Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program

How to Apply: 

The Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program (formerly the Faculty Mobility Program) offered by Global Affairs Canada is now accepting applications.  Please note the following deadlines:

    Internal Deadline:  February 11, 2021

    External Deadline:  February 25, 2021

The program provides up to CAD 7,000 to teach or conduct research with one (or more) partner institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the goal of developing new partnerships or building on existing partnerships that will facilitate the ELAP student mobility program.  A pre-existing MOU/exchange agreement is not mandatory.  All funds must be spent by March 31, 2022.

Full-time faculty members are eligible to apply.  Grant recipients must teach or conduct research for 3 to 8 weeks in the following eligible ELAP countries:

  • Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos;
  • Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama;
  • North America: Mexico;
  • South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Applicants must demonstrate how the proposed project will establish or expand on collaborations, including supporting ELAP student mobility.  For more program details and FAQs, please visit the program website at https://www.educanada.ca/scholarships-bourses/can/institutions/elap_faculty-pfla_professeurs.aspx?lang=eng#tab_1530023127_0

Applications are submitted through the Program Coordinator at Lakehead, Jill Sherman.  For more information, please contact Jill at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

External Deadline: 
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research
Direction: 
Outbound