Queen Elizabeth Scholars - 2025 call for proposals

Universities Canada and the Rideau Hall Foundation are pleased to invite members of Universities Canada or Colleges and Institutes Canada to submit a proposal for the seventh call of the QES program.

QES 2025 will support projects that focus on the adaptation, response and resilience to a changing climate. This includes (but is not limited to) projects focused on biodiversity; agriculture; energy; climate and public health; economic impacts of climate change; air quality; community resilience; education; ecosystems; and water quality.

Projects will support international study, research, or internships for outbound Canadian students and/or study and research for inbound international graduate students. All QES funded activities must be for academic credit/recognition.

For all information on this call for proposals, please consult the program guidelines.

Please note that each institution may only submit one application through a central institutional account. The Office of the Vice-President (Global Engagement) will coordinate the McGill submission. McGill full-time faculty members who are interested in this grant should submit the application documents to global.engagement [at] mcgill.ca no later than Friday, May 24 at noon to allow us meet the external application deadline of June 7, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.

If you have questions about the QES program, please contact Matt Henderson at qes2025 [at] univcan.ca. If you have any further questions, please contact global.engagement [at] mcgill.ca.