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Call for applications: Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program (EduCanada)

Published: 11 October 2024

FMPBP - Call for applications

Value: $7,000 CDN

Duration: 3-8 weeks

Activities: Teach and/or conduct research in eligible countries

INTERNAL DEADLINE TO APPLY: MONDAY NOVEMBER 11 @ NOON

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What is the Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program?

The Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program (FMPBP) is part of Global Affairs Canada’s International Scholarships Program. The primary objective of the exchange is to create new institutional collaborations and/or to strengthen existing agreements between Canadian and non-Canadian post-secondary institutions eligible under the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP).

The program enables professors at Canadian post-secondary institutions to pursue short-term research and/or teaching activities in Latin America and the Caribbean as a means of exploring, creating and advancing institutional partnerships in the areas of research, student mobility, joint programming, capacity building, and others.

Eligibility

  • a candidate must be a full-time professor at a Canadian post-secondary institution
  • a host institution must be located in one of the following eligible 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

Application Process

Applicants should email global.engagement [at] mcgill.ca to receive the internal application form.

Once completed, the application must be returned to global.engagement [at] mcgill.ca, ensuring that all supporting documents are included. Global Engagement will submit the application on behalf of the candidate.

Key Dates

Recipients can travel no earlier than April 1, 2025. All funds provided by DFATD related to the project must be expensed by March 31, 2026, however the actual project end date may extend beyond March 31, 2026.

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