Mitacs Plus is our new self-serve application portal designed to enhance how you access funding, manage research projects, and collaborate with partners.
Open by invitation only at this time to applicants from select institutions, this platform offers a streamlined digital
experience that puts more control in your hands, helping track submissions in real time, manage changes, and navigate the process with greater autonomy.
New features includeManage applications, view real-time status updates, and request changes — all in one place.
Administrators can review, sign off, and monitor project progress with full visibility.
A modern, intuitive platform, designed to reduce complexity and improve collaboration.
Mitacs Plus is more than a portal — it’s part of our commitment to building a seamless, scalable innovation ecosystem across Canada!
Mitacs Plus is currently being piloted by invitation only at select institutions. At this stage, new Mitacs Accelerate applications must meet the following criteria to be able to go through the portal:
Mitacs Plus will eventually expand to include all of our funding streams and program offerings.
As always, all applicants must meet the basic eligibility criteria for the Mitacs Accelerate program to be eligible for funding. Please review this criteria on our primary program page for Mitacs Accelerate.
As an ORS representative, you will receive an invitation by email to create your Mitacs Plus account. Please click the registration link in the email, which will lead you to the Mitacs Plus page. Follow the instructions to create your new account.
Please fill in all required fields in your profile, including your name, contact information, and preferred communication language.
As an ORS representative, you will see that your contact type is pre-set as “ORS Representative.” This status will give you the ability to view all projects in development, submitted, and approved at your academic institution.
Clicking the “My Applications” section will take you to the dashboard. Here, you will see a list of all projects at your institution. Note that you can filter to only view projects at the Awards stage or projects “In Progress” using the buttons above the program list.
To view a specific project, click the three dots under the “Actions” column.
To view specific details about the project, click on “View Details”. Here, you can view general details, the project’s status, award details, messages, and application documents.
Once applicants have completed the application form, the ORS representative will receive an email notification that an application is ready for their review. This ORS sign off is required to complete the submission of the application to Mitacs.
Applications will be automatically submitted for review once all required signatures are added.
By clicking on the “My Applications” tab, you will see a list of all applications created by researchers at your institution. Under the “Status” column, you will see the status of each project.
For more information about any individual project, you can click the three dots under the “Actions” column and view the application details.
Your Mitacs Advisor will provide you with a link to the platform if your project is deemed to meet the platform’s eligibility criteria. Upon opening the portal, you will be prompted to sign in or create an account.
Upon creating an account, you will be asked to verify your email address and then sign-in. Then, you will be free to explore the portal, complete your profile, and start an application.
Please fill in all required fields in your profile, including your name, contact information, organization, and preferred communication language.
Note that to fill in your organization’s name, you will be prompted to look your organization up in our database. If your organization is new to Mitacs, you can create a new record to capture your organization’s details. If your organization operates nationally and has an English and a French name, please search for your organization’s name in English and in French before creating a new account, as this will help to prevent duplicated information.
The application screen is divided into several sections. Complete each section and click “Next” to proceed to the next one.
You can use the “Next” and “Previous” buttons at the bottom of the screen to navigate between sections.
You can add contributors to your application on the “Project Members” tab of the application form. There are three roles you can select for project members:
The Grant Writer role can be assigned to any student/postdoctoral researcher, trainee, or administrative contact assisting with drafting an application.
As our new process does not name interns to projects until after submission, if you have a prospective intern helping you draft the application, they should be added as a “Grant Writer.”
They can then be added as an “Intern” after submission.
To add new project members, please:
This will send an invite email to the new project member. They will need to create an account (if they don’t already have one), set up their profile (if applicable),
and they will be granted access to your application.
Please note your Office of Research Services contact(s) will automatically be added to your application.
The bulk of the application content is submitted via the upload of a Word document containing our application template.
This document can be worked on collaboratively by your team and reviewed by your Mitacs Advisor prior to its upload.
Application sign-off is the final step in your application, where all core participants (the academic supervisor, the partner organization, and the institution’s Office of Research Services) will be asked to sign off that they approve of the application contents and that they agree to Mitacs’s Terms and Conditions in submitting the award.
Upon entering the application sign-off stage, the application will be locked, so that no content can be altered after a party has approved it. If you wish to make changes to an application after entering the application sign-off stage, please email [email protected] and our team will unlock it for you.
Please note that if reopened, all parties will need to re-sign the updated application before it can be submitted.
Once you have completed your application form, the ORS (or equivalent) at the respective postsecondary institution(s) of the academic supervisor(s) will receive a notification that an application is ready for their review. The ORS sign off is required to submit your application to Mitacs. Please note that academic institutions may have their own internal approval requirements, timelines and processes. Please contact your institution’s ORS for further information.
Your application will be automatically submitted once all required signatures are added.
By clicking on the “My Applications” tab, you will see a list of all applications created by researchers at your institution. Under the “Status” column, you will see the status of each project.
For more information about any individual project, click the three dots under the “Actions” column to view the application details.
To request any changes to your project after submission, please email our team at [email protected].
This portal is currently being piloted with select institutions as we continue to refine and improve the Mitacs Plus experience. Regular updates will be released expanding on the portal’s functionality in the months following its launch.
We thank you for taking part in this pilot, helping us collect critical data to ensure a smooth, cohesive experience for all our future applicants.
All applicants will be receiving a survey on their Mitacs Plus experience upon application submission. We would greatly appreciate any insights you can provide to help us continue to improve and refine our system.
This new self-serve application portal boasts many exciting features, including:
Mitacs Plus has been designed with the goal of becoming a centralized hub for all Mitacs offerings. To begin, it will process applications for our Mitacs Accelerate program for a small pilot cohort, and will eventually expand to include all of our funding streams and all our partner organizations and academic institutions.
At launch, only new applications will be visible on the Mitacs Plus platform. Applications and projects submitted prior to the launch of Mitacs Plus will be managed the same way as before.
If you have already started an application on our old systems, you will be able to continue until submission for a limited time during the transition. The deadline to move all applications to the new platform will be communicated to you through the old platform and/or your Mitacs Advisor.
To begin, Mitacs Plus will only be able to accommodate applications meeting the following criteria:
Mitacs Plus will eventually expand to include all of our funding streams and program offerings.
Offering a seamless, high-quality experience to both our French and English users is a top priority for Mitacs. Our team is working diligently to ensure all fields display appropriately in French, and the French version of our portal will be live prior to our official launch to all users.
Mitacs is piloting its new platform with a small number of post-secondary institutions to ensure it meets the needs of our users. A variety of factors were considered in selecting this initial cohort to ensure we have a breadth of institutional sizes, locations, regions, languages, and participant types.
Based on this initial feedback, Mitacs will then expand its invitation to a broader group. All institutions will eventually be invited to the platform.
A total of fifteen institutions across Canada are being invited to test our new Mitacs Plus platform starting this spring. Based on the initial feedback of this cohort, the platform will be enhanced and expanded to accommodate a greater volume.
Mitacs is launching its new Mitacs Plus portal incrementally over the course of several months.
Our primary contact for your institution will receive an invitation to the portal as soon as we are ready for them.
Applicants should follow the guidance of their Mitacs Advisors, who will alert those with eligible applications of the ability to submit on the new portal once it is available.
Please feel free to reach out to [email protected] if you have any issues or questions regarding the new portal upon launch. We are here to support you however we can.
An academic supervisor is one of the primary applicants on a Mitacs application. They contribute their expertise to addressing the research challenge and provide mentorship and support to the interns. They directly oversee the work of the intern(s) on a Mitacs project in collaboration with the project’s partner organization. A university academic supervisor must be a faculty member at an eligible Canadian academic institution who is eligible to hold Tri-Agency funds and will be responsible for managing the Mitacs program funds. College academic supervisors may be faculty or designated staff, and at colleges, the research office manages the program funds.
A partner organization is one of the primary applicants on a Mitacs application. They are a non-academic organization and must be a for-profit or eligible not-for-profit corporation, municipality, or hospital based in Canada. This partner will host the project intern(s) in-person or virtually over the course of the project and co-supervise their work alongside the intern’s academic supervisor.
In applying for a Mitacs internship, the named partner organization also commits to financially contributing to the project. These funds must be received by Mitacs before a project can begin.
For-profit businesses and not-for-profit corporations operating outside of Canada may be eligible as additional partners on projects with a Canadian partner organization. You can verify a partner organization’s eligibility with your Mitacs Advisor.
An intern is a student, recent graduate or postdoctoral researcher at a Canadian postsecondary institution who undertakes a Mitacs internship under the supervision of an academic supervisor with an eligible partner organization.
This intern will carry out the project objectives in four-month increments (or internship units).
Interns are named to projects after an application has been submitted through Mitacs Plus and must be vetted for eligibility before they can begin work on a project. All Mitacs interns receive a stipend as determined by the project budget, which is administered by their academic institution.
The Grant Writer role can be assigned to a student/postdoctoral researcher, trainee or administrative contact assisting with drafting an application. Since interns are not added to projects until after submission, if you have a prospective intern helping you with drafting the application, they will need to be added as a “Grant Writer” and can then be added as an “Intern” after submission.
It is common for an academic supervisor not to be certain of which interns will undertake the internship at the time of application. To standardize our process for all applicants, Mitacs has streamlined its application so that interns are only required to be named after submission of the application.
An intern can be added to the project after submission. All interns must be named and vetted for eligibility before their internship can be approved and before they can begin working on the project.
Interns are at the core of Mitacs programming, and we recognize they are often active contributors to the development of research proposals. If you have an intern contributing to the application, you can add them to the Project Members tab as a Grant Writer. This status will enable them to assist in the drafting of the application.
To add an assistant or team member to help with drafting your project application, please follow the steps outlined below. Please note that even if you already have an intern in mind and they will be helping you draft the application, the new Mitacs process only requires interns to be named after submission. If your intended intern will help you draft the application, please assign them as a ‘Grant Writer’ below and you can then add them as an ‘Intern’ after submission.
This will send an invite email to the new project member; they will need to create an account (if they don’t already have one), set up their profile (if applicable), and they will be granted access to your application.
Research costs are the direct costs of the project beyond the intern stipend amount. Please refer to Mitacs’s Use of Funds policy for details, and note that research costs cannot be paid to the academic institution or partner organization. This amount cannot exceed $5,000 per 4-month internship.
Once you have completed your application form, the ORS (or equivalent) at the respective postsecondary institution(s) of the academic supervisor(s) will receive a notification that an application is ready for their review. The ORS sign off is required to submit your application to Mitacs. Please note that academic institutions may have their own internal approval requirements, timelines and processes. Please contact your institution’s ORS for further information.
Mitacs’s standard funding model is $15,000 per internship unit of 4-month/6-month duration. Postdoctoral researchers are eligible for $20,000 per internship.
If you believe you are eligible for an alternate funding model, please contact us by clicking on the ‘Contact Us’ button and providing us with details. If you are eligible, we will update your application accordingly.
Yes, we recommend having your Mitacs Advisor review your application to help ensure completeness and eligibility. Please share your drafted proposal with your Mitacs Advisor for feedback prior to uploading it to the portal.
Once your application has been submitted, it will appear on your dashboard where you can access an overview of your applications. To navigate to the page:
To view your project details, please navigate to your application’s dedicated page:
This will open an overview of your project, including its status, associated files, and any messages received from our Service Delivery team.
You can view any documents associated with your project by navigating to your project page on our portal. To do this:
If you want to see a copy of your full submitted application, click on the blue “Actions” button in the upper right side of the page, then select “View Application”.
To change the start date of one or more units on your application, please email our [email protected] inbox detailing the request.
Please be sure to include:
Please ensure you CC the relevant participants so we can confirm that all parties are aware of and consent to the change.
To update the invoicing contact on a project, please email our [email protected] inbox detailing the request.
Please be sure to include:
If you wish for a different organization than the one named on the project to be invoiced, a cash flow statement may be required. Please let us know if this is the case and ensure you CC the relevant participants so we can confirm that all parties consent to the change.
To change the intern of one or more units on your application, please email our [email protected] inbox detailing the request.
Please be sure to include:
Please ensure you CC the relevant participants so we can confirm that all parties are aware of and consent to the change.
If a key participant is missing, such as the former intern, we may need to contact them about the request before we can process the change.
To update the budget and provide a top-up, please email our [email protected] inbox detailing the request.
Please be sure to include:
A member of our team will get back to you confirming the details.
To request a project extension, please email our [email protected] inbox detailing the request.
Please be sure to include:
Please ensure you CC the relevant participants so we can confirm that all parties agree to the extension.
If you have never logged in to Mitacs Plus before, you will need to create a new account. To do so:
If you already have an account but are having trouble logging in, please verify that you are using the correct email address and password. If your password is not being accepted, please click the “Forgot your password?” button to reset it.
If you are still having trouble, please reach out to our team at [email protected] for further assistance.
If you did not receive a confirmation email after registering on Mitacs Plus, please follow the steps below:
If you have been invited to collaborate on a project but cannot see it on your dashboard, please: