Postdoctoral Scholarships 2027-2028 (B3)

Who can apply: There is no citizenship bar, but there is a location bar, and the difference decides whether this is reachable from outside Canada. The default route requires you to be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident holding a valid RAMQ card at the competition deadline. An applicant who is neither is still eligible to… What is funded: A postdoctoral scholarship of 45,000 Canadian dollars a year for a minimum of six months and a maximum of two years, up to 90,000 dollars in total. You state the duration you need in the application form, and that stated duration fixes the award value, so think about it before you submit. A supplement of 10,000… Deadline: Deadline (application): October 8th, 2026. Round: 2027-2028 competition.

Read the full call and apply on the official page: Fonds de recherche du Quebec (FRQ), official page.

Who can apply

• There is no citizenship bar, but there is a location bar, and the difference decides whether this is reachable from outside Canada. The default route requires you to be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident holding a valid RAMQ card at the competition deadline. An applicant who is neither is still eligible to apply, provided they submit a consent form and a letter of acceptance from their research supervisor. Note that this differs from the master's and doctoral competitions, which also accept proof of admission to a Quebec university. Those applicants must carry out the postdoctoral internship in Quebec, must name a Quebec host environment, and must be continuously physically present in Quebec for the funding period. At the deadline you must have obtained a doctorate within the last two years, or plan to submit your doctoral thesis no later than 1 March 2028. Extensions to that window exist for parental leave, family obligations, bereavement, health reasons, a career period outside research, or disability. Applicants holding a regular professorial position at a university are ineligible, as are applicants who have already received a Quebec or Canadian postdoctoral award. Some partner sub-programmes listed later in the rules are restricted to citizens and permanent residents only; the main B3 competition is not. Applicants may submit to only one of the FRQ training award programmes (B1, B1M, B1DP, B2, B2M, B2DP, B3, B5) in a given year, so choose before you start. There is no application fee.

Stage dates

Dates come from the funder's page for this round. When a round closes, the next round's dates replace these once the funder publishes them.

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