Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP)
Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) Scholarships
The program advances Canada’s education relations and engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean by offering Canadian post-secondary institutions the opportunity to host international students from the region for short-term exchanges.
Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) Faculty Mobility Partnership Building Program
The Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program (FMPBP) provides opportunities for Canadian faculty to do short-term research and teach in Latin America and the Caribbean. The program is offered by Global Affairs Canada to support Canada’s education relations and engagement in the region by advancing institutional partnerships in the areas of research, student mobility, joint programming, and capacity building.
FIDERH: Fondo para el Desarrollo de Recursos Humanos
FIDERH: Fund for the Development of Human Resources
The Fund for the Development of Human Resources (FIDERH) is a federal trust fund managed by the Bank of Mexico, focused on financing graduate studies for Mexican students. It is also part of SECIHTI’s National System of Public Centres. In 2021, FIDERH celebrated 50 years of providing loans to Mexican students to finance their graduate studies in the best universities in Mexico and around the world.
Mission
To contribute through the provision of loans, to the training of highly qualified human resources for the benefit of Mexico.
Vision
To be nationally recognized as the best educational financing alternative for the benefit of the ³ÉÈË´óƬ possible number of Mexican nationals, through the best use of resources.
SECIHTI: The Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation
The Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation (SECIHTI) is the Mexican Government (2024–2030) agency that formulates and conducts national policy in these areas. It brings together and coordinates the capabilities, knowledge, resources, and talent of researchers and technologists to consolidate a scientific, humanistic, technological, and innovation National System.
As the sector’s lead agency, SECIHTI exercises the Mexican government’s stewardship in the humanities, sciences, technologies, and innovation, and contributes to educational policy, primarily in higher education, in coordination with the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP).
The Secretariat designs and implements strategic projects through the Undersecretariats of Science and Humanities, and of Technological Development, Outreach and Innovation, as well as a Cross-cutting Policy Unit. These entities contribute to collaborate, understand, and address national priorities through an interministerial, intersectoral, and interinstitutional work model.
Thus, SECIHTI establishes links between the academic, governmental, private, and social sectors through the National Common Space Network for Education, Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation (National Ecos Network), to ensure compliance with the strategic objectives for both the sciences and the humanities, as well as technological innovation, which will enable knowledge advancement in the country.
Furthermore, SECIHTI manages the Rosario Castellanos National University and the University of Health (UNISAL); and coordinates the National System of Public Centers (CP), composed of 24 nationally and internationally recognized institutions. SECIHTI also strengthens the scientific community through various calls for grants and scholarships (national, for inclusion and for study abroad); and stimulates national scientific activity through the National System of Researchers and the Researchers for Mexico Program.
