Global Research Opportunities - Global Engagement

Available global research funding available for York faculty, students and scholars to promote international research collaboration and mobility. See the Office of the Vice President, Research and Innovation, for all available funding opportunities and research competitions.

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(only available to York faculty, students and staff)

Global Research Excellence (GRE) Fund: aims to supercharge the efforts of York’s emerging and established research leaders to collaboratively build and lead impactful global research networks. Being one of Canada’s largest research-intensive universities, York operates on a global scale by serving as an international hub for many critical areas of inquiry.

York's Global Research Excellence (GRE) Seed Fund fulfills the University’s commitment, in Engaging the World: York University’s Internationalization and Global Engagement Strategy launched in 2023, to strengthen international research engagement by investing in a seed fund to catalyze such collaborations.

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York International Funding for Organizing International Research Workshops at York: If York faculty are organizing an exploratory or proposal development-focused research workshop at York with leading international partners, and planning to engage other York faculty for this workshop, they can apply for funding support of up to 1,000 CAD for catering/hospitality expenses.

This opportunity is subject to the availability of funding, matching commitments from the applicant, merit (academic rationale, alignment with Global Engagement Strategy/Strategic Research Plan, impact, sustainability/scalability etc.), and whether the applicant or applicants have an up to date (with York affiliation) and public ORCID ID. If you have received GRE Stream A or Stream B seed funding for this collaboration, you are not eligible to apply for this funding opportunity.

Assistant Vice-President, Global Engagement & Partnerships will review requests for support.

Please contact GRE@yorku.ca for information/questions

Other Internal Resources

Please note this list is compiled based on the location of the sponsor. It is not an exhaustive list.

Canada

European Union

United Kingdom

Other International

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CONTACTS AT YORK FOR SOME OF THE ABOVE OPPORTUNITIES

For external grant applications or to bring in visiting scientists, please get in touch with your Faculty Research Office first/loop them in early on in conversations with stakeholders outside your Faculty.

Research Commons supports developing external grant proposals for several external funding programs. For more information, see here.

To host international visiting graduate/undergraduate researchers, please see here for more information about the process (this process is applicable to all international visiting research students at York ).

For help with safeguarding your research while building international partnerships, please see here for York resources. Contact: Rebecca Irwin, Director-Safeguarding Research, rirwin1@yorku.ca

For Mitacs Student/PDF awards, please get in touch with Rachel Sung, Mitacs Specialist at Office of the VP Research & Innovation sungr@yorku.ca

For external inbound/outbound student mobility opportunities (ELAP, ASEAN SEED, and Study in Canada Scholarships), please get in touch with Ashley Laracy, Associate Director, Global Learning, alaracy@yorku.ca

For those interested in/planning to collaborate with international industry, please contact Courtney Cole, Business Development Manager ccole23@yorku.ca