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Fairchild TV – Globalink Research Interns discuss their research at York University

Mitacs Globalink interns Jiacheng Wu and Jie Shu discuss their research projects and the Mitacs Globalink program on Fairchild TV’s Leisure Talk. Mitacs would like to thank the following government and international partners, in addition to our full and associate university partners, for their support of Globalink in 2013: Western Economic Diversification Canada, the Government […]

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Mitacs receives support from the Government of Canada to boost innovation and economic development among SMEs in the province of Ontario

Mitacs has signed an agreement with the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) to help bring industry and academia together to boost innovation in the region. Support from NRC-IRAP will enable Mitacs to provide more opportunities to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ontario to access university-based researchers to help them […]

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Mitacs applauds Government of Canada for new support for technology commercialization and business growth in western Canada

Mitacs congratulates the Government of Canada and the Honourable Michelle Rempel, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, for launching the Western Innovation (WINN) Initiative. The new initiative will enable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to access funding to help them take a product from the R&D stage to market, from product testing and technology […]

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Mitacs thanks Minister Pierre Duchesne and the Government of Quebec for new funding to continue to prepare the next generation of talented researchers

Mitacs thanks Minister Duchesne and the Government of Quebec for a new $3 million investment that will allow graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to apply their expertise to business-related research challenges. This new funding will enable the FRQ – Mitacs Accelerate Quebec program to offer 600 additional research internships in Quebec for the year 2013-2014. […]

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Nature Jobs – Postdocs dissatisfied

Nearly one-third of postdocs in Canada are ambivalent about or dissatisfied with their experience, a survey finds. For The 2013 Canadian Postdoc Survey, the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Vancouver-based non-profit research organization Mitacs polled 1,830 postdocs at 130 institutions in academia, government and the private sector. Nearly half were dissatisfied with benefits such as […]

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Science Careers – Canada’s Postdocs Happy With Research, Dissatisfied With Pay and Status

“Administrative ambiguity,” “low compensation and benefits,” and “insufficient training” are the three biggest problems facing Canada’s postdocs, according to a report issued on 2 October by the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Mitacs, a nonprofit training and research organization. Presenting answers given by 1830 postdocs at 130 institutions including “universities, hospitals, government laboratories, and […]

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University Affairs: Low pay and ambiguous job status frustrates Canadian postdocs

A new survey of postdoctoral scholars in Canada paints a portrait of early career researchers who are generally satisfied with their research environment but frustrated by their ambiguous employment status, poor compensation and inadequate training. The online survey (PDF), released on Oct. 2, was conducted this past spring by the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization […]

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University Affairs – Mitacs paid research internships are still among the best

The Mitacs-Accelerate program was created in 1999 to connect graduate-level students with companies interested in having students work with them on business-related research projects. Jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments, last year it organized 1,750 internships, a number it hopes to bring to 2,000 this year. Students take up a business problem or research question […]

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NEOMED and Mitacs Become Strategic Partners

Montreal – NEOMED, an organization whose mission is to bridge between academic research and the pharmaceutical industry in the drug development field, and Mitacs, an organization that is developing the next generation of innovators in Canada, are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership. Under this agreement, NEOMED will benefit from the Mitacs suite of […]

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