Mitacs Accelerate Internship Units 2025/26

The Accelerate International stream has been discontinued as of October 31, 2024.

Mitacs has implemented changes to the Accelerate program to provide greater flexibility for international collaborations.

Eligible Mitacs Accelerate proposals now include:

1. One or more Canadian partner organizations
   • For-profit or not-for profit corporations, hospitals or municipalities
2. One or more Canadian postsecondary institutions
   • Interns must be students, postdoctoral fellows or recent graduates with status at a Canadian postsecondary institution. Visiting research students are eligible to participate in Accelerate projects provided they have status at a Canadian postsecondary institution.
   • All interns eligible to participate in Accelerate (e.g., certificate/diploma students, college students) can also participate in projects with international elements.
   • International travel may be limited by circumstances external to Mitacs for some individuals (e.g., recent graduates may not be able to travel internationally for the project due to visa requirements for non-students).
3. Optional: Add an international parnter
   • International for-profit and not-for-profit corporations may be added as an additional partner organization in an Accelerate proposal submission. International partners are eligible to financially support the project, provided the Canadian partner organization also has meaningful interaction with the intern(s) and benefits from the project.
   • Virtual interaction with international partner organizations is permitted; no international travel is required.
   • For interns, no minimum or maximum limitations will be set on the duration of international travel. Meaningful interaction with the Canadian partner organization and postsecondary institution is still required. Interns who travel must follow their postsecondary institution’s policies for international travel.

The Elevate stream has been discontinued as of March 31, 2025.

Going forward, the Elevate program has been replaced with a $20k per internship unit ($60k per year) postdoctoral funding model within the current Mitacs Accelerate program.

In order to be eligible to the Indigenous Pathways offering, one of the following requirements must be met:

• The student assigned to the project must be a self-identifying Indigenous person (First Nations, Métis or Inuit).
• The partner organization must be a for-profit organization with self-identifying Indigenous persons (First Nations, Métis or Inuit) who hold 50% or greater ownership shares.
• The partner organization must be a not-for-profit organization with board membership consisting of 50% or more self-identifying Indigenous Persons (First Nations, Métis or Inuit).

Accelerate research projects in the field of quantum science and technology that seek to predict and explain the behaviour of atoms and molecules, involving the manipulation and control of systems at the atomic and subatomic levels.

Quantum science and technology projects broadly refer to the study of one or more of the following:

• Quantum communications: Networks that utilize the laws of physics to protect and share data.
• Quantum computers: A type of computer that exploits the behaviour of microscopic elements the size of atoms to perform calculations.
• Quantum materials: Materials with unusual magnetic and electrical properties resulting from quantum effects.
• Quantum sensors: Devices that use quantum science to perform measurements with high sensitivity and accuracy.
• Quantum software: Software and algorithms that run on quantum computers, and enable the operation and design of quantum computers and/or development and optimization of quantum applications.