The 2024 France Canada Research Fund (FCRF) New Research Collaboration Program, which promotes partnerships between researchers in Canada and France, has just launched.
This program is open to every field of expertise and promotes interdisciplinary projects. The program provides funding for new scientific projects jointly developed by French and Canadian teams that have never worked together before. Applications must come from principal investigators, both from research establishments located in France and Canada.
The FCRF supports up to 20 collaborative projects each year. Up to 8 of the funded projects may fall within one of the two priority themes. This year’s priority themes are 1) One Health?: A multi-sector approach to achieving health equity, and 2) Climate change and adapting to extreme environments.
The 2024 FCRF guidelines and application form can be downloaded here: https://francecanadaculture.org/france-canada-research-fund/
Internal Selection Process:
The FCRF requires that all universities pre-select a maximum of 5 proposals.
To be considered for UBC’s internal selection, researchers must email their applications directly to UBC’s FCRF correspondent, Heather Frost (heather.frost@ubc.ca) by November 17th, 2023. Applications should be submitted as a single PDF.
UBC will conduct an internal pre-selection to identify a maximum of 5 proposals to send to the Embassy for evaluation by December 22nd, 2023.