Vancouver, BC — Mitacs, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to innovation, warmly welcomes Andrew Fursman, CEO of 1QBit, as Chair of the newly formed Mitacs Industry Council.   As Co-founder and CEO of 1QBit, Fursman leads the technology company that partners with Fortune 500 clients and top hardware providers to solve problems in the areas of optimization, simulation, and machine learning. In seven years, the company has grown from a four-person start-up to […]

Vancouver, BC — Mitacs, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to innovation, warmly welcomes Carol Anne Hilton to its Board of Directors. Mitacs’s Board of Directors oversees its organizational mandate in fostering innovation and growth through partnerships with Canadian post-secondary institutions and companies. Hilton is the CEO and Founder of Indigenomics Institute, an Indigenous economic advisory […]

First Mitacs–The Hong Kong Polytechnic University collaboration creates 60 research internships in Canada Vancouver, BC — Mitacs and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have signed an agreement that creates research exchange opportunities in Canadian universities for 60 senior undergraduate students. The partnership supports Mitacs’s commitment to foster international connections, which enhance research quality, create training opportunities, and build knowledge networks. Starting in the summer of 2022 through 2024, up to 20 PolyU students will have the opportunity to join the annual cohort […]

Research innovations can advance more quickly thanks to support for highly qualified personnel at Canada’s universities Ottawa, ON — NSERC and Mitacs are pleased to build on the success of their existing partnership with a new joint initiative that will support the R&D efforts of Canadian university researchers and their partners, while supporting highly qualified personnel […]

College-level Research Internship Award aims to fund 90 projects in natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering; applications due on May 3, 2021 Montréal, April 1, 2021 — For the second year, CEGEP and college students will have the opportunity to undertake paid internships with post-secondary institutions in Quebec. Created by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – […]

For the first time, Mitacs and the Council for Higher Education of Israel collaborate to create research opportunities for PhD students and postdocs Vancouver, BC — Mitacs and the Council for Higher Education of Israel (CHE) signed an agreement that creates international mobility opportunities for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows from Canada and Israel. This is […]

Initial research project awarded to CMC Microsystems, ETH Zürich, and Polytechnique Montréal will be presented on March 18 via OpenHW TV webinar. Register at https://bit.ly/3dMIay3 Ottawa, ON — Mitacs and OpenHW Group are pleased to announce OpenHW Accelerate, a $22.5M multi-year, co-funded research program, the world’s first open-source hardware research program of its kind. OpenHW […]

Thousands of paid internships will help build highly skilled workforce and prepare people for in-demand jobs Toronto, ON — The Ontario government is providing $39.5 million to help Mitacs — an organization that builds partnerships between post-secondary talent and industry — create up to 8,000 paid innovative internships and upskilling opportunities for post-secondary students, post-doctoral […]

Thanks to an injection of government funding, 5,000 new internships mean opportunities for students and pivots for companies during COVID-19 Following the federal government’s investment of $40M to create 5,000 new internships, Mitacs is pleased to report that all of the work-integrated learning opportunities stipulated in the agreement have been generated. The purpose of the […]

Montréal, QC — The Fonds de recherche du Québec — Société et culture (FRQSC) and Mitacs are joining forces to advance bilateral research exchange by deploying the Accelerate program, which will support research internships in five areas: social sciences and humanities, education, management, arts, and literature. Up to 65 grants of $15,000 will be offered to […]

TORONTO, Jan. 18, 2021/CNW/ – Scotiabank today announced the launch of the Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund in collaboration with Mitacs, a Canadian not-for-profit organization that operates research and training programs in partnership with academia, private industry and government. Over the next three years, the Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund will aim to increase the […]

Scholarship established in honour of colleague Forough Khadem Winnipeg, MB — Today marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic death of 176 people aboard Flight PS752 — among them many Canadian-Iranian researchers returning from Tehran, including renowned scientist Forough Khadem, PhD, a Mitacs employee, colleague, and friend to many. Forough came to Canada from Iran originally to […]