EMERGING LEADERS IN THE AMERICAS PROGRAM (ELAP)

The ELAP scholarships provide students from post-secondary institutions located in Latin America and the Caribbean with short-term research exchange opportunities in Canadian post-secondary institutions.

Candidates must be citizens of an eligible country/territory:

• Caribbean (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos)
• Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama)
• North America (Mexico)
• South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela)

For more info, please visit: http://www.sfu.ca/international/index/funding/other-funding-opportunities/elap.html

P.S. Gerardo Otero is willing to accept a student in the areas of food sovereignty, agroecology and climate transitions in rural areas.

Carol Hernández

Carol Hernandez holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Portland State University, U.S., and is a professor/researcher at the University Program of Bioethics, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her areas of interest focus on agriculture and climate change, seed sovereignty, and indigenous social movements.