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Acfas (the Francophone Association for the Advancement of Sciences) is pleased to open a 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. 

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, Quebec or at Université de Saint-Boniface.

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.

Click here to read about the projects funded in 2022.

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.

Click here to read about the program and apply.

Funder Deadline: September 10, 2023. The selected projects will be able to start in the winter of 2023.

For questions regarding internal procedures, please contact your appropriate Research Grant Facilitator at ORS. For additional resources, click here for guidance on internal deadlines and submission processes.