Financial support and employment opportunities

Le Service des études supérieurs et postdoctorales of INRS has sent students a list of aid programs that have been set up since the beginning of this pandemic. For more information on each of these opportunities, we invite you to consult the email sent on Thursday, May 7, 2020. We can also forward it to you. You can also consult the respective sites of these programs (Information valid as of May 7).

Financial support – existing or upcoming measures

  • Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB)
  • Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB)
  • CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC: extension of certain graduate scholarships
  • Fonds de recherche du Québec: relaxed payment conditions for scholarships
  • Stipend from INRS
  • INRS Emergency Assistance Program for COVID-19 – Summer of 2020

Employment measures

  • International students: 20-hour/week limit for work in essential services lifted
  • International students: off-campus work without being registered full-time

Search for jobs

  • Staff still needed in long-term care centres (CHSLD)
  • Transitional job posting platform (COVID-19) – Government of Quebec
  • Job Connect | COVID-19 – Retail Employment Network
  • Job Bank | COVID-19 page – Government of Canada

Other investments announced – measures to come later

  • Enhancing Student Financial Assistance – for Fall 2020
  • Canada Student Service Grant – in a few week