Funding opportunities for global engagement are available through a wide variety of channels. The following links provide useful information on select University-wide opportunities.
For discipline specific opportunities, please contact your faculty for further information. For information on funds for international research projects and on major international grant opportunities, contact the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR).
Current Select Opportunities
Indo-Pacific Scholarships and Fellowships for Canadians (IPSFC)
Global Affairs Canada is offering up to $520,000 per project through the Indo-Pacific Scholarships and Fellowships for Canadians (IPSFC) program. Designed to strengthen academic ties with the Indo-Pacific region, this is a key opportunity to fund study or research abroad.
McGill may submit one proposal — multi-Faculty collaborations encouraged.
Internal deadline: July 23, 2025
International Funding Sources
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 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. 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).
Please email global.engagement [at] mcgill.ca if you want to apply, so we can send you the form. Global Engagement needs to receive the applications by November 19, 2024. Global Engagement then submit the applications on behalf of the candidates.
Canada-China Scholars’ Exchange Program The Canada-China Scholars Exchange Program provides opportunities to Canadian academics, students and professionals who wish to study and/or do research in subject areas related to China at participating Chinese institutions.
For further information, visit Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service DAAD Canada is dedicated to informing Canadians about the opportunities for study and research in Germany. Information is provided on DAAD’s suite of scholarship and grant programs to students and faculty at Canadian universities, and work to build ties between German and Canadian universities.
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Erasmus+ Erasmus+ is a European Union program which supports short-term teaching exchanges between European and non-European higher education institutions. Interested McGill researchers should contact their European collaborators to see if McGill is or could become one of their Erasmus+ partner institution.
For more information, contact global.engagement [at] mcgill.ca
Fulbright Canada The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program operates on the principle of reciprocal exchange and provides the opportunity for outstanding American and Canadian students and scholars to study, lecture and/or conduct research in the other country.
To apply for funding opportunities, please click here.
McGill-Glasgow Travel Award The historical links between McGill University and the University of Glasgow go back to 1756, when McGill founder, James McGill, was a student at the University of Glasgow. Over the years, the connections between the universities have been strengthened through a shared commitment to the internationalization of education, expressed through a host of research collaborations and student exchanges. In recognition of this historic partnership, and the Glasgow Honorary Doctorate given to McGill Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Suzanne Fortier, in 2015, McGill will support the short-term mobility of PhD students and postdocs in any discipline seeking to initiate or strengthen research ties with the University of Glasgow.
For further information, visit Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
Mitacs Globalink Fund your students’ research abroad and work with talented international undergrads. Globalink offers two-way mobility for senior undergrads, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
For information on current opportunities, visit Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
The Queen Elizabeth Scholars (QES) program The Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship program, known as the QES, is led by the Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF) in collaboration with Universities Canada, and with founding support from Community Foundations of Canada (CFC).
When applications are open, contact global.engagement [at] mcgill.ca to obtain all required application information.
Research Funding at McGill
While the Global Engagement team helps share exciting funding opportunities with the McGill community, the primary sources of information for such opportunities are the Office of the Vice-President, Research + Innovation (R+I), including the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR), for academic staff and the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS) for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.
We encourage researchers and students to consult these office's websites for the most up-to-date details on available funding and eligibility criteria:
