Bavaria-Québec News

Mandatory expression of interest for Canadian applicants: September 19, 2025
Submission deadline for joint application form: November 28, 2025

Further information can be found here.

The Government of Canada has announced a record-breaking $1.3 billion investment to bolster innovative research in the sciences and humanities. 

The WKS Bavaria-Québec/Alberta/International at BayFOR regularly invites guests to a virtual dialogue on current topics of international research cooperation between its partner regions.

On June 26, 2025, the Bavarian State Chancellery hosted the 18th meeting of the Bavaria-Québec Working Group in person and via video conference.

As part of the cooperation agreement between Bavaria and Québec, there is a call for applications for scholarships in the field of Québec Studies for the year 2025. 

The EU Delegation to Canada will host an online webinar on April 10, 2025, to discuss climate, energy, and mobility-related topics, provide advice for proposal writing and consortium formation.
 

From 8 to 13 September 2019, the Bavarian Minister of State for Digital Affairs, Judith Gerlach, visited high-tech hotspots Montréal and Toronto.

At the initiative of the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, a delegation travelled to Canada from 3rd to 8th June 2019 to visit high tech sites in Montréal, Toronto, and Waterloo.

On 14 and 15 April 2019, the Bavarian Minister of State for Science and the Arts, Mr. Bernd Sibler, visited Bavaria’s long-standing partner province Québec. 

On 24 January, 2019, the annual ‘’Bayern-Québec Student Network Meeting’’ took place at the invitation of WKS. In attendance were master and doctoral students who completed a research stay in Québec supported by the WKS mobility support programmes during 2017 and 2018.