The Government of Canada offers Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship program
for Canadian and foreign citizens. Up to 70 fellowships are awarded
annually (a total of up to 140 awards are active at any time).
The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides
funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and
internationally, who will positively contribute to the country’s economic,
social and research-based growth.
The objective of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships
program is to attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally
and internationally, develop their leadership potential and position them for
success as research leaders of tomorrow.
Applicants must have PhD-equivalent or health professional
degree from a foreign university.
Course Level: Fellowships program provides
support to the very best postdoctoral applicants.
Study Subject(s): Fellowships are awarded in following research areas:
Health research, Natural sciences and/or engineering and Social sciences and/or
humanities.
Number of Awards: 70 fellowships are awarded annually, a
total of up to 140 awards are active at any time.
Scholarship Award: Fellowships worth of $70,000 per year
(taxable) will be awarded.
Scholarship can be taken in Canada or foreign countries
Eligibility: Confirm that you and your proposed host
institution meet the criteria below before you apply for a Banting Postdoctoral
Fellowship.
Applications that do not meet all of the eligibility
criteria will not be accepted.
Applicant eligibility
Citizenship and location of host institution
Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada and foreign
citizens are eligible to apply with the following stipulations:
Applicants who are not Canadian citizens or permanent
residents of Canada may only hold their Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at a
Canadian institution,
Applicants who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents
of Canada and who obtained their PhD, PhD-equivalent or health professional
degree from a foreign university may only hold their Banting Postdoctoral
Fellowship at a Canadian institution, and
Applicants who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents
of Canada and who obtained their PhD, PhD-equivalent or health professional
degree from a Canadian university may hold their Banting Postdoctoral
Fellowship at either a Canadian institution or an institution outside of
Canada.
For a list of eligible health professions, please see CIHR’s
webpage.
The Banting PDF program previously had a limit of 25% on the
number of awards granted to postdoctoral trainees for tenure abroad. This limit
has been removed, effective as of the 2017-2018 competition.
Eligibility window for degree completion
Applicants to the 2017-18 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships
program must fulfill or have fulfilled all degree requirements for a PhD,
PhD-equivalent or health professional degree:
between September 20, 2014 and September 30, 2018
(inclusively), and
before the start date of their award.
Applicants who have not fulfilled all requirements for their
degree at the time of application must submit proof no later than October 15,
2018.
Allowable extensions to eligibility window
The window of eligibility can be extended by a cumulative
maximum of two years if the applicant had their career interrupted for the
following reasons:
Parental leave
Illness
Health-related family responsibilities
Mandatory military service
Additionally, for health professionals who have engaged in
post-degree non-research related clinical training (e.g. residency) – the
eligibility window can be extended by the duration of this training.
No other exceptions will be allowed.
Interruptions used to extend the eligibility window for
degree completion must have occurred after the fulfillment of your degree
requirements and before the application submission deadline.
Justification must be provided in Special circumstances.
“Fulfilled all requirements of the degree” refers to the
date that the applicant completed all the steps required for obtaining their
degree. Although these requirements may vary by institution and degree type,
they normally include thesis defence corrections and thesis deposition. It is
not the convocation date.
Host institution eligibility
Institutions eligible to host a Banting Fellow include
Canadian and foreign universities, affiliated research hospitals, colleges and
not-for-profit organizations with a strong research mandate and
capacity.Canadian governments (federal, provincial and municipal) and all
for-profit organizations are not eligible to participate as host
institutions.Please contact the Vanier-Banting Secretariat with any questions
regarding institutional eligibility well in advance of the submission
deadline. Other eligibility restrictions
Applicants who currently hold or have held agency-specific
(CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC) awards at the postdoctoral level are eligible to apply to
the 2017-18 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program only if the term of that
funding officially ends on or before September 30, 2018 and prior to the start
of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. Early termination of the
agency-specific postdoctoral award for the purpose of application to the
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program is not permitted.
Applicants can apply for both the Banting Postdoctoral
Fellowships program and other agency-specific postdoctoral fellowships programs
(whether to the same or a different federal granting agency) at the same time,
provided that the research proposed in each application falls within the
mandate of the federal granting agency to which the application is submitted.
For more information, please refer to Identify area of research.
*Applicants who are successful in both competitions will have to choose which award to accept.
*Applicants who are successful in both competitions will have to choose which award to accept.
Applicants must not hold a tenure-track or tenured faculty
position, nor can they be on leave from such a position.
Only in exceptionally rare circumstances will a Banting
Postdoctoral Fellowship be awarded to an applicant who is staying at the same
institution or within the same research environment where they completed their
PhD, PhD– equivalent or health professional degree. If an applicant chooses to
apply in collaboration with the same institution (or its affiliated hospitals,
research centres and other laboratories or within the same research
environment) at which they obtained their PhD, PhD-equivalent or health professional
degree, a solid justification must be provided in Special circumstances.
Applicants can submit only one application per competition
year to the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program.
Without exception, Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships:
are tenable only at the institution which supported the
original application for the program
must be taken up no earlier than April 1st and no later than
October 1st following the year of application
are for two years
can only be held once in a lifetime
Nationality: Canadian and foreign citizens can apply
for these Banting Postdoctoral fellowships.
College Admission Requirement
Entrance Requirement: Applicants must have
PhD-equivalent or health professional degree from a foreign university.
Test Requirement: No
English Language Requirements: Applicants from outside
the home country will often need to meet specific English language/other
language requirements in order to be able to study there.
How to Apply: The mode of applying is online.
Application Deadline: September 20, 2017 is the deadline for
complete application submission. Applicants seek endorsement from host
institution to apply, prepare and submit an application (institutions may have
internal deadlines) April – September.
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