Applications Open for Canada-Brazil Awards!

Deadline: 11 October 2017

Applications are open for the Canada-Brazil Awards with an aim to support team-oriented research projects between Canadian and Brazilian universities collaborating in mutually beneficial areas of research. The collaborations are expected to result in high quality research that will have an impact in Canada and in Brazil through the mobility of both Canadian and Brazilian research students and Project Leads.

The Canada-Brazil Awards – Joint Research Projects is the first scholarship program created in the context of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concerning Academic Mobility and Scientific Cooperation signed in August 2010 between the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) of Canada and the Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) of Brazil.

Duration

Project activities should be scheduled over 24 months and must begin between April 2018 and September 2018.

Eligibility Criteria

This competition is open to research teams from Canadian and Brazilian universities. The coordination of the project will be the responsibility of both the Canadian and Brazilian Project Leads and the teams will consist of graduate Project Members from Canadian institutions and PhD Project Members from Brazilian institutions.
Canadian and Brazilian Project Leads:
- must be citizens or permanent residents of the country of their institution;
- must be active faculty members or academic staff on sabbatical leave, of a recognized higher education or equivalent degree granting institution;
- must hold a PhD and must have held the title of doctor for at least four years;
- must be proficient in the language of instruction at the Canadian institution (English or French); and
- who are retired faculty members are not eligible.
Canadian and Brazilian Project Members:
- must be citizens or permanent residents of the country of their institution;
- must be graduate students – Canadian institutions may propose both Master’s and PhD students with the agreement of their Brazil partner institution;
- must be enrolled full-time at a post-secondary institution in their country of origin and paying the tuition fees required by that institution for the full duration of the exchange;
- must be proficient in the language of instruction at the Canadian institution (English or French); and
- already participating in an exchange program in Canada or in Brazil are not eligible.