The main purpose of the AACES is to encourage and financially support educational studies. It may also support publications designed to disseminate the results of educational studies. AACES currently involves a partnership among the faculties of education at the Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge and the Alberta Teachers’ Association.

• Value: Grants in excess of $6, 000 are awarded only rarely because of limited available resources.

• Application deadline:  4:30 pm on October 15 or June 1 annually

• Eligibility: Grants cannot be given for travel unrelated to the proposed research project. 

• Ethics: The application to the Ethics Review Committee must be initiated and a copy of the submission to that committee must be included with the proposal. 

• Submission: Online applications available at Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies