The sixth edition of the International Policy Ideas Challenge call for proposals has just been launched.
Description: The objective of the program is to draw on the network of talented Canadian graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and early-career civil society researchers to identify concrete, innovative solutions to emerging international policy challenges faced by Canada.
The program offers applicants a chance to test their skills at translating academic expertise into policy language and insights.
Themes:Each proposal should outline a trend, dynamic, or research question affecting Canadian foreign policy in relation to one or more themes provided below that applicants believe needs additional study.
- Canada-led or- supported actions with close partners, including the G7 and NATO, and/or through Canada’s engagement with international organizations, including the UN, that aim to do 1 or more of:
- promoting peace and security
- responding to arbitrary detention, economic coercion or cyber-threats
- responding to the international COVID-19 pandemic
- Canada-led or -supported international responses that advance support for democracy, rule of law, media freedom, inclusive governance and/or human rights, particularly those made in coordination with the G7 and NATO, which could include responding to foreign interference in democratic processes and/or egregious violations of human rights
- Applying lessons learned from COVID-19 response and recovery to informing and strengthening Canada’s international assistance in the areas of pandemic preparedness and recovery; you may focus on priority issues, such as:
- strengthening health systems
- the One Health approach
- education for refugees and forcibly displaced children and youth
- prevention of gender violence
- paid and unpaid care work
- protections for migrant workers in the care economy
- decent work and employment in a post-COVID-19 world
- other social and economic considerations
- Ways Canada should further support developing countries in taking climate action through adaptation, mitigation and resilience, with particular emphasis on the needs and rights of women and marginalized vulnerable groups; you may focus on 1 or more priority issues, such as:
- international climate finance, including blended finance
- feminist approaches
- nature-based solutions
- biodiversity
- small-island developing states
- Africa-focused programming
- Indigenous-led solutions
- locally led climate solutions
- climate change and security
- How Canada can help to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system that will help raise the standard of living for all Canadians. You may focus on 1 or more priority issues, such as:
- Strengthening and securing critical supply chains
- Advancing Canada’s global leadership on critical minerals
- Ensuring that Canada’s trading relationships are mutually beneficial economic relationships
- Ensuring that Canadian businesses operating abroad do not contribute to human rights abuses
- Combatting protectionism, unfair trade practices and economic coercion around the world
- Positioning Canada as a top destination for global investment while balancing Canada’s national interests
- Ways to advance Canada’s export diversification strategy, to enable Canadian businesses to grow internationally and to create economic opportunities through increased and more diverse trade and investment. You may focus on 1 or more priority issues, such as:
- Addressing bilateral trade issues with the United States
- Developing a strategy for economic cooperation across Africa
- Reinforcing economic cooperation in our hemisphere
- Building stronger economic linkages as part of a new Indo-Pacific strategy
- Negotiating a Canada-United Kingdom Trade Agreement
- Advancing Canada’s inclusive free trade agenda
Eligibility: current graduate students (Master’s or PhD level) and post-doctoral fellows at a recognized Canadian post-secondary educational institution; must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada
Deadline: May 20, 2022
Amount: $3000
More information and how to apply…
Questions: contact Global Affairs Canada at: IPIC-CIPI.POR@international.gc.ca.