About the Program

EduCanada has launched the Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program for the 2024-25 academic year. 

The program provides Canadian professors with opportunities to create or expand partnerships with Latin American and Caribbean institutions through short-term teaching and/or research activities, as a means of exploring, creating and advancing institutional partnerships in the areas of research, student mobility, joint programming, capacity building, and others.

The primary objective of the exchange is to create new institutional collaborations and/or to strengthen existing agreements between Canadian and non-Canadian post-secondary institutions eligible under the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP).

The maximum grant value per candidate is CAD $7,000. Recipients may seek additional funding from other sources (private or public). The duration of the mobility is three (3) weeks minimum and eight (8) weeks maximum. Successful candidates may extend their stay with funds from other sources. Successful candidates can travel no earlier than April 1, 2024. All funds provided by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development related to the project must be expensed by March 31, 2025, however the actual project end date may extend beyond March 31, 2025.

Eligibility

Candidates must be full-time faculty members at Canadian post-secondary institutions. Grant recipients must teach or conduct research in eligible ELAP countries in the Caribbean, Central, North, and South America.

How to Apply:

To be considered for the Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program, UBC must apply on behalf of the candidate by completing and submitting the EduCanada online application form. UBC’s Office of Global 

All completed application materials must be received by global.partnerships@ubc.ca by Friday, November 17th at 11:59pm as follows:

• Completed Application Form (NB: please contact global.partnerships@ubc.ca for partnership facts related to question 5 as needed)
• Completed Budget Form
• Completed Privacy Notice Statement
• Curriculum Vitae (CV) of the candidate, 6 pages maximum
• Letter of invitation from the host institution

UBC’s Office of Global Engagement will complete the following submission materials:

• Letter of support from the Canadian institution’s International Office (NB: letter will be completed once all submission documents have been received by the deadline of November 17th)

We ask all candidates to please also note the reporting requirements - within 30 days of the termination of the project, grant recipients must produce a narrative report of maximum 5 pages.

For questions related to this opportunity, please contact global.partnerships@ubc.ca.