Administered by Mitacs
Collaborative research internships pairing graduate students with companies — $15K per 4-month unit, 50% cost share.
Mitacs Accelerate places graduate students and postdocs in Canadian companies to work on research-focused projects. Each 4-month internship unit costs $15,000, of which the company pays $7,500 (50%); Mitacs covers the remainder.
The total program pool, per-organization max, and what your contribution has to be.
This program does not publish an aggregate annual funding pool.
Matching contribution required from your organization (50%).
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Find your matches →Excellent access ramp to talent + R&D funding at low cost. The catch is that the project has to be genuinely research-focused (novel investigation, not routine engineering) and needs a supervising professor to co-lead. If you can find both, this is the fastest small-grant approval in the federal system.
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