Call for Applications - Research Cooperation in the Canadian Francophonie Program (Visiting Scholars from Ontario)

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Call for Applications - Research Cooperation in the Canadian Francophonie Program

Acfas (the Francophone Association for the Advancement of Sciences) is pleased to open a new call for applications for the Research Cooperation in the Canadian Francophonie Program. This program aims to encourage research collaborations between two French-speaking researchers (or teams) from different provinces or from a province and a territory, by offering mobility grants of up to $5,000 per year. The call is open until September 10th for all host environments, until September 10th for visiting scholars from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Quebec, and until October 10th for visiting scholars from Ontario.

 

  • ·        Who is eligible as a visiting scholar?

 

Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research professionals and professors who are associated with a public university in New Brunswick, Ontario, Nova Scotia or Quebec.

 

  • ·        Who is eligible as a host environment for a visiting scholar?

 

Professors, research professionals, research chairs and research groups who are associated with a public university in a Canadian province or territory (all provinces and territories are eligible), as well as publishers of French-language or bilingual scholarly journals in a territory or province of Canada.

 

Five types of collaborative projects are eligible :

 

1.      Collaboration in a research project between two established researchers (research professionals, professors, postdoctoral fellows, etc.);

2.      Collaboration in a research project between an established researcher and graduate student;

3.      Collaboration in a research project between two research teams based in different provinces or territories;

4.      Internship of a graduate student in a research group, a research chair or a scholarly journal, to carry out various mandates that may go beyond research, for example the administration of the journal, linguistic revision, translation, etc.;

5.      Participation of a graduate student in a summer school in another province or territory.

 

Examples of projects funded in 2021:

 

  • ·        Professors Yves Bergeron of the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Loïc D'Orangeville of the University of New Brunswick combine their expertise to advance knowledge on the relative influence of climate and natural disturbances on the dynamics of isolated stands to the transition between temperate and boreal forests;

 

  • ·        Sandrine Duval, a doctoral student at McGill University, completes an internship with the Canada Research Chair in Minority Studies at the University of Waterloo with Professor Nicole Nolette. This internship focuses on the study of theatre in the Canadian Francophonie;

 

 

Deadlines to apply:

  • ·        September 10th, 2022 (host environments in a province or territory of Canada);
  • ·        September 10th, 2022 (visiting scholars from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Quebec);
  • ·        October 10th, 2022 (visiting scholars from Ontario).

 

The selected projects will be able to start from January 2023.

 

Visiting scholars must identify a host environment before submitting their application and attach to their application a letter of collaboration from this environment. Information on the application file (in French).

 

As a potential host environment, to help you identify a visiting scholar, you can post an internship offer on the program page (see details on the page) or post in the LinkedIn group.

 

To read about the program and apply : https://www.acfas.ca/soutien/cooperationenrecherche

 

Researchers interested in this program can attend the virtual information session (in French) on August 17, 2022 at 11 a.m. (EDT). To register, click on this link.

External Deadline: 
Monday, October 10, 2022
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Doctoral
Masters
Research