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As COVID-19 brings unprecedented challenges, special funding drives R&D Vancouver, BC — Canada’s more than 1.2 million small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) contribute substantially to our country’s economic growth, innovation, and job creation. Defined as companies with fewer than 500 employees, 99.8 percent of Canada’s employers are SMEs. Generating approximately 54.9 percent of Canada’s GDP […]

Mitacs and Mental Health Research Canada offer internships to improve mental health services Toronto, ON — Mitacs and Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) are partnering to support the development of the next generation of mental health researchers. The collaboration will provide funding for master’s students from eligible institutions across Canada to engage in innovative and […]

By Derrick Penner Vancouver startup has devised a system that marries artificial intelligence and big data with the age-old craft of wine making that they bet will save British Columbia’s wineries thousands of hours of labour and millions of dollars. Read here…

Research innovations can come more quickly thanks to support for college highly qualified personnel Vancouver, BC — Mitacs is partnering with Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through the Tri-Agency College and Community Innovation (CCI) program to expedite applied, research-based solutions that leverage the highly qualified personnel (HQP) — students and/or postdoctoral […]

Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families have faced unprecedented challenges in accessing supports from a home base. Navigating this new normal has called for new ways of delivering services and supports. To fast-track solutions, Mitacs and Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN) […]

Mitacs and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) pair graduate students to Canadian companies Vancouver, BC — Representatives of India and Canada expanded their existing partnership today that extends student mobility and enhances research collaborations between academia and industry. The new agreement between All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Mitacs enables 30 […]

Mitacs and SFU’s Invention to Innovation (i2I) helps graduate researchers across Canada develop an entrepreneurial mindset and become champions of innovation Vancouver, BC — Mitacs and the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University (SFU Beedie) have renewed a partnership to offer the Invention to Innovation (i2I) program for graduate students. Over seven months, […]

Memorandums of understanding support research collaboration and mobility Vancouver, BC — Canadian and Colombian higher education organizations signed two important agreements today which will improve student mobility and heighten research collaboration between the two countries. Higher education and research partnerships are a critical part of the Canada-Colombia bilateral relationship. The agreement between Universities Canada and […]

Sheamus MacDonald has been virtually presented with the Mitacs Global Impact Entrepreneur Award A local entrepreneur has received a prestigious award. Sheamus MacDonald has been presented with the Mitacs Global Impact Entrepreneur Award. His start-up, Dartmouth-based Sedna Technologies, has launched a high-tech mobile system that aims to reduce seafood waste by following the catch through all […]

Miayan Yeremi co-founded BarrelWise Technologies to uncork some age-old problems While doing his PhD in mechanical engineering at UBC, Miayan Yeremi was taught that for the best entrepreneurial results, you must seek to solve a problem in an industry rather than create something to chase an issue that might not actually exist. Seems simple, of course, […]

By Adam Kovac MONTREAL — A Montreal scientist’s invention is gaining attention for the role it could play in the fight against COVID-19. Read here…

By John Hepburn When innovation stops or stalls and graduates from advanced degrees lack opportunities to join industry and drive economic growth, prospects for those businesses and Canadians’ quality of life are at risk. Read more…