Postdocs in Canada face mismatch between skills training and future careers

A report released today on the status of postdocs in Canada – the most comprehensive of its kind – shows that postdocs have two main concerns: they need to be better prepared for future careers and they want clarity and consistency in their administrative status and compensation at universities. The 2013 Canadian Postdoc Survey: Painting […]

A new survey of postdoctoral scholars in Canada paints a portrait of early career researchers who are generally satisfied with their research environment but frustrated by their ambiguous employment status, poor compensation and inadequate training. The online survey (PDF), released on Oct. 2, was conducted this past spring by the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization […]

The Mitacs-Accelerate program was created in 1999 to connect graduate-level students with companies interested in having students work with them on business-related research projects. Jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments, last year it organized 1,750 internships, a number it hopes to bring to 2,000 this year. Students take up a business problem or research question […]

Thousands of international students who study at Canada’s universities and colleges each year arrive eager to integrate themselves into the country’s culture, but a majority still don’t, putting pressure on schools to provide more help for them to fit in. Some 58 per cent of international students in Canada report having very few or no […]

Montreal – NEOMED, an organization whose mission is to bridge between academic research and the pharmaceutical industry in the drug development field, and Mitacs, an organization that is developing the next generation of innovators in Canada, are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership. Under this agreement, NEOMED will benefit from the Mitacs suite of […]

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Four top university students from countries like India, China, Brazil and Mexico are working in research labs at the University of Lethbridge this summer during a three-month internship through a program called Globalink. Mariel Rodriguez, a student at UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has been in Lethbridge since May working in Claudia Gonzalez’ […]

Mitacs Globalink student Mariel Rodriguez featured on CTV Lethbridge, discussing her research project on how the human mind perceives the hand. Mitacs would like to thank the following government and international partners, in addition to our full and associate university partners, for their support of Globalink in 2013: Western Economic Diversification Canada, the Government of […]

Montreal, Quebec – July 30, 2013 – Mitacs and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) have signed an agreement to help bring industry and academia together to boost innovation in the region. Support from NRC-IRAP will enable Mitacs to provide more opportunities to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Quebec to […]

Mitacs Director International, Laura Wood, joins Mitacs Globalink interns Megha Tak, Mariana Guimaraes and Mariana Boeira to discuss their research projects and the Mitacs Globalink program on CTV’s Canada AM. Mitacs would like to thank the following government and international partners, in addition to our full and associate university partners, for their support of Globalink […]

Mitacs and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) have signed an agreement to help bring industry and academia together to boost innovation in the region. Support from NRC-IRAP will enable Mitacs to provide more opportunities to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Atlantic Canada to access university-based researchers to help […]

EDMONTON – Brazilian student Henrique Vieira has been in Edmonton for just a few months, but already he’s designed about 50 different storylines for an educational video game for high school students. Vieira is one of more than 250 undergraduate students coming to Canada from India, China, Brazil and Mexico as part of the Mitacs […]