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Eligibility conditions

(last updated on July 21, 2025 3:00 pm)

Candidates must meet all eligibility conditions at the competition closing time, namely, December 2, 2025;
The candidate must have been pre-selected by UQTR to take part in the competition;
Candidates cannot be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada;
Candidates cannot have applied for permanent resident status under Canadian immigration law;
Candidates cannot have already received a Merit Scholarship from Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur du Québec (MES);
The cumulative average of the candidate must be equivalent to 3.5/4.3 (if applicable, attach a document explaining the equivalence of marks in your country)

Only "research" type master's programs are eligible. To be considered “research” type, a master’s program must lead to the writing of a research thesis (note that an essay, a research report, a dissertation or an article are not accepted). Professional-type master's programs are not eligible.
The eligibility period corresponds to the first six sessions of graduate (master’s) studies. To apply, you must have been enrolled in a master’s program for no more than 3 full-time sessions (1 year) as of May 1, 2026. Any sessions already completed in a master’s program (or equivalent) at the time the scholarship takes effect will be deducted from the duration of funding.

Double doctoral degree programs (cotutelles) are not admissible.
Candidates are eligible for doctoral merit program scholarships from MES in the first nine sessions of their doctoral studies. All doctoral sessions, funded or unfunded, completed before the scholarship takes effect, are used in calculating the eligibility period. Semesters already completed in another Phd program are accounted for in the 9 semesters.
A candidate admitted into a doctoral program straight from a bachelor’s program and one who fast tracks into a doctoral program without writing a thesis must apply to the PhD scholarships competition to obtain the scholarship during the 3rd, 4th, and 5th years of their graduate studies (sessions 7^th to 15^th).
In this case, candidates may first apply for a Master's scholarship (VM) to obtain a scholarship for the first six graduate sessions.
Québec-Wallonie scholarship applicants must have studied in a French-language university institution in Belgium at the time they are granted their scholarship.

Postdoctoral fellowship scholarships are intended for researchers who obtained their degree no more than two years before the deadline for the competition or who submitted their dissertation by January 15th 2025 at the latest.
Postdoctoral research must be conducted in an institution other than the one that granted the Doctorate. The applicant’s doctoral supervisors and co-supervisors may not act as his/her postdoctoral supervisor, even if they have changed institutions.
The duration of this scholarship is one year. This scholarship is not renewable.

Specific conditions for candidates for short-term research or professional development component

Short-term research or professional development scholarships are intended for technical and university students (option A) or researchers who have completed a doctorate no more than five years before the deadline for the competition (option B).
The research of professional development must be conducted in an institution other than the one at which the applicant is enrolled.
The duration of this scholarship is four months. The scholarship is not renewable.
Québec-Wallonie scholarship applicants must have studied in a French-language institution in Belgium at the time they are granted their scholarship.