Funding Opportunity: MITACS Special Discount Funding
MITACS is providing a limited special discount offer to maximize R&D with 2:1 Funding Leverage for the MITACS Accelerate funding stream. The MITACS Accelerate links students and postdocs with eligible industry partners through mutually beneficial, paid research internships (4-6 months per internship).
Applications must address one of the following themes:
- Agriculture, Agri-food & Aquaculture
- Digital- Artificial intelligence, Quantum, ICT
- Biomanufacturing, Biotechnology, and Life & Health Sciences
- Clean technology
Special Discount Enhanced Funding:
- $15,000 per internship unit (IU): $5,000 partner contribution + $10,000 Mitacs contribution; or
- $17,500 per internship unit (IU): $7,500 partner contribution + $10,000 Mitacs contribution
- Note: The partner contribution is subject to applicable taxes.
This special call is subject to the following conditions:
- Only available under the Accelerate program, (special discount funding is not available for other programs such as the Accelerate International, BSI program or Joint MITACS-NSERC / Joint MITACS-SSHRC funding streams)
- Offer is available for new submissions only.
- All applications must include named interns to be considered. Maximum of 6 (six) discounted internship units per named intern at the time of submission. Interns can have more than 6 internship units. However, any additional units beyond the first 6 will be at standard funding.
- Standard funding will apply for any unnamed internship units (To Be Determined: “TBD”). TBD internship units will not be eligible for this special offer. Once students are identified, they remain at standard funding.
- Total limit of 50 IUs per project (including discounted and standard funding internship units).
- Post-submission and in-project changes to internship dates and intern replacements will be allowed for the discounted and standard funding units. No additional internship units will be discounted following submission.
- Deadline to apply is February 9, 2024. Offer will end on February 9, 2024, or when MITACS has reached a total number of 3,000 internship units across all eligible sectors included in these special offers, whichever occurs first. Applications will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis.
- If your project is found to not meet the eligibility criteria for this special offer, Mitacs may be able to approve it under our standard funding model.
Key information:
- The application deadline is February 9, 2024, or while quantities last
- For information on how to apply, please visit the MITACS website.
- You may contact the Ana Boika (aboika@mitacs.ca) our MITACS Business Development Advisor for Carleton University to express interest
***The special discount will be popular. Please reach out to MITACS as early as possible to express interest and to submit your proposal by the February deadline.