Accelerate - Mitacs
Accelerate supports students, postdoctoral fellows, and academic partners through collaborative research internships that generate new knowledge and develop applied solutions for Canadian organizations.
Funder: Mitacs
Due Dates: Contact a Mitacs Advisor about application timing
Funding Amounts: CAD $15,000 per four- or six-month internship unit; CAD $20,000 postdoctoral option; projects scale up to five years
Summary: Accelerate funds collaborative research internships connecting academic researchers and Canadian partner organizations to develop new knowledge and applied solutions.
Key Information: Each project requires an eligible intern, academic supervisor, and Canadian partner organization providing a financial contribution.
Description
Mitacs Accelerate supports research-based internships that connect post-secondary students, postdoctoral fellows, and academic supervisors with partner organizations. Interns work collaboratively on research challenges, helping partners develop solutions, explore markets, commercialize breakthroughs, and expand research and development capacity. The program combines applied research and knowledge transfer with hands-on experience, professional networking, and academic–industry partnership development.
Projects must generate new knowledge relevant to both the academic community and the partner organization. Consulting and purely development-based projects are not supported. Flexible internship units allow collaborations to address focused challenges or scale into longer-term research programs. Partner interaction may be in person, virtual, or hybrid, with substantive supervision and meaningful integration into the partner’s activities.
