Explore MSSI research projects by award type:
Transdisciplinary Research Themes: our most ambitious program to date. MSSI launched $1.3M projects to address critical environmental and societal needs, leveraging McGill's top researchers to do so. The themes are
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Creating Sustainable Materials
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Adapting Urban Environments
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Sustainable Landscapes
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Sustainability Transitions
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CleanTech for Carbon and Energy Cycles.
Ideas Fund (paused): This fund provides recipients with the resources needed to explore the feasibility of ideas that have the potential to make a significant impact on a sustainability related challenge.
Innovation Fund (paused): This fund serves as a catalyst, accelerating the development of ideas or technology toward widespread societal adoption.
Social Sciences and Humanities Fund (paused): This award provides seed funding to explore bold projects and novel ideas drawn specifically from humanities, arts, and social sciences research with the potential to illuminate or solve sustainability related challenges.
