Indo-Pacific Scholarships and Fellowships for Canadians – Call for proposals

The deadline for submitting your application is 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time, August 6th, 2025.

The Indo-Pacific Scholarships and Fellowships for Canadians (IPSFC) is a one-stage application process. Eligible organizations will submit a completed proposal that describes their proposed project.

The Government of Canada retains discretion in opening the IPSFC process and may cancel it at any time. The Government of Canada may later impose additional conditions for applying for IPSFC funding; applicants will be informed accordingly.

On this page

• Objective
• Eligibility
• How to apply
• Project parameters
• Funding
• Eligible expenditures
• Guidelines for letters of support
• Indo-Pacific region
• Proposal assessment criteria
• Available resources
• Accessing and using PDF forms
• Questions specific to this call
• Additional information

Objective

The IPSFC will provide support to eligible Canadian post-secondary academic institutions, university consortia and research organizations to award scholarships and research fellowships to graduate students, academics and researchers at their institutions to study or undertake research in the Indo-Pacific Region.

The IPSFC program will:

• Enhance the study and research capacity of Canadians in areas related to the Indo-Pacific Strategy
• Increase connectivity between Canadian and Indo-Pacific institutions dedicated to research and education
• Support new research streams and academic pursuits in Canada on the Indo-Pacific region.

Study or research must be in line with the Strategic Objectives of Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, including topics such as:

• Regional diplomacy
• Regional political change
• National and regional security
• Trade and economic cooperation
• Technological innovation
• Sustainable development
• Climate change
• Natural (including marine) resources management.
• Applied scientific cooperation.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply organizations must meet each requirement and, where stipulated, give supporting documentation:

• Your organization is legally incorporated in Canada and is a post-secondary academic institution, a consortium of universities*, or a research organization
• Can provide a Canada Revenue Agency business number

Each eligible organization may submit one (1) proposal. Organizations must coordinate across their respective faculties or units to develop the proposal.

*With respect to a consortium, it is not necessary to form a separate legal entity, but the legal status of each member needs to be proven. One member of the consortium must be identified as the lead applicant. The lead applicant of a consortium is required to meet all eligibility requirements

How to apply

1. Register in the Partners@International portal.
   • You will be required to provide proof of incorporation or proof of the organization’s legal status in Canada
   • It may take 10 or more business days to complete the registration. We recommend early registration
   • Don’t open multiple windows within the portal as this may cause technical problems.
   • Technical support for the portal is available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST, Monday to Friday.
   • For technical difficulties while registering or trying to submit a proposal, send an email to IPSFC-BERIPC@international.gc.ca
2. Email IPSFC-BERIPC@international.gc.ca by July 30, 2025, to request the IPSFC application package. The package will include:
   • Application form
   • Budget template
3. Complete and upload all documents to the Partners@International portal by 12pm (noon) Eastern Time on August 6, 2025. Your application package must include all of the following documents:
   • Indo-Pacific Scholarships and Fellowships for Canadians application form completed;
   • A completed preliminary budget;
   • Letter(s) of Support;
   • Financial statements for the last two fiscal years, signed by the chief financial officer or by a member of the board of directors duly authorized to sign; (audited statements are preferred);
   • signed by the chief financial officer or by a member of the board of directors duly authorized to sign;
   • ; signed by the chief financial officer or by a member of the board of directors duly authorized to sign;

Project parameters

You must be able to answer “yes” to all of the following statements for 抖淫视频 to consider your application:

• Your proposed project is starting after November 1, 2025, and ending before March 31, 2028.
• Your project funding request does not exceed $520,000 CAD.
• Your proposed project outlines how your organization will deliver a scholarship or fellowship project to graduate students, academics and researchers, which we define as:
  • Canadian (holders of Canadian citizenship or permanent resident status) graduate level students (including students at master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral levels)
  • Canadian researchers (including post-doctoral, academic and professional researchers associated with a research institution or think tank), and
  • Canadian academia (tenured or non-tenured academics)
• Your application includes at least one letter of support from an Indo-Pacific host institution for awardees of Scholarships or Fellowships.
• Scholarship and Fellowship recipients will travel to the Indo-Pacific (as defined by the Indo-Pacific Strategy)
• Administrative expenditures in your project budget do not exceed 15% of the total funding requested
• Your application package documents are complete and presented in either English or French

Funding

The total funding available under this call for proposals is up to $10 million over three years. Individual projects may receive up to $520,000 in funding. Applicants must provide a simplified project budget which outlines costs and administrative expenditures.

While there is no maximum threshold for each scholarship or fellowship due to circumstances that differ greatly from one award to another, the cost per scholarship or fellowship should be reasonable within the context of the proposed project. Therefore, it is the applicant’s responsibility to demonstrate the value for money as part of their proposal.

Eligible expenditures

1. A maximum of 15% of the total value of the proposed project can be used for the administrative expenditures of the recipient, which include:
   • personnel costs (i.e. honoraria, fees for personnel engaged to conduct administrative activities such as receiving and reviewing applications from potential awardees, organizing selection committees, participating in evaluation decisions on awards, communicating decisions on the awards, pre-auditing award payments and making payments);
   • office expenses (e.g. telecommunications, equipment, financial administration, bank costs).
2. Eligible expenditures under scholarships and fellowships including but not limited to:
   • tuition fees;
   • travel costs, including round trip airfare (the most direct and economic route), meals, incidentals, visa and related costs, study permit, travel insurance, health insurance;
   • accommodation costs, including rent and utilities;
   • learning and research materials (for example books and supplies) that are necessary for study and research, not including computers/laptops, IT equipment and specialized research instruments)

Please note that indirect/overhead costs are not eligible under this program. Administrative costs must be directly linked to project activities. Indirect costs are those costs that cannot be obviously traced to a specific program/project, for example, all indirect costs associated with the organization’s Canadian office(s).

Guidelines on letter(s) of support

Each application must include at least one letter of support from a host institution in the Indo-Pacific region, as defined by the Indo-Pacific Strategy. The Indo-Pacific host institution must be a post-secondary academic institution or a research organization. You can submit as many letters of support as necessary for the proposed project. If we select your project for funding, you may add other host institutions as necessary.

The letter of support must be:

• On official letterhead
• Dated within the last six months
• Confirms the project name and the level of the program of study or research (Master’s, doctoral, post-doctoral or academic fellowship)
• Confirms their willingness to host and support scholars and fellows during the period of study/research
• Explains how the Indo-Pacific host institution, faculty and peers will benefit from the attendance of Canadian scholars/fellows
• Signed by a relevant authority from the Indo-Pacific host institution.

Indo-Pacific region

Host universities or research institutions must be based in one of the eligible countries and economies in the Indo-Pacific region, as defined by the Indo-Pacific Strategy:

• Southeast Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste, and Vietnam.
• South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka.
• Northeast Asia: Japan, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Taiwan.
• Oceania: Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.

Please consult the Government of Canada  (TAA) before applying as the list of eligible countries and economies may change as this program won’t fund proposals in countries or economies (or in regions of a country) where TAA advises to avoid all travel (red category) or non-essential travel in the country (orange category). For example, while included in the Indo-Pacific Strategy, this program will not fund travel to Myanmar or Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) due to current Government of Canada travel advisories.

Please note that the IPSFC will not fund scholarships or fellowships to the People’s Republic of China. For information on scholarship programs that include China, review the .

Proposal assessment criteria

The Proposal Assessment criteria page provides a summary of the key assessment criteria used to evaluate proposals submitted under the Indo-Pacific Scholarships and Fellowships for Canadians initiative. Applicants are encouraged to carefully review and address each criterion in their submissions to ensure a comprehensive and competitive proposal.

Available resources

Resources are available online to help you develop your application package. We encourage you to read all of the following tools and guidance before beginning your application process.

• Results Based Management: A how to guide
• Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
• How to apply for funding through a call

Accessing and using PDF forms

Use only Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat to work on the standardized PDFs to submit with your application package. If you use other software, the data you enter may not appear once submitted to the department, and the application will be ineligible.

You may have difficulty downloading the proposal form because of the type of software installed, or not, on your computer. Please read and follow the . If you have all the correct software installed, download the form to your desktop and open it directly in Adobe Reader. Otherwise, other software installed on your computer may try (and fail) to open the form using your default settings.

Questions specific to this call

Please send your questions by email to IPSFC-BERIPC@international.gc.ca before Wednesday, July 30. We will not be responding to individual questions via email. We will address questions under the additional information section of this webpage throughout the call window.

抖淫视频 will be hosting two information sessions on the IPSFC call for proposals. A session in English will take place from 3:30-4:30pm EDT on Wednesday June 25, and a session in French will be from 3:00-4:00 pm EDT on Thursday June 26. The sessions will not take live questions. If you have questions, please send them via email prior to the session dates. To register for an information session, please email IPSFC-BERIPC@international.gc.caand indicate your preferred language.

Additional information

• For the purpose of submitting a proposal under the IPSFC, it is not expected that any scholarship or fellowship awardees be identified at this stage. However, your proposal should include a clear and feasible plan outlining how your organization intends to select the awardees once the project is approved. Please refer to the Assessment Criteria page for this call.
• Projects may take place in one or multiple Indo-Pacific countries, This is up to the applicant to develop in their proposal.
• There are no minimum or maximum stay requirements for recipients of scholarships and fellowships. This is up to the applicant to develop in their proposal.
• There are no requirements for academic credit recognition for study activities. This is up to the applicant to develop in their proposal.
• There is no cost share requirement for the Indo-Pacific Scholarships and Fellowships for Canadians program.
• As it relates to Canadian researchers and academia, Canadian is defined as a Canadian citizen or permanent resident status holder.
• Post-doctoral fellows may be considered as eligible recipients of either scholarships or fellowships, as long as they meet the residency requirements defined above and depending on the project design of the applicant.
• A consortium of universities is defined by the Program as 2 or more Canadian universities coming together for the purposes of implementing an IPSFC project.
• Student stipends are an eligible cost. Eligible costs are those which are required to deliver on the proposed project, within defined parameters. The list of eligible expenses is non-exhaustive.
• Travel costs for beneficiaries not currently residing in Canada are an eligible cost. Eligible costs are those which are required to deliver on the proposed project, within defined parameters. The list of eligible expenses is non-exhaustive.
• International students or temporary residents are not eligible to be recipients of scholarships or fellowships.
• The indicated project end date of March 31, 2028, would mark the end of activities, with final reporting to follow.