SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION

The submission can be made in French or in English. Please pay particular attention to the quality of the writing.

The scholarship application must be sent before the deadline via the online form (Submission tab). Make sure you receive an acknowledgment of receipt when submitting the form to confirm submission of the file. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure they receive confirmation of submission. The Research Department disclaims all responsibility in the event of a problem with the delivery of the file. If the file is not received before the deadline, it will not be evaluated. No updates to the file will be accepted after the deadline.

The Research Center reserves the right to reject any incomplete file.

APPLICATION FORM

Complete the web form (Submission tab) by filling out each section. 🏆Read the evaluation criteria carefully to increase your chances of success!

The form includes the following sections:

Description of the research project (max. 1500 words)
Text describing the research project for which the scholarship is requested by specifying, in order: 1. Research rationale and hypotheses, 2. Research objectives, 3. Experimental design and methods, 4. Feasibility 5. Impact of research and contributions to the advancement of knowledge, 6. A maximum of 6 bibliographical references.
🏆The research project must be described in a way that is understandable to someone who is not an expert in your field. The hypothesis is often forgotten.

Skills and experiences (max. 750 words)
Description of the participation in research projects and training courses during the previous studies. Identify: Project and internship director, location of the internship, start and end dates, number of hours per week, total number of hours for each internship, specify whether the internship is mandatory or optional.
🏆Make the work of evaluators easier by using paragraph breaks between each stage.

Motivation letter (MSc and PhD: max 750 words. Postdoc: max 1200 words)
Letter of motivation describing the research interests, the scientific career objectives, the justification of the chosen place for training (lab, program, institution, etc.) and the link between the training already acquired and the one proposed. Postdoctoral fellows must include a detailed carrer plan.
🏆Explain the reasons behind your choice of research center, laboratory/supervisor. Saying that you wanted to study in Montreal because you love the city does not constitute an adequate justification.

Leadership and implication (max. 300 words)
Description of the student's involvement in various committees or associations, volunteering and other relevant extracurricular activities demonstrating the student's leadership.
🏆Don't leave this section empty! The experiences may have been acquired in the academic or non-academic field.

Evaluation

Each application will be reviewed by three evaluators. The applications will be assigned randomly among the reviewers in each group, and each reviewer will evaluate approximately 15 applications.

The evaluation committees are composed of active, associate or invited researchers as well as postdoctoral fellows (for the evaluation of the MSc and PhD candidates only) from the CHUSJ-RC.

The reviewers are not necessarily specialists in the field of research of the applicants they are evaluating, therefore research projects must be written in such a way as to be accessible to researchers from different fields of research.

The candidate will be evaluated according to criteria such as academic performance, previous experience in research, publications, presentations, the expected orientation of career, the impact of the project, and the choice of laboratory for scientific training.

Recruitment Scholarships: Recruitment scholarships will be awarded to eligible students with the highest scores, until funds are exhausted. A student cannot obtain a recruitment scholarship if he or she obtained an excellence scholarship as part of this competition for the same year.

Precision Health Scholarship: The application will be evaluated within the framework of both competitions by the same jury. The best candidates will be selected for the Precision Health scholarship (one scholarship per category). Other applications received may obtain a scholarship from the CHU Sainte-Justine Foundation if they have evaluation results above the funding threshold.

See the evaluation criteria for more detail.