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Solve R&D challenges with Canada’s top talent, leverage your funding, and gain one-to-one support from Mitacs.
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Indigenous Pathways
Like companies everywhere, Indigenous-owned businesses and organizations need to innovate in order to grow and achieve their strategic goals. But the tools you need to do that require talent, time, and budget.
Through our Indigenous Pathways initiative, we help you find top talent and co-invest in collaborative research and development (R&D) projects.
Projects are a minimum of four months in duration — they can be longer — and now your contribution is only 25% of the cost of projects that have an intern who is Indigenous.
Your key benefits
Professors
Build new research partnerships, collaborate with top-ranked students, and apply any time for funding support.
Students
Discover job opportunities in your field, grow your professional network, receive training and funding.
Your project is co-funded; we fund up to 75% of the cost
Your R&D project can be scalable and multidisciplinary
You are matched with the right talent and expertise
You gain access to our extensive global networks
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We fund up to 75% of your project — a minimum of four months in duration.
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If your project is bigger and requires more than four months, your investment remains at 25% of the cost.
Eligibility
In order to participate, one of the following requirements must be met:
- 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 greater self-identifying Indigenous Persons (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit)
- The partner organization must be an Indigenous Government or Indigenous Government owned entity (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit).
- The student assigned to the project must be a self-identifying Indigenous person (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit)
Read our Indigenous Research and Innovation Policy
Mitacs is committed to supporting research projects that have the potential to respond directly to the needs and priorities of Indigenous communities by making meaningful contributions in several key areas (e.g. reconciliation, public health, environmental sustainability, etc.).
Indigenous Peoples are colleagues and rights holders in such projects, and Mitacs encourages both Indigenous-led research and Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaboration on innovative proposals concerning these subjects.
What does Indigenous innovation look like?
Mitacs has fostered thousands of successful collaborations between organizations and researchers.
Partnerships
Mitacs is committed to supporting Indigenous communities and improving access to our programs.
We are a Seed Sponsor for the Pow Wow Pitch, North America’s premier pitch competition for emerging Indigenous entrepreneurs.
Founded by local Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg entrepreneur Sunshine Tenasco, the Pow Wow Pitch provides free resources, live training, and mentorship opportunities through the Indigenous Startup Program.
Check out episode 2 of The Edge where we explore female entrepreneurship in Canada with Sunshine Tenasco.
Discover our Inclusive Innovation Action Plan
Our Inclusive Innovation Action Plan (IIAP) aims to address innovation gaps faced by all equity-deserving communities including Indigenous Peoples, Women and gender diverse individual, Racialized groups; Persons living with disabilities, and LGBTQ2+ communities.
This comprehensive Action Plan is available for download in PDF format. File size (5.5 MB).
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Mitacs is funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, Innovation PEI, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan, and the Government of Yukon.