AGENCY: The Canadian Government PROGRAM: Canadian Studies Grant Program OBJECTIVES: This program provides funding for comparative research and teaching, faculty exchanges, student mobility, and collaboration between American and Canadian researchers. The Canadian Government will fund projects under three programs: 1) Research Grant Program - This program assists individual scholars or teams of scholars in writing an article-length manuscript of publishable quality with a focus on Canada or Canada-U.S. relations. 2) Doctoral Student Research Award – This program offers doctoral students an opportunity to conduct part of their dissertation research in Canada. The program is intended for students whose dissertations are related in substantial part to the study of Canada. 3) Faculty Enrichment (Course Development) Program – This program provides faculty members an opportunity to develop or update a course with substantial Canadian content that will be offered as part of their regular teaching load. Topics that are highly relevant to Canada-U.S. relations include smart and secure borders; North American economic competitiveness; regulatory cooperation; Canada-U.S. trade and investment partnership; energy security and sustainability; environmental sustainability; emergency planning and management; Canada-U.S. security and defense cooperation; Canada in Afghanistan; global health policy; and changing demographics in North America. Collaboration with researchers at Canadian institutions is strongly encouraged. ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS: Faculty members at accredited U.S. four-year colleges and universities, as well as scholars at American research institutions, may apply to the Research Grant Program. Recent Ph.D. recipients who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States are also eligible to apply. Doctoral Student Research Award - This program is intended for doctoral students at accredited U.S. and Canadian four-year colleges and universities whose dissertations are related in substantial part to the study of Canada or Canada-U.S. relations. Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States and should have completed all doctoral requirements except the dissertation when they apply for a grant. Faculty Enrichment (Course Development) Program – Faculty members should be able to demonstrate that they are already teaching, or will be authorized to teach, a course with substantial Canadian content (33% or more). Applicants are ineligible to receive the same grant in two consecutive years or to receive two individual category Canadian Studies grants in the same grant period. DEADLINES: FUNDING INFORMATION: For Research Grant awards applicants may request funding up to US$15,000; applicants whose project focuses on the priority topics listed above and who can demonstrate matching funds from others sources may request funding up to US$20,000. For Doctoral Student Research awards applicants may request funding up to US$10,000. For Faculty Enrichment awards applicants may request funding up to US$6,000; applicants may request an additional US$5,000 specifically to support student travel to Canada. AGENCY CONTACT: REMARKS: Applications must complete the online application form (http://www.canadianembassy.org/education/grantapp-en.asp) and submit the remaining application materials electronically in a single file (in Rich Text (RTF) or Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format) to AcademicRelations@canadianembassy.org. Complete program guidelines and application material may be obtained from the web site listed above or from the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP). Please distribute this notice to any faculty or staff members who might be interested in the information. For more information, please contact the OSP at X3-4365 or ospinfo@bu.edu, or visit the OSP web site at http://www.bu.edu/osp. |
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