Accelerate
The Accelerate program provides research-based internships that foster applied research collaboration and knowledge transfer between post-secondary students and postdoctoral fellows, industry, and academic researchers.
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Bringing innovation to life requires time, talent, and resources. Mitacs connects businesses with top research talent through collaborative fellowships and internships, providing funding and access to resource networks to help drive success.
Innovation Deployment
Where Canada’s innovation ecosystem accelerates productivity
These programs facilitate mutually beneficial partnerships between industry and academia, providing exciting opportunities for the tangible results of these collaborations to be deployed into the market.
By supporting companies with access to talent, technology, and strategic partnerships, Mitacs can help you solve real-world industry challenges, commercialize your research, compete on a global scale, and create economic value for Canada.
Accelerate Entrepreneur
Accelerate Entrepreneur is a flexible initiative that helps college, undergraduate, graduate students and postdoctoral entrepreneurs grow their startup, develop the research or technology at its core, and get to market faster.
Read MoreBusiness Strategy Internship
The Business Strategy Internship program supports innovation-driven projects, helping organizations enhance their business while providing interns with hands-on experiential learning.
Read MoreGlobalink Research Award
The Globalink Research Award fosters international research collaboration through two-way mobility, strengthening research networks between Canada and eligible countries while equipping interns with valuable global experience and cross-cultural insights.
Read MoreGlobalink Research Internship
The Globalink Research Internship program supports international undergraduate students from Mitacs eligible partner countries with a research work-integrated learning experience at a Canadian university.
Read MoreRISE-Globalink Research Internship
This competitive program enables undergraduate students at Canadian universities to collaborate with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for academic mobility to German universities and institutions.
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Elevate
This program provided fellows with direct experience within eligible businesses and provided partner organizations with expertise to address their pressing R&D challenges. Mitacs’s support for postdoctoral fellows continues through the Accelerate program with the addition of a higher award value as was previously provided in Elevate.
Read MoreCanadian Science Policy Fellowship
The Canadian Science Policy Fellowship places PhD holders in government offices for 12 months, applying their expertise to support evidence-informed policy while providing hosts with science-based insights and fostering fellows’ professional growth.
Read MoreMitacs Entrepreneur International
Entrepreneur International offers a travel grant to Canadian start-ups that are housed in an incubator or accelerator linked to a post-secondary institution, enabling them to connect with host incubators abroad to explore business-development opportunities in international markets.
Read MoreGlobalink Graduate Fellowship
The Globalink Graduate Fellowship was offered as a grant to students who had completed their Global Research Internship (GRI) and that had been accepted into an eligible graduate program in Canada.
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Mitacs has fostered thousands of successful collaborations between organizations and researchers.
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How Graphene is Making Ships More Sustainable
In an interview with Mitacs, Marciel Gaier, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Nova Scotia-based GIT Coatings, shares insights into his projects and how his company is shaping the Canadian marine industry.
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