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Programs: Overview
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Our Programs
The Cole Foundation funds medical research through the Cole Foundation Fellowship program as well as the Transition Grant program. Intercultural Conversations is a bi-annual competition to support theatrical production, translation of commissioning. Please follow the links below for more details.
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Cole Foundation Fellowship
Launched in 2007, and offering two-year Fellowship grants to clinical, doctoral, and post-doctoral student scientists. Over $6 million has been committed to more than 150 researchers in Greater Montreal laboratories, hospitals, and universities.
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Intercultural conversations
A semi-annual theatre competition to support plays that explore voices and stories from and about Montreal’s diverse cultural communities. Grants are accorded for commissioning of new plays, translation and production.
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Transition Grants
These 3-year grants are offered to early-career researchers to support the establishment of their new lab.