Scholarships, funding, and other opportunities for displaced scholars and researchers in Canada
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This database refers users to scholarship and research funding opportunities for displaced students and researchers who are already in Canada.
A separate database for displaced scholars and researchers who would like to come to Canada is available here .
For opportunities available to refugees and other displaced people in other countries, please refer to the UNHCR database: https://services.unhcr.org/opportunities/search
If you would like to suggest an addition to the database, please contact unbordered-SSF@uottawa.ca
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McGill Students and Scholars at Risk Fund
Researcher
Threatened scholars and researchers
McGill University
Montreal
Research funding
The Fund provides a source of financing and an academic home by arranging temporary research and teaching roles as well as stipends or fellowships for living expenses.
Diverse Qualifications Admission
Student
Students with refugee backgrounds
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, Surrey,
Vancouver
In-kind support
SFU Diverse Qualifications (DQ) Admission allows us to see beyond your academic transcript by taking more than your grades into consideration. You may consider applying through DQ if you are a domestic student with a refugee background.
Simon Fraser Student Society & WUSC Undergraduate Award for Refugee Students
Student
Protected convention refugee (must be Canadian permanent resident or Canadian citizen)
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, Surrey,
Vancouver
Financial award
The Simon Fraser Student Society & WUSC Undergraduate Award for Refugee Students was established at Simon Fraser University in 2022 with a generous five-year commitment from the Simon Fraser Student Society.
Principal’s Global Fellows
Researcher
It supports faculty and post-doctoral fellows displaced by war, conflict, and political instability.
Queen's University
Kingston
Research funding
Principal’s Global Fellows Program provides funding to increase academic and research activity between Queen’s faculty members in the four priority geographies (Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, Southeast Asia).
Principal’s Global Scholars
Student
Graduate and undergraduate who are forcibly displaced students and those who hold precarious immigration status
Queen's University
Kingston
Financial award
Principal’s Global Scholars provides forcibly displaced students and those who hold precarious immigration status with an admissions pathway and funding to complete their degree at Queen’s.
U of T Mississauga Refugee Pathway (UTMRP)
Student
Be a Permanent Resident or Convention Refugee in Canada. Status in Canada must be approved (Notice of Decision is required to show approved Refugee Status in Canada)
University of Toronto
Toronto
In-kind support
The U of T Mississauga Refugee Pathway (UTMRP) offers recent refugees who may meet traditional admission requirements, but who do not have access to required documents, the opportunity to create a basis of admission on which to be considered for entry to undergraduate degree studies at the University.