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Acfas (the Francophone Association for the Advancement of Sciences) is pleased to open a call for applications for the . 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 10.

• 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.

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. (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 .

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Deadlines

Internal: August 28, 2023 at 4:30pm. For questions regarding internal procedure, contact the grants facilitator for your faculty. For additional resources, click here for guidance on internal deadlines and submission processes.

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