The Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) of the University of Calgary is committed to enhancing the student experience. Quality Money initiatives and grants are one way that the GSA returns to the student community. Emphasis is placed upon proposals which impact the majority of students, promote multidisciplinary interactions, and integrate sustainable initiatives.

Hosting an online conference, workshop series, or event due to in-person attendance restrictions? These projects may qualify as well. Please email governance.gsa@ucalgary.ca if you have questions.

Please review the following links for event requirements:

• On campus events: UCalgary
• Provincial: Alberta Government

• Quality Money Handbook
• Quality Money Application Form
  • Please note QM cannot be used for honorariums, awards, gifts, or cash prizes. Please refer to the handbook or email governance.gsa@ucalgary.ca
• Quality Money Project Report Form (Within 30 days of your project’s completion, you must submit an annual report to governance.gsa@ucalgary.ca)
• Quality Money Project Extension Form

• GSA Quality Money logo JPG format
• Events Handbook: Learn to how plan your event better!

NOTE: Quality Money intakes are closed. Check back in summer 2021 for updates.  

In March of 2018, Quality Money funded the upgrading of the Jenna Chang Children’s Resource Library in the Family Housing Library. This project provided books, toys, and movies for children of Graduate Students. Take a look at the video below to see the difference Quality Money projects can make for your campus.

Building Bridges Initiative (2nd Year)
GSA Sports Tournaments
Free Coffee Mornings
CEGS Social & Professional Development
Innovation for Health
PHAS Welcome Back BBQ
Transcultural Dialogues in World Cinema Workshop
Cultivation Compassion Training
Fresh & Fast Case Competition 2019
Analytical &Industrial Workshops, and Research Talks
Tapestries of Learning Symposium
Let’s Talk Science
StemCellTalks 8th Annual Symposium
9th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference
2020 Graduate Student Research Symposium
Computational Linguistics Indutry Panel
SEDV Experiental Learning
November 2019 Stair Challenge
thinking ahead
Graduate computer science lounge renovation 
COPSS & UofC NanoGroup Colloquium Bi-weekly seminar series
Coding workshop for engineers
YYC Policy blog (phase 2)
Promoting graduate student wellness and diversity at Foothills campus
Sustainability hands-on workshop series
Free exchange interdisciplinary graduate conference
AnArky Talk Series
Students on sustainability
ANARKY Conference
GSA Awards Website
ChemEscape
57th Annual Geography Department Conference
5th Annual PHAS Symposium
Cumming School of Medicine Symposium
Graduate Student Spanish Classes
School of Architecture, Planning, Landscape Year End Show
Confounding Expectations: Music in the Information Age
Alberta Graduate Mathematics & Statistics Conference (AGMSC)
2020 women in data science satellite conference
Central Student Funding Unit
CEGC Industry panel and technical seminars
Bow River graduate history conference
4th biological sciences graduate symposium
Racialized health journal club and speaker series
Community rehabilitation and disability studies community connector event
Slice of science
Neuro Nexus
Fourth Annual School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Research Conference
Leaders in Medicine professional development series
Institute of Transportation Engineers Student and Industry Mixer
Fostering Self-Leadership in Graduate Nursing Students
Graduate Forum 2020
GAASA Student offices & student lounge refurbishment
Communication retreat
Graduate student teaching squares
Winter warmth, give and take
Graduate Research Conference 2020
Chiniki Lecture in First Nations History

• Fresh and Fast
• Grad Lounge in new GSA space
• Peer Beyond Graduate Research Symposium
• Innovation 4 Health
• LAB-Olympics by Biomedical Engineering Graduate Association
• Community Wellness Program by Graduate Programs in Education Students’ Association
• Supporting the Operation of EPIGREP, a Peer Reviewed Journal
• Amateur Radio Club Growth Project Communication Workshop
• UCalgary Meet-Up for graduate students
• Music for Mental Wellness – Foothills Campus Choir
• TURN (The Urban Research Network) Graduate Writing & Publishing Workshop
• GSA Sustainability Award
• Students on Sustainability
• International Graduate Student Peer Support Program – Nomads
• Academiology
• Building the Nursing Graduate Community During the Holidays by Nursing Graduate Students’ Association
• Graduate Student Groups
• 2017 Active Living Series
• SAGE – Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement
• Mothers Support Group in Varsity Courts
• Documentary & Discussion Series by the Grad College
• Environmental Design Year End Show
• SCPAGS Interdisciplinary Workshop
• Upgrading Jenna Chang Children’s Resource Library
• Bow River Graduate History Conference
• FIFA World Cup 2018
• ITE Student Chapter Transportation Industry Mixer/Project Showcase
• Equality in Science by Biological Graduate Students’ Association
• Global Families Program
• StemCell Talks Symposium
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Methods Day
• GSA Bursary top up
• Graduate Student Support Fund
• Academic Project Support Grant top up

• 2018 Active Living Series
• Building Bridges Initiative
• Critical Geographies Minicon Preconfence
• Graduate Student Research Symposium
• GSA Sustainer Badge
• Aspiring Alliances in Indigenous Relationships and Research (AAIRR)
• Online Financial Literary Training Phase 1
• Rapid
• Analytical Techniques Workshop
• Graduate Leaders Circle Scholarship Drop-in Hours
• Fresh and Fast Case Competition
• Innovation for Health
• Students on Sustainability
• The Career Connection
• Neurohistory Cartoons: Neuroscience Through the Ages
• Mothers Support Group in Varsity Courts
• YYC Policy Blog (Phase 1)
• Workshop Fridays
• A Higher Clause website
• CEGS Social and professional development events
• Networks Research Group Lab Enhancement
• 3rd Annual Biological Sciences Graduate Symposium
• SIAM University of Calgary Seminar Series
• SAGE (Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement) Ucalgary
• 2019 Peer Beyond Graduate Research Symposium
• The World is Your Lab
• Physics & Astronomy (PHAS) Symposium
• StemCellTalks 7th Annual Symposium
• Confounding Expectations: Cultural Meaning in Sound
• Career & Professional Days for Grad Students of Schulich Eng
• SEDV Experiential Learning
• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Methods Day
• Chemistry Alumni Day
• Decolonizing Day: An interdisciplinary symposium
• Geomathon Competition – GeoDays
• 2019 Free-Exchange Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
• Bow River Graduate History Conference 2019
• Institute of Transportation Engineers Student & Industry Mixer
• 2019 Rising Leaders Forum
• International Graduate Student Peer Support Program – Nomads
• Professional Development Grant top up
• GSA Bursary top up
• Cumming School of Medicine Symposium
• 56th Geography Department Conference
• 2019 Women in Data Science Satellite Conference
• Statistical Learning Group
• 3rd annual Obesity Canada – Calgary Research Showcase
• 8th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference
• Neuro Nexus

• Honoraria for ACCUTE Panel Speakers at Congress
• Graduate Student Cost-of-Living Calculator
• Security Researchers and Experts Talks
• AASEE Program Design
• Amateur Radio Club Growth Project
• Fresh and Fast – A Creative Problem Solving Competition
• Graduate Student Mental Health Initiative
• GradFest
• Graduate Student Online Resources
• GradFest4
• GSA Sustainability Awards and Workshop
• Global Families Program
• Letters to Home
• Improving Science Communication Through Acting and Improvisation
• [GSA]2 – The GSA Gay-Straight Alliance
• 19th Annual Graduate Strategic Studies Conference
• Biological Sciences Symposium
• The Grad School Nomads
• Intercultural Communication Training for Graduate Coaches
• Language Creation Conference
• EVDS Year End Grad Show
• Environmental Design Research Conference
• StemCell Talks Symposium
• Council of Foothills DGAs Storage
• 3D Interactive Physical Model of the University of Calgary Campus: Energy Use Visualization
• GSA Records Digitization Project
• The Graduate College Speaker Series
• iGraduate Data Analysist
• Last Defence Lounge Patio Furniture

• NEADS Workshop
• Last Defence Lounge Advisory Group
• Feasby Lounge Interactive Student Activity
• StemCell Talks Symposium
• Jorge Cham Talk
• Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics Digitization Project
• Knowledge Translation Workshop
• Chemistry Alumni Day
• 3rd Annual Alberta Nanotechnology Research Symposium
• DGA Projector Loan Program
• GradFest
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
• 18th Annual Graduate Strategic Studies Conference
• Women’s Leadership Conference
• Crowsnest Hall Composting Program
• Graduate Student Speaker Series
• The U of C Cam-unity Project
• Sociology Graduate Student Research Symposium
• Community Outreach Volunteer Program
• Graduate Student Mental Health Initiative
• Affordable Brain Food
• Global Families Program
• MeetU App

• Graduate Student Groups
• English Grad “Life After Grad School” Pilot Project
• Campus Alberta Student Conference on Health
• Political Science Graduate Student Lounge Renovations
• Build for Bees Calgary
• Faculty of Medicine Symposium
• StemCell Talks
• Test of Workplace Essential Skills for International Graduate Students
• Engineering Education Student’s Society Activities
• 5th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies
• A Room of Our Own: Improving the English Graduate Student Lounge
• Let’s Talk Science

• Faculty of Medicine Symposium
• Campus Alberta Student Conference on Health
• Calgary nanoMixer
• Cricket for Graduate Students
• Free Exchange Graduate Conference
• 16th Annual Graduate Strategic Studies Conference
• Feasby Student Lounge Upgrade