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Funding Opportunity: Canada UK University Partnerships Program



Funding Opportunity: Canada/UK University Partnerships Program (CUUPP)

Funder: Foundation for Canadian Studies in the United Kingdom & Canadian High Commission London

The objective is to encourage and support the initiation, development and diversification of institutional partnerships between British and Canadian Universities, in association with government, the private sector and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in both Britain and Canada. Grants will only be made towards these (e.g. at the departmental/faculty/whole institution levels), NOT simply for personal collaboration between individual academics who happen to be based in universities situated in Britain and Canada. The grants will be developmental rather than sustaining. In other words, they are intended to initiate a new partnership or develop/diversify an existing one.

Value: Up to £1,000

Grants from the Foundation will be small and supplementary to other sources such as the universities themselves. They will not normally exceed £1,000.  The Foundation will not normally cover more than a maximum of 50% of the overall costs of a visit by a British university representative to Canada; or of a Canadian to Britain. 

Categories of Partnership

1)    Collaborative research projects

2)    Co-operative teaching ventures

3)    Shared academic meetings

4)    Joint publications by partner universities

5)    Professional development enhanced through university partnerships

    6)     Adjunct Professorships/Teaching Fellowships held in the partner university

7)    Academic Faculty Exchanges between partner universities

8)    Administrative Exchanges between partner universities or between regions of Canada and the UK

9)    Student Exchanges

10)  Student Work Experience/Placements attached to the partner university

11)  The internationalization of the university curriculum: British/Canadian Studies or comparative dimensions introduced into regular teaching programs of partner universities

12)  Comprehensive Partnerships between British and Canadian universities

Applications

•      Applications may be submitted by either British universities directly; or from Canadian universities through their British partner institution.

•      Applications must be submitted to the Foundation Projects Administrator through the Canadian High Commission London, Academic Relations Program by 31 January, 31 May, and 31 October each year. Results are normally notified within two months of each of these dates.

•      Grants will be paid in two installments: an initial sum equivalent to two-thirds of the total grant, in advance of the visit; and the balance to be paid on completion of the visit, and receipt by the Foundation of a written report outlining what was done during the visit and how that has contributed both to the specific project and towards the overall institutional partnership as a whole.

 

For more information about the program, or to request an application form, please contact:

Le Li                                                                 

International Research Facilitator

International Research Office

Research Services

University of Saskatchewan

Email:  le.li@usask.ca