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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Aug 29

We are grateful to all who joined the inaugural McGill Global Engagement Connector Series — Convening Minds for Global Impact. Diplomats from 20 countries, @mcgill.ca leaders & researchers came together to spark collaborations. 🌍✨ #mcgillu #AnchoredLocally #EngagedGlobally

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Aug 8

📣Appel à projets 📣

🇫🇷Le Programme Samuel-De Champlain 2026-2027 appuie de nouvelles collaborations universitaires et scientifiques franco-québécoises.🇫🇷

📚 30 000 $ CAD + 20 000 € sur 2 ans

📅 Date limite : 17 sept. 2025

🔗 Plus de détails : mcgill.ca/x/inL

McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Aug 6

🔔 Are you an early-career researcher ready to shape global science?

Global Young Academy brings together early-career researchers from 6 continents to advance innovative, inclusive global dialogue. Apply now!

📅 @mcgill.ca deadline: Sept 2

🔗 To learn more: mcgill.ca/x/inW

Call for New Members - Global Young Academy

GYA Home Members Call for new members Call for New Members is open and accepting applications. The next call for members will open 15 July 2025. Applications are sought from young, independent schola...

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McGill University @mcgill.ca · Jul 23

Gault Nature Reserve (@info_gault) grows internationally while staying rooted locally 🌱 Partnering with Peru & Belgium, it leads a biodiversity project using camera traps & AI - supporting research, field courses & students.

🔗 Read more: mcgill.ca/x/ie4

People standing in front of body of water at the gault nature reserve - Johana Reyes (Founding Member and President of the Board, Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon), Martin Duval (Services and Security Manager, Gault Nature Reserve), Natalie Beenaerts (Professor at UHasselt and project leader of the Field Research Centre), and David Maneli (Associate Director, Gault Nature Reserve).

Photo of a red fox exploring Mont Saint-Hilaire at Gault

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Aug 1

#McGillglobalretrospective

Last May, @mcgill.ca renewed its MOU with Ashesi University, deepening a partnership rooted in innovation & community impact. Since 2019, this collaboration has fostered research & shared solutions to global challenges. 🌍

🔗Read more here: mcgill.ca/x/iej

McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Jul 24

Faculty worldwide are invited to teach & research at @scpo-research.bsky.social in 2026-27!

Open visiting faculty positions include AI & society, gender, environment & more.

Join a dynamic global academic network.

🗓️Apply by Nov 7th, 2025.
🔗 Details + apply: www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en...

Visiting Faculty

Every year, around a hundred researchers and professors from around the world come to conduct their research and teach at Sciences Po. During their stay, they are fully integrated into our university’...

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McGill University @mcgill.ca · Jul 18

Starting next winter, @mcgilldesautels.bsky.social will offer its Master of Management in Finance program in Luxembourg, part of the University’s efforts to not only bring the world to McGill but McGill to the world. 🌎

Read more in the McGill Reporter: mcgill.ca/x/isg

On June 18, a signing ceremony took place in Luxembourg with representatives of the Luxembourg Ministry of Finance, the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry, the Luxembourg Bankers’ Association and McGill University’s Provost Christopher Manfredi (standing, centre), Yolande Chan, Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management (seated, 2nd from left) and Professor Patrick Augustin (standing, 2nd from left).

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Jul 14

#McGillglobalretrospective
🌱Last February, @mcgill.ca participated to CIAC 2025 (‪@asiapacificfdn.bsky.social‬). The conference highlighted how McGill initiatives such as Dobson Centre & McGill Engine are shaping the future of entrepreneurship. ‬ ‬
🔗 Read more here: mcgill.ca/x/iWr

Universities at the Heart of Start-Up Innovation: McGill at the 2025 Canada-in-Asia Conference

At the Canada-in-Asia Conference 2025 in Singapore, McGill’s Vice-President of Global Engagement, Professor Anja Geitmann, moderated a high-level panel exploring how universities fuel innovation and f...

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Jul 4

#McGillglobalretrospective

🌱Last November, Prof. @geitmannlab.bsky.social delivered a keynote at the Global Forum of University Presidents at Sun Yat-sen University.

🔗 Read her powerful call for global academic collaboration here: mcgill.ca/x/iWL

#HigherEd #GlobalEngagement

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Jun 25

📣 #McGillglobalretrospective 📣

We’re introducing a new series #McGillglobalretrospective where we’ll reflect on some of McGill Global Engagement’s activities in 2024-2025 on BlueSky and X over the summer!

🌐📚Stay tuned!

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McGill University @mcgill.ca · Jun 20

June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day. A time to reflect, to honour, and to continue the work of reconciliation.

Explore the 52 Calls to Action guiding efforts across McGill. 🔗mcgill.ca/indigenous

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Jun 20

McGill’s Global Engagement Office invites the McGill community to take part in a survey from the @royalsoced.bsky.social‬’s North America Working Group. Your input will help shape future collaboration and funding opportunities with Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

👉 mcgill.ca/x/iPW

McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Jun 20

Call for Proposals: Indo-Pacific Scholarships and Fellowships for Canadians (IPSFC) www.mcgill.ca/global-engag... via @mcgillge.bsky.social

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Fonds de recherche du Québec @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social · Jun 6

🎓 #communautéFRQ, vous êtes titulaire d’un doctorat? Vous souhaitez mettre à profit les compétences transversales développées durant votre formation? Le conseil scientifique vous intéresse?

Deux nouvelles résidences scientifiques à l'étranger s'offrent à vous!

frq.gouv.qc.ca/a-la-recherc...

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · May 28

@mcgill.ca was pleased to host Provost Jeff Thompson and the University of Nevada, Reno delegation for strategic conversations with @mcgill-research.bsky.social on advancing collaboration in energy transition R&D and training.🔬⚡️Exciting discussions on powering a more sustainable future — together!🌎

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · May 28

🌐 The McGill and the World newsletter is out! Explore funding opportunities, partnerships, and tools and ideas to support international engagement across the @mcgill.ca community. 📬

👉 Read here: mcgill.ca/x/ig7

🔗 Subscribe here: mcgill.ca/x/ign

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · May 16

Dans le cadre de l’exposition Les Chercheuses en BD à @mcgill.ca, @franceqc.bsky.social s’est entretenu avec Marjorie Cellier, chercheuse mcgilloise spécialisée dans le comportement alimentaire et le bien-être des animaux d’élevage🔬🐮.

➡️Visionnez l’entrevue ici : www.youtube.com/watch?v=trXp...

Marjorie Cellier, Chercheuse post-doctorale en bien-être animal – WELL-E

YouTube video by Consulat général de France à Québec MEAE

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McGill University @mcgill.ca · Apr 24

McGill joined fellow members of the U7+ Alliance of World Universities in urging the G7 to strengthen and support North-South academic collaborations, develop training programs for capacity building, and expand student exchange programs in AI.

➡️ mcgill.ca/x/iG7

U7+ Summit in Ottawa - 22-23 April, 2025 | U7+

The Seventh U7+ Summit took place in Ottawa on April 22 and 23, 2025.

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Apr 17

UG, @mcgill.ca Renew Partnership to Deepen Research and Academic Collaboration www.ug.edu.gh/news/ug-mcgi...

UG, McGill University Renew Partnership to Deepen Research and Academic Collaboration | University of Ghana

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Apr 8

@mcgill.ca recently met with Prof. Neera Agnimitra at the University of Delhi to explore partnerships in light of India’s National Education Policy 2020. With shared values and a focus on inclusive, globally engaged education, we discussed exciting opportunities in teaching and learning. 🌐📚

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Apr 4

@mcgill.ca a eu le plaisir d’accueillir l’équipe d’ @agroparistech.fr au campus MacDonald pour des échanges stimulants, couronnés par la signature d’une entente 🤝 Un partenariat stratégique qui renforce nos liens avec une institution de renom 🇨🇦🇫🇷 #Durabilité🌱🌍
@geitmannlab.bsky.social

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Mar 21

🎥À l'occasion de la Francofête 2025 de @mcgill.ca, une université ouverte sur le monde et ancrée au cœur de la francophonie, découvrez un entretien sur le rôle vivant et rassembleur de la langue française!

McGill University @mcgill.ca · Mar 20

Dans le cadre de la Francofête 2025 et à l’occasion de la Journée internationale de la Francophonie, le recteur de McGill, Deep Saini, et l’étudiante Ema Sédillot-Daniel échangent sur leur parcours et leur rapport au français, langue de diversité. mcgill.ca/x/iim

Campus Conversations: Francofête 2025 / En direct du campus : Francofête 2025

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Mar 17

The Delegation of the European Union to Canada invites you to an online webinar on Horizon Europe’s funding opportunities for Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space on Thursday, March 20, 2025, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT, online.

🔗Register here: mcgill.ca/x/iwn

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Mar 14

📣 Appel à projet 📣

Êtes-vous à la recherche d’occasions de collaboration en France? Soumettez votre candidature d’ici le 16 mars à la Tournée des chercheuses et chercheurs québécois en France 2025, organisé par @franceqc.bsky.social

🔗Renseignements : mcgill.ca/x/iwh

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McGill Global Engagement @mcgillge.bsky.social · Mar 11

Recherche et Innovation : la compétitivité du Québec passe par l’international www.corim.qc.ca/fr/conferenc...

Recherche et Innovation : la compétitivité du Québec passe par l’international

Luc-Alain Giraldeau - Directeur général, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)

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