Québec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Students (PBEEE) 2024-2025

Québec University, Canada

Description

Québec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Students (PBEEE) 2024-2025

Applications are currently invited from eligible and outstanding candidates for Québec Government Merit Scholarship for Foreign Students. This will support the internationalization of research activities in Québec’s higher education institutions.

The Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT) is responsible for managing the program. It was commissioned by the Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur du Québec (MEES) which provides the funding.

Nationality: International Students

Important dates

Submission of applications for preselection: variable (see in the Toolbox).
Submission to FRQNT of the preselected candidates by responsible bodies (universities, CCTT network): September 30, 2023, 4 p.m.
Submission to FRQNT of the candidates preselected by CSC: before March 31, 2024.
Submission of application to FRQNT by preselected candidates: November 1, 2023, 4 p.m.

Deadline (application) : November 1st, 2023 at 16:00 (EST)

Announcement of results :April 2024

Scholarship Objectives

In support of the Québec government’s science policy, the Merit Scholarship for Foreign Students program has the following objectives:

Support the internationalization of research activities in Québec’s higher education institutions;
Attract top foreign researchers and students and promote international recognition of Québec universities and College Centres for the Transfer of Technologies (CCTT);
Create cultural links and pave the way for the setting up of joint scientific research projects.

The Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT) is responsible for managing the program. It was commissioned by the Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur du Québec (MES) which provides the funding.

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Characteristics

The program has a component open to students of all countries and five specific components reserved for students from Brazil, China, India, Israel and Wallonia. These specific components arise from agreements concluded between Québec and foreign governments.

This program covers higher education as a whole by providing CCTT researchers and administrators with the opportunity to participate.

The Merit Scholarship Program for Foreign Students has four components:

Master’s research scholarships (VM)
Doctoral research scholarships (V1, 1B, 1C, 1I, 1IS, 1W)
Postdoctoral scholarships (V2, 2B, 2C, 2I)
Short-term research or professional development scholarships (V3, 3B, 3C, 3I, 3IS, 3W)

Eligibility Criteria

This competition is open to all candidates who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada and who have not applied for permanent residence under Canadian immigration laws.
These scholarships are intended for foreign students or researchers from all research sectors (health, humanities and social sciences, arts and letters, natural sciences, and engineering)
Candidates are eligible for doctoral merit program scholarships from MEES in the first nine semesters of their doctoral studies.
Postdoctoral scholarships are intended for researchers who have obtained their PhD no more than two years before the competition deadline or who submitted their doctoral dissertation by January 15, 2024.

Application Procedures

Once preselected, the candidate must create an account in the FRQnet system. The FRQNT will then contact all preselected candidates to complete an electronic form to which the required documents will be attached, and which must be submitted electronically by the competition deadline time and date set by the Fonds.
The form may be completed in French or English. Candidates who apply in English must provide a French title for their project.
Please refer to the Presentation Standards for Attached Files in the FRQnet electronic Portfolio when preparing the files to be attached to the form.
Files cannot be updated after the application deadline.

Required documents

All required documents must be included in the application for it to be considered eligible. Any documents that are illegible, of a poor resolution or that do not allow verification of the application’s eligibility will be rejected.
Documents submitted in a language other than French or English must be accompanied by a basic translation.

Notice

A notice of the application’s transmission for evaluation or of its non-eligibility will be sent to you by email in December at the latest. A candidate who has not received this notice should contact the program manager before December 15.

Evaluation

To find out more about the rules governing the scholarship evaluation process, please refer to Section 4 of the CGR.

Applications are assessed according to the following evaluation criteria and weighting:

Awarding of scholarships

Scholarships are offered by competition, on a merit basis.

Scholarship holders are selected by multidisciplinary committees formed of professors/researchers.

Scholarships are offered according to the available budget.

Decisions are final and cannot be appealed. There is no review process.

Rules for using scholarships

Scholarship holders must comply with all the rules described in detail in the scholarship holder’s guide.

IMPORTANT

Please note that scholarship payments will only begin after the Fonds has received a copy of the study permit (for doctoral scholarships) or a copy of the work permit (for postdoctoral scholarships).

At the time candidates receive their scholarship payments, they must be working full-time on the program of study, research, or professional development for which they were awarded the scholarship.

Scholarships are awarded for the duration of the eligibility period and are subject to the presentation of progress reports deemed satisfactory for each full year of funding in the case of doctoral scholarships (V1, 1B, 1C, 1I, 1IS, 1W) scholarships, and at the midpoint of the funding period in the case of postdoctoral scholarships (V2, 2B, 2C, 2I).

By accepting the grant, you grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, non-transferable licence to the Ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur or its partners and to the FRQNT on the final report and the research findings that have been made public. This licence allows them to reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, make public by any means whatsoever, represent or demonstrate these findings in public, and carry out further research studies based on these findings. This licence is granted without territorial limits and for an unlimited period of time.

By accepting the grant, scholarship holders undertake to clearly indicate in any report, article, presentation or other communication that the research was funded by the Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur in partnership with the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies.

Period for using scholarships

The scholarship period must begin between May 1, 2024, and January 15, 2025.

Barring exceptional circumstances, scholarships cannot be carried over from one year to the next. It is therefore not possible to delay the scholarship starting date after January 15, 2025.

The scholarships are not retroactive and semesters completed before summer 2024 cannot be funded.

Place where scholarship is used

Scholarship recipients must attend the Quebec university or the College Centre for Technology Transfer (CCTT) at which they were preselected and study or conduct their research there.

Joint (cotutelle) degree programs are not eligible.

Rules regarding concurrent scholarships

The scholarship may not be held concurrently with:

Scholarships granted by government departments or by Canadian or Québec government grant agencies.

The scholarship may be held concurrently with:

Scholarships from the private sector, from the government of the scholarship holder’s country of origin, and university scholarships.

Paid employment

The scholarship holder must respect the requirements of their study permit or work permit with regard to part-time work. These requirements are specified by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Part-time work, if any, may be accepted only if the supervisor of the scholarship holder does not object and if such activities do not affect the research program.

The salary that students receive from their supervisor for working solely on their research project is considered a scholarship for which concurrent funding is permitted.