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Call for candidacies Québec bursaries for francophones within Canada

Québec, August 9, 2007 – In launching its new program entitled Programme de bourses du Québec en matière de francophonie canadienne (Québec bursary program for Francophones within Canada), the Government of Québec has given tangible form to another one of the ten core-building actions found in the action plan accompanying its Policy on Francophones within Canada, la Politique du Québec en matière de francophonie canadienne, unveiled on November 7, 2006. The call for candidacies for the awarding of these new bursaries, which will be offered beginning in the spring of 2008, is currently underway and will end on October 17, 2007.

This initiative, which is the result of a partnership between the Secrétariat aux affaires intergouvernementales canadiennes du Québec (SAIC) and the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), aims to foster the development of research on Francophones within Canada and to support the training of up-and-coming researchers in this field. These bursaries will be awarded in such a way as to offer financial support to students whose research projects are innovative, open new avenues of research, and provide relevant input in terms of the consolidation and development of the Francophone sphere in Canada, including the strengthening of ties between the Francophones of Québec and those of Francophone and Acadian communities.

The Programme de bourses du Québec en matière de francophonie canadienne offers:

  • Five Master’s level bursaries, each having an annual value of $15,000 and valid for a two-year period. They are available both to students in Québec universities wishing to study in a program offered in French by a Canadian university outside Québec and to students from Francophone and Acadian communities wishing to continue their studies at a French-language university of Québec.
  • One Doctorate level bursary having a value of $25,000 for the first and second years and of $20,000 for the third year in a French-language university of Québec awarded to a researcher from a Francophone environment outside Québec.

Persons wishing to submit a bursary application under this program are asked to consult the web site of the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture at the following address:  Ce lien ouvrira une nouvelle fenêtre. http://www.frqsc.gouv.qc.ca/.