Mitacs
Catalyzing Innovation Across Canada
Mitacs is a national independent non-profit funding agency that powers research & development creation by connecting private sector with the best post-secondary institutions to solve organizational challenges — in Canada and internationally. For more than 20 years, Mitacs has funded cutting-edge research, created job opportunities for graduate students and helped companies reach their goals, achieving results that have bolstered the Canadian economy and impact.
They act as a catalyzing force in the Canadian innovation ecosystem, providing matching funding for projects and connecting highly trained researchers with the businesses, not-for-profits and municipalities that need them. Mitacs is passionate about developing the next generation of researchers helping to fuel Canada’s knowledge-based economy, and provides guidance, training, and support for all academic disciplines and industry sectors.
Mitacs Program Information
Accelerate
Supports collaborative research projects between eligible partner organizations, a faculty member, and a student, postdoctoral, or recent graduate intern.
- Projects tackle research problems from any discipline or sector
- Results can be published, or included in a thesis (with partner approval)
- Flexible project scale beginning at 4 months
- Can be used by eligible student entrepreneurs to fund research at their own company
- Please Note! MITACS has yet to confirm its funding agreements with the Government of Alberta, resulting in severely limited funding for the Accelerate Program in the 2025-2026 fiscal year. Projects will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis and must have a limited scope of 10 Internship Units (IUs) or less per project. The University of Lethbridge will not have a specific IU allocation cap but will also not have ready access to information about remaining IUs in the pool.
Business Strategy Internship (BSI)
Supports collaborative innovation projects with eligible partner organizations, a faculty member, and a student, postdoctoral, or recent graduate intern.
- Projects must improve the products, processes, or services of the partner organization
- Open to all disciplines and sectors
- Flexible project scale beginning at 4 months
- Projects limited to 4 Internship Units
Globalink Programs
Explore fully funded international collaboration opportunities for students of any level or discipline.
- Globalink Research Award
- Globalink Research Internships
- Globalink Graduate Fellowship
Elevate
As of April 1, 2025, the Elevate program is being folded into the Accelerate Program.
- Collaborative projects involving a Post-Doctoral Fellow, faculty member, and eligible partner
- Partner covers part of the internship, typically 50%
- Researchers seeking to leverage funding for PDFs are eligible for special Internship Unit funding, which offers $20,000 per unit, up to three units per year, for up to three years. As this is now part of the Accelerate program, funding is limited in the 2025/2026 fiscal year.
Open Projects Page
Apply today to open paid research position postings across Canada in any discipline. Standard Accelerate eligibility criteria apply.