The application period for 2026/2027 is now closed. 

Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program (FMPBP), part of Global Affairs Canada’s International Scholarships Program, is a three- to eight-week program valued at a $7000 maximum that enables full-time professors at Canadian universities to engage in short-term research and teaching activities in Latin America and the Caribbean in the areas of research, student mobility, joint programming, and capacity building to create new institutional collaborations or strengthen existing agreements under the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP)

Host institutions must be located in one of the following ELAP-eligible countries:

• Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos
• Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• North America: Mexico
• South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela