Mandate and mobility programs
The Office for Science and Higher Education is dedicated to bilateral collaborations between France and Canada.
It is also dedicated to foster exchanges and increase mobility of researchers, doctoral students and entrepreneurs through various mobility programs.
Call for applications
Call for applications can be found in the News & Agenda section of our Website.
French Scholars Lecture Series
Program ended in 2023 due to the closure of the PWIAS.
In partnership with the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies (PWIAS) at UBC, the program brings leading outstanding academics from France to Vancouver for a series of conferences and open dialogue with their Canadian counterparts.
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Fonds France-Canada pour la Recherche
This France-Canada research funds aims at triggering collaborations for researchers in any given field in research. Call for proposals are open year round.
Contact us for more information.
Mourou/Strickland mobility program
The Mourou/Strickland mobility program was launched in 2018. It aims at initiating scientific partnerships between French and Canadian laboratories or research centres.
Contact us for more information.
Mitacs
Created in 1999, Mitacs is an organization funding student exchanges between Canada and its partner countries.
Following the visit in Canada of the French President Emmanuel Macron, France and Canada signed a new Letter of Intent regarding the partnership between Mitacs and Campus France.
In 2014, Mitacs has joined Campus France to improve student’s international mobility between France and Canada. In 2017, the program was expanded to internships. Mitacs also associated itself with the French National Institute for Informatics and Automatics Studies and the France Canada Fund.
The Letter of Intent signed in June 2018 showed the will to improve student’s mobility between France and Canada by increasing the amount of exchange students and interns. The goal is also to foster a better integration of the French regions and universities within Mitacs’ initiative. Strengthen
The fund is comprised of three programs:
Le Globalink Research Award
Le Globalink Research Internship
Accelerate International
In an effort to strengthen bilateral student mobility between France and Canada, numerous agreements have been put in place between French institutions and Mitacs.
Others are currently being worked on.
Student mobility : dual degrees and exchange programs
Current partnerships and student mobility at Canadian Universities :
UBC Sciences Po Dual Degree allows students to spend two years in France (in one of the three anglophones campuses) and two years at UBC in one their two well-known campuses: The Faculty of Arts et The Sauder School of Business. This dual degree program is the first of its kind for UBC. The first promotion graduated in May 2017.
SFU
The two universities have an exchange program and France is SFU’s most active country for the study abroad programs. In 2015, France was the country where the majority of SFU students went, and from where it received the most students.
Uvic
The partnership with Uvic dates back to 1998 and have been strengthening collaborations since then. Learn more.
Quick facts about Sciences Po in Canada
Sciences Po Paris currently has 16 partnerships with Canadian Universities which represents about 150 student placements. Canada is the third country where French students go during their third year.
Did you know ?
Some of Canada’s most renowned figures studied at Sciences Po such as Stéphane Dion and Pierre Trudeau.
For more information
- Sciences Po - UBC Dual Degree.
- Sciences Po - SFU Dual Degree.
- Sciences Po - Uvic Dual Degree.
- France’s Higher Education agency which provides information about University majors, accommodation, etc: Campus France.
Contact
Science & Higher Education Attaché
Géraldine DANTELLE
E-mail : geraldine.dantelle@diplomatie.gouv.fr
Assistant to the Attaché
Anthony LAHAYE
E-mail : anthony.lahaye@diplomatie.gouv.fr