Fulbright Canada Short-term Entrepreneurship Award 2026 – YOA

Deadline: October 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Fulbright Canada Short-term Entrepreneurship Award 2026. The Fulbright Canada Short-term Entrepreneurship Award helps American entrepreneurs at any stage of their work trip, looking for to discover new markets, develop strategic insights, and strengthen cross-border collaboration via a 4-week residency in Canada.

Open to students, college students, professionals, and artists with lively entrepreneurial pursuits, this award facilitates the time, area, and assets to pursue impartial analysis, market exploration, or enterprise growth actions in a dynamic new surroundings.

Whether launching a startup, rising a social enterprise, or commercializing analysis, awardees profit from tailor-made assist and entry to main entrepreneurial platforms. The award is part of the Fulbright Canada Entrepreneurship Initiative (FCEI), designed to empower entrepreneurial leaders to construct relationships, take a look at concepts, and advance options with the potential to generate constructive financial and social affect, with out the formal expectations of educational studying.

Benefits

Awardees will profit from each the assist of the Fulbright Specialist Program and the entrepreneurial assets of the FCEI:

• Short-term Residency: Undertake a 4-week residency within the host nation.
  • Conducting market or subject analysis
    Exploring commercialization alternatives
    Building institutional or sectoral relationships
    Advancing your enterprise or artistic enterprise within the North American market
• Entrepreneurial Support: Receive ongoing entrepreneurial steering from StartupScience.IO, a digital platform providing structured entrepreneurial assist, professional content material, and enterprise-constructing instruments.
• Accelerator Access: Gain entry to Alacrity Canada’s accelerator program providing startups strategic perception, enterprise growth assets, and mentorship.
• Project Endorsement: Opportunities to construct relationships and broaden networks with native entrepreneurs, buyers, incubators, and innovation leaders.
• Practical Application: Encourages the sensible application of analysis findings to develop and commercialize entrepreneurial initiatives. Use the residency to replicate, take a look at, iterate, or broaden your entrepreneurial concepts in a brand new surroundings.

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be professionals, college students, or students with in depth expertise of their subject and possess modern concepts with the potential for important social affect.
• Grantees for this award have to be U.S. residents.

Application

Applications have to be submitted electronically on or earlier than October 30.

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For extra info, go to Fulbright Canada Short-term Entrepreneurship Award.