2025-2026 Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program (FMPBP) Competition

Global Affairs Canada has launched the 2025-2026 Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program (“FMPBP”) competition. This program offers grants to full-time Canadian faculty for short-term teaching and/or research activities in Latin America and the Caribbean.  

The FMPBP award is valued at CAD$7000. Recipients’ travel can occur from April 1, 2025. All funds must be expensed by March 31, 2026.

Multiple applications are allowed per institution. All applications must be submitted by the Global Learning Office through its institutional My EduCanada account.

Interested faculty should consult the FMPBP guidelines here and contact the Global Learning Office (Miyuki.arai@smu.ca) by Friday, October 18 2024 in order to allow enough time to prepare applications for submission by the deadline of Tuesday, November 19 at 11:59 pm EST.

The scholarship administrator will communicate successful results to Canadian institutions in February 2025.

Announcement from the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE)

IOHE is accepting applications for the Virtual Internships with the Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE). The deadline for submitting applications is February 23rd, 2024 (5pm, Montreal time, GMT-05). To apply, fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/i58W9t5FVGAg7wpj6.

Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program

Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program

The Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program’s 2022-2023 competition is now open. This program offers grants to full-time faculty for short-term teaching and/or research activities in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program aims to support Canadian postsecondary institutions that are either developing new collaboration and/or student exchange agreements or strengthening existing agreements with ELAP-eligible institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Priority may be given to first-time candidates, institutions developing new partnerships, and institutions with limited previous experience in international collaborations.

·         Program name: Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program

·         Funding organization: Government of Canada

·         Target audiences: Canadian postsecondary institutions and full-time professors

·         Duration: 3 to 8 weeks in FY2022-23 (April 1 2022-March 31 2023)

·         Inclusions: airfare, living expenses, health insurance, visa or work permit fees and other eligible expenses

·         Deadline: December 2, 2021 (please submit all application materials to Miyuki.arai@smu.ca by Nov 26)

·         Maximum grant value per candidate: CAD 7,000

·         Final selection and results announcement: February 2022

The Global Learning and Intercultural Support Office will apply on behalf of eligible candidates by completing and submitting the online application form. Interested faculty should review the program detail and inform their Department Chair and the Dean of their intent to apply before contacting the Global Learning Office (Miyuki.arai@smu.ca) about completing the application by Fri Nov 26. All complete applications meeting the eligibility criteria will be submitted.

If there are any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us via email at Miyuki.arai@smu.ca.