"Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program"

Job Description

Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program

The Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program (FMPBP) provides opportunities for Canadian faculty to do short-term research and teach in Latin America and the Caribbean. The program is offered by Global Affairs Canada to support Canada’s education relations and engagement in the region by advancing institutional partnerships in the areas of research, student mobility, joint programming, and capacity building.

The primary objective of the program is to increase, diversify and strengthen institutional collaborations between Canadian post-secondary institutions and their counterparts eligible under the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP).

Canadian institutions interested in participating should promote the grant to their faculty and to eligible partner institutions. Canadian faculty interested in participating should review the eligibility criteria and contact their international office for application details.

Eligibility

To be eligible,

• ✔ a candidate must be a full-time professor at a Canadian post-secondary institution
• ✔ a Canadian post-secondary institution must be a Designated Learning Institution (DLI)
• ✔ a host institution must be located in one of the following eligible countries:

• Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos
• Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• North America: Mexico
• South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela

Scholarship value and duration