Mitacs Accelerate
Mitacs · R&D internship subsidy
$11KC$15,000 research award per 4–6 month internship for a C$7,500 partner contribution (Mitacs matches 1:1); postdoc model C$20,000 for C$10,000
Co-funded research internships that place Canadian graduate students/postdocs on a company's R&D project, halving the cost.
Key terms
- Partner (company) contributes from C$7,500 per internship unit
- Intern must be a registered student/postdoc at a Canadian institution with an academic supervisor
- Intern must receive at least C$10,000 stipend/salary from the award
- Applications prepared with the academic supervisor and submitted via a Mitacs Advisor
Eligibility
- Where
- Canada
- Stages
- pre-seed, seed, series-a, growth
- Needs VC/accelerator backing
- No
- Needs partner referral code
- No
- Must be incorporated
- Yes
- AI focus required
- No
- Students / researchers
- Not eligible
- Nonprofits
- Eligible
Also required
- Recent graduates not currently supported on the portal
- Not combinable as a joint application with NSERC programs
How to apply
Find an academic supervisor/student, co-write the proposal, and submit through your local Mitacs Advisor.
- Benefit
- cash
- Equity-free
- Yes
- Decision time
- —
- Credit validity
- —
- Deadline
- Rolling
- Status
- Open
Verified 2026-10-22 · source