CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - Understanding Canada Grants & Awards, Deadlines 1 Nov and 23 Nov 2010 [23.09.2010]
Call for Applications: Understanding Canada Grants & Awards
The objective of the Government of Canada’s Understanding Canada program is to develop a greater knowledge and understanding of Canada, its values and its culture among scholars and other influential groups abroad. The program is intended for foreign academics who want to study about or conduct research on Canada. Some components of the program are also available to promote teaching, publications and conferences about Canada in various disciplines.
ELIGIBILITY
Open to all disciplines and issues, however it is generally only disciplines in the social sciences and humanities which fit within the program’s objective.
Priority may be given to proposals which address the following areas:
• Peace and Security
• North American partnership
• Economic Development and Competitiveness
• Democracy, Rule of Law, Human Rights
• Managing Diversity
• Environment/ Energy
N.B. Purely scientific subjects and projects that focus exclusively on technological or methodological issues are not eligible for funding through these programs.
Faculty Research Program (FRP)
The FRP is designed to assist individual academics in higher education institutions to undertake short term research in and about Canada. The purpose is to increase knowledge and understanding of Canada through publication abroad of pertinent articles in the scholarly press.
Deadline: November 1
Guidelines and Application Form:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/assets/pdfs/FRP_guidelines2010.pdf
Faculty Enrichment Program (FEP)
The FEP is designed to increase knowledge and understanding of Canada abroad by assisting academics in higher education institutions to develop and teach courses about Canada in their own discipline, as part of their regular teaching workload. The program enables academic FEP award holders to gather the necessary information and material on Canada to devise a new course on Canada, or to modify or extend significantly the Canadian component of an existing course.
Deadline: November 1
Guidelines and Application Form:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/assets/pdfs/FEP_guidelines2010.pdf
Doctoral Student Research Award (DSRA)
The DSRA is designed to assist full-time PhD students enrolled in higher education institutions abroad, whose dissertations are related in substantial part to Canada, to undertake part of their doctoral research in Canada. The purpose is to increase knowledge and understanding of Canada and to support the development of Canadian Studies.
Deadline: November 1
Guidelines and Application Form:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/assets/pdfs/DSRA_guidelines.pdf
Canada-Asia-Pacific Award (CAPA)
The CAPA is designed to support scholars in universities or research institutes in the Asia-Pacific region to undertake short term research, including collaborative research, contributing to the understanding of bilateral and multilateral relations between Canada and this region.
Deadline: November 23
Guidelines:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/assets/pdfs/CAPAGuidelines.pdf
and Application Form:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/assets/pdfs/CAPAForm_en.pdf
International Research Linkages (IRL)
The IRL program facilitates international collaborative research by providing assistance to teams of researchers from Canada and one or more countries abroad, in order to organize seminars or other forms of research linkages. The program is available worldwide.
Deadline: *November 23
Guidelines:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/assets/pdfs/IRLGuidelines2010.pdf
All applications from Australia or New Zealand must be submitted (by the relevant deadline below) to:
Academic Relations Officer
Canadian High Commission
Commonwealth Avenue
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
Email: cnbra.academic@international.gc.ca
Ph: 02 6270 4051
For more details please visit: http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/australia-australie/academic_relations_academiques/grants-bourses.aspx?lang=eng
or contact the Academic Relations Officer at the above address.