Internships funded up to $5,000 for a total of $20,000

Competition launch: January 2021  
Contest closes: February 26, 2021
Evaluation of proposals: March 2021
Announcement of results: April 2021

Funding objectives:

Encourage the development and exchange of expertise;
Encourage excellence in the work of RQEI students;
Encourage collaboration between the RQEI’s partners, including educational institutions, industry and other partner organizations.

Conditions to be met:

The internship project must involve at least one student (college,^1st,^2nd cycle or^3rd university cycle);
The internship project must involve at least two RQEI professor-researchers from different institutions;
One of the two research professors must not be the supervisor or co-supervisor of the student’s study project;
One of the two research professors must not have already received funding from the RQEI in 2020;
The internship project must last a maximum of three months and end no later than August 31, 2021;
The internship must be related to the RQEI’s scientific program (https://www.rqei.ca/recherche/).

Eligible expenses:

Convenience pay to the student intern (including benefits) or scholarship top-up.

Evaluation criteria:

Excellence of the student intern’s record (20 points);
Relevance of the internship project to develop skills complementary to the student’s study project (20 points);
Relevance and feasibility of the internship project: originality, relevance of the methodological approach and scope of the project (30 points);
Correlation between the expertise of the research professors as presented in the CV and the purpose of the internship (20 points);
The Project improves the trainee’s training and skills by leveraging the Network’s inter-institutional environment (10 points).