LET YOUR BRIGHTEST STUDENTS SHINE

AT MITACS WE WORK WITH YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS TO CREATE INNOVATION COLLBORATIONS!

Imagine the opportunities with a $10K or $15K award!

Applications are accepted at any time for multiple projects and students

$10K or $15K for a four-month project. No academic institution funding required

Open to all disciplines

YOUR KEY BENEFITS

With 14,000 collaborations and 80 innovation project experts embedded at post-secondary institutions across the country, Mitacs is a leader in Canada’s innovation ecosystem.

So, no matter the field or discipline, we can help fund projects that enable your students to gain real-world experience — and contribute to Canada’s role as an innovation leader  

• Provide broadened training and career opportunities for students by expanding their network with faculty, businesses, and community
• Access to funding support for your students
  
• Expand your networks > leading to potential consulting/research opportunities
• Gain market intel to enhance your research projects
• Strengthen academic/industry innovation ecosystem
• Attract high-calibre students to your programs/discipline

WHO WE ARE

HOW WE HELP YOU ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS

SUCCESS STORIES

Across Canada, businesses and organizations that grappled with the impact of COVID-19 got support from an unexpected resource: top local business students.

An award from Mitacs helped a Liidlii Kue First Nation art student land an internship with one of Canada’s leading animation houses. Lia Fabre-Dimsdale helped animate the award-winning children’s cartoon Molly of Denali.

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW  

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As companies and not-for-profit organizations ramp up their business operations, they face challenges – challenges your students can help solve.  
 
The $10K or $15K award  enables the brightest students – from college students to undergrads, grads, postdocs, and even recent grads – to undertake a collaborative internship with businesses or eligible not-for-profit organizations (NFPs). The potential is limitless, whether it’s streamlining processes, commercializing your technology, developing new business models, improving public services or addressing social or environmental issues – students apply their technical expertise to business challenges to support an organization's innovation activities. The award is open to students across all disciplines, from law to STEM to social sciences and humanities. 

• $10K for a four-month project: the partner pays $5K and no college or university funds are required 
  
• $15K for a four-month project: partner pays only $7.5K and no college or university funds are required. At $15K, the participants have the option of using up to $5K for specified project costs or to top up the intern stipend. 
• Open to college, undergrad and grad students, postdocs, and recent grads
• Students and faculty can apply at any time for multiple projects
• Open to all disciplines

Awards let your students put their knowledge into practice

So, what are you waiting for?

"From an immigrant’s perspective who is very new in this market, there is nothing more helpful than getting a locally trained graduate or student to provide support in business strategy. As a new entrepreneur myself, I lack operational knowledge, specifically in expanding and scaling profitability. I may be able to start an innovative venture on my own, but tapping into Mitacs’s BSI program is a gateway to bigger possibilities and opportunities."

Lian Delos Reyes

Founder, Milksta Inc.