Students and postdoctoral fellows may be nominated for a Mitacs Award in one of the following ways:

• By the academic supervisor who supervised their work during the Mitacs-funded project; 
• By the industry supervisor who supervised their work during the Mitacs-funded project (for Accelerate, or Elevate, or Business Strategy Internship program nominees). 

Professors may be nominated for the Mitacs Award for Exceptional Leadership by : 

• The industrial or not-for-profit partner; 
• The academic co-investigators;
• The interns involved in the Mitacs-funded project on which they worked together. 

Indigenous students or postdoctoral fellows who are nominated under the “Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation — Indigenous” category will be asked to provide one of the following :

• a letter of support from a member of an Indigenous community
• a letter of support from an Indigenous organization which speaks to the impacts of the nominee’s achievements
• a copy of the nominee’s status card, Metis card, Inuit identity card, or citizenship card

It is expected that several individuals may contribute to the preparation of a nomination submission for an academic supervisor. In this case, one person should act as the lead in the process so that a single nomination is submitted on behalf of the professor. 

Evaluation procedure

An internal and external review committee will review all nominations and make recommendations for the best candidates for each award. Mitacs's CEO will review the recommendations and make the final decisions.

Nominations for the 2022 Mitacs Awards are now closed. 

For questions regarding nominations, please contact events@mitacs.ca.