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Funding Period: September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026
Principal’s Global Fellows Fund
The Principal’s Global Fellows Fund provides up to C$10,000 for Queen’s faculty members and their counterparts in Queen’s strategic priority regions for expanding partnerships (Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, and Southeast Asia) to collaborate for the purposes of advancing an academic, research, student learning, or scholarly initiative.
Faculty members from the partner university will be designated Principal’s Global Fellows.
Funding
- Sliding scale of C$1,000 to C$10,000, depending on the budget rationale.
- Normally, no more than C$5,000 for travel, accommodation, and meals for inbound Principal’s Global Fellow and (if applicable) reciprocal travel by Queen’s faculty member.
Timelines
- Project to be completed within a year.
- Non-renewable.
Eligible Costs
- Inbound travel, accommodation, meals, visa, and UHIP costs for inbound faculty members to come to Queen’s for stays of between two weeks and four months.
- Reciprocal travel for Queen’s faculty members can also be included.
- Eligible travel expenses to be governed by Queen’s Travel and Expense Reimbursement policy.
- Convening costs.
- Program development costs (to vary by project)
- Funds may be transferred to partner university for expenses, as governed by Queen’s policies and national and provincial regulations, where permitted. Please note that there are restrictions on transferring of funds and applicants should consult VPGE before including in the budget.
Ineligible Costs
- Costs strictly associated with research (for example, equipment or software).
- Financial compensation or scholarships for students.
- Outbound travel by Queen’s faculty member only.
- Honoraria or salary payment to the Principal’s Global Fellow.
- Queen’s applicant must be a tenure-track or tenured faculty member at Queen’s University.
- Co-applicant(s) must be a faculty member or hold another relevant academic appointment at a recognized university in Africa, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, or Southeast Asia.
- Early career researchers (within 10 years of completion of doctoral studies) are especially encouraged to apply.
The project must produce a co-developed deliverable within one year of receiving funding and can include, but is not limited to:
- Preparation for and application to an international research grant
- Collaborative online international learning program (COIL)/virtual mobility program
- Development of cotutelles, and other forms of graduate level teaching collaboration
- Coordination and implementation of an outbound faculty-led student mobility program
- Summer or field school development and delivery (e.g. revenue generating micro-credential or cohort-based program at Bader College involving a global partner)
- Co-developed workshop
- Knowledge mobilization activities
The deliverable should be a new initiative that has not received funding from Queen’s.
Applications are assessed on their ability to demonstrate that they will:
- Involve collaboration with a recognized university in Africa, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia and Southeast Asia, with preference for strategic priority partners (see Appendix One), or collaborations related to global engagement and Indigenous Peoples with universities outside of Canada.
- Advance one or more objectives of the Queen’s Global Engagement Strategic Plan.
- Contribute to excellence in the student learning experience, research, and/or scholarly activity.
- Deepen collaboration between Queen’s and the collaborating university beyond participants directly involved in the project.
- Show evidence of feasibility and long-term sustainability.
- Implement a new deliverable or initiative that has not yet been funded by Queen’s.
Queen’s priority regions include Africa, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Funding is also available for collaborations related to global engagement and Indigenous Peoples with universities outside of Canada. We understand that there are complexities in defining these regions. Please contact global@queensu.ca if you have questions about the eligibility of your project.
Priority will be given to projects with Queen’s strategic partners institutions below.
Africa
- Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University
- Ghana: Ashesi University
- Kenya: any institution
- Nigeria: any institution
- South Africa: University of Pretoria, University of Western Cape, University of Witwatersrand
- Uganda: Makerere University
Middle East
- Egypt: American University of Cairo
- Morocco: University Mohammed VI Polytechnic
Latin America and the Caribbean
- The University of the West Indies
- Mexico: Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), University of Guadalajara
- Brazil: University of Sao Paulo, University of Brasilia, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Chile: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Universidad de la Frontera
- Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, Universidad del Rosario, Universidad de Antioguia
South Asia
- India: Tata Institute for Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, IIT Madras
Southeast Asia
- Indonesia: Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), University of Indonesia
- Philippines: University of the Philippines (UP system), De La Salle University
- Thailand: Chulalongkorn University, Mae Fah Luang University
- Vietnam: Vin University, University of Science and Technology Hanoi, Vietnam National University HCMC
- Malaysia: Universiti Sains Malaysia
Please note: travel by Queen’s faculty members to regions of the world with “avoid non-essential travel” and “avoid all travel” under is not eligible under this fund. Some restrictions may be placed on collaborations with institutions in countries that are subject to sanctions or specific research security guidelines by the Government of Canada or Government of Ontario.
All successful applicants will be invited to work with the Queen’s Immigration Consultant, to discuss Visa arrangements. Queen’s, however, is ultimately not responsible for the success of Principal’s Global Fellow Visa applications.
If your collaborator is not appointed at an existing Queen’s partner, we require an institutional MOU to be developed.
