Granted by the FRQS, the Tremplin Consortium of McGill Affiliated Health Research centres aims to promote a strong professional development infrastructure within our community. This regroupment capitalizes on existing strengths and ongoing initiatives within participating centers.

The Tremplin Ambassador Award enables supervisors, postdocs, and employees to distinguish themselves in the support offered to students. Supervisors, in particular, play a crucial role as sources of career advice for Masters, PhD, and postdoctoral candidates, whatever their career aspirations.

The funding opportunity is intended to support the development of graduates and postdoctoral trainees, contributing to the skills and knowledge required for a wide range of careers within and outside of academic research settings.

Through this competition, we wish to fund training activities that builds trainees’ capacity in areas of biomedical and health research, and support the development of skills that increase employability in diverse careers.

Activities submitted to the competition can take a variety of forms (workshop, seminar, virtual or in-person, podcast, job fairs, conferences, individual-group coaching, community building, networking, etc.) and must meet one or more of the following objectives:

• Promote awareness of academic and non-academic career opportunities in a given
discipline.
• Development of one, or more, key research skills, such as (but not limited to) : Leadership;
Inclusion and Diversity in Research and in the Research Environment, Transdisciplinary work,
Problem solving, Collaborative Research; Communication; Management, Negotiation,
Professional autonomy; Creativity and Innovation, Philanthropy in advancing Research,
Programing, Biostatistics, Artificial intelligence, Omics, Policy, Entrepreneurship, etc.
• Empowering trainees in self-development and the sense of community.

Maximum funding is $2,000 per project, to be completed by the end of fiscal year. Ambassador Award Application deadline: August 19, 2025. 

Your trainees need help navigating their career plans since they are interested in a variety of roles that require multiple role models.

At Tremplin Consortium, we have a student-centered approach for trainee career development, regardless of the chosen path, which can be academic or non-academic. That said, we recognize the considerable influence that supervisors have on students. More than anybody else, the current supervisor is the most frequently asked for career advice, with or without academic career aspirations, by master’s, PhDs, and PDF. We see this trend as an opportunity to work together to reduce the gap in trainee career development.