Deadline: October 3rd, 2012, 4 p.m.
The objective of the postdoctoral research scholarship program is to promote up-coming researchers working in various research environments by helping new doctorate holders to broaden their field of research.
These scholarships also seek to encourage the mobility of researchers toward scientifically stimulating and dynamic environments. These environments may be universities, industries, government agencies and university affiliated institutions.
CLIENTELE
Postdoctoral research scholarships are intended for new researchers who obtained their doctorate and who wish to begin or pursue their postdoctoral research.
ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS
Candidates must meet each of the following three conditions:
- Be Canadian citizens or permanent residents within the meaning of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (L.R.C., 2001 ch. 27). (A permanent resident has obtained landed immigrant status without having acquired Canadian citizenship) ;
- Have been living in Quebec for at least one year;
- Be residents of Quebec within the meaning of the Quebec Health Insurance Act (L.R.Q. c. A-29) and of the Quebec Taxation Act (L.R.Q. c. I-3)
Persons who maintain their Quebec resident status within the meaning of the Quebec Health Insurance Act in particular those living outside Quebec solely for the purpose of continuing their studies, are deemed to be living in Quebec. Persons who do not maintain their Quebec resident status and who have been living outside Quebec for fewer than two years after having, for at least five years, been domiciled in Quebec and having been residents within the meaning the Quebec Health Insurance Act are exempt from residence requirements
Scholarship holders must meet citizenship and residence requirements within the meaning of the Quebec Health Insurance Act and of the Quebec taxation Act for the entire duration of their scholarship
Restrictions
Candidates who have benefited from a postdoctoral research scholarship from one of the three Quebec funding or federal agencies may not submit another application for this program
Eligibility period for the scholarship:
Postdoctoral research scholarships are intended for new researchers who obtained their doctorate no more than two years prior to the competition deadline or who will have submitted their thesis in January 2014 at the latest, the deadline for holding the fellowship.
The graduation date is considered to be the date at which all of the degree requirements were completed, including the successful completion of the thesis examination and submission of the revised version of the document.
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