introduced. Additional funding opportunities may pilot DMPs and be added to this list in the future.
CIHR
- Network Grants in Skin Health, Bone Health and Muscular Dystrophy (October 2022)
- Team Grants: Strengthening the Health Workforce for System Transformation (June 2023)
- Team Grants: Lung Health (July 2023)
- Operating Grant: Clinical Trials Projects (July 2023)
- Team Grants: Improving Health and Administrative Data and Monitoring for Rare Diseases (August 2023)
- Operating Grant: Addressing Infectious and Congenital Syphilis in Canada (September 2023)
- Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (September 2023)
- Team Grants: Embracing Diversity to Achieve Precision and Health Equity (October 2023)
- Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) renewal (November 2023)
- Team Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research (December 2023)
- Team Grant: Biomedical Research for HIV/AIDS and STBBI (April 2024)
- Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging Phase III: Research Teams (August 2024)
- Operating Grant: HCRI—Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts (May 2024)
- Team Grant: Bringing Biology to Cancer Prevention (forthcoming)
- Team Grant: Pan-Canadian Network: Emerging Learning Health System in Perinatal Mental Health
CIHR continues to identify funding opportunities to pilot DMPs, but is no longer posting the funding opportunities on this page. Consult funding opportunities on ResearchNet to learn whether they require DMPs.
NSERC
- Subatomic Physics Discovery Grants - Individual and Project (November 2023)
- NSERC - ECCC Call for Proposals on Plastics Science and Innovation for a Cleaner and More Sustainable Future (May 2025)
- Alliance Society (September 2025)
SSHRC
- Partnership Grants Stage 2 (October 2023)
- Policy Innovation Partnership Grants (September 2025)
Further integration of the DMP requirement into agency programming will be informed by engagement with applicants, peer reviewers and other stakeholders, and will be in step with research data practices in Canada and internationally.
For more information on RDM and DMPs, consult the Frequently Asked Questions for the Tri-Agency RDM Policy or visit the RDM services page of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.