PROTEO Summer studentships (Undergraduate) (OPEN COMPETITION)

PROTEO Summer Internship Award Guidelines

Objectives

The objectives of the PROTEO Summer Internship Awards are as follows :

• To encourage the participation and integration of undergraduate students in research projects of PROTEO members;
• Stimulate interest in undertaking graduate studies;
• To allow students to improve their academic file and thus act as a lever to obtain grants from granting agencies;

Number of scholarships

• Ten (10) $3,000 scholarships will be awarded for the 2025 competition.

Conditions of eligibility

• The scholarships are reserved for students doing an internship under the supervision of a regular member of PROTEO, for projects related to the scientific themes of PROTEO.
• Candidates must have maintained a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0/4.3 (or equivalent) throughout their university studies.
• An applicant cannot receive the summer internship scholarship more than once.
• A regular PROTEO member cannot receive more than one scholarship at a time for summer interns under his/her supervision.
• Applicants are not eligible for a PROTEO summer internship scholarship if they already receive an internship scholarship of $4,000 or more, excluding contributions from the internship supervisor.
• The $3,000 scholarship must be supplemented by a minimum of $3,000 from the person supervising the internship.

Competition and Application Deadlines

The deadline for submission of applications is Friday, March 28, 2025 at 5:00 pm.
Results will be announced in April.

How to apply

To apply, candidates must fill the PROTEO scholarship form and transmit complete application material (one pdf file) by email to proteo@uqam.ca. The file must be named as follows: First name-Last name-Scholarship name.