Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship

The Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship provides a long-term funding and internship option for master’s and doctoral students. Recipients can also access professional development training that helps them ensure project success and gain in-demand career skills.

Mitacs Accelerate is a graduate research internship program which connects graduate students and post-docs in any discipline at Canadian Universities with companies through short- to medium-term research projects which address a company need.

During a Mitacs Accelerate internship, the intern spends approximately half of his or her time onsite with the company, collecting data and interacting with staff; the balance of time is spent at the university, developing innovative approaches to solving the research challenge in collaboration with faculty and fellow students. The program provides grad students and postdocs with the unique opportunity to apply their research to an issue faced by a company while making vital connections with industry. Faculty members benefit also from the program as it can be a stepping stone to establishing a greater collaboration with a private sector partner.

How to apply

Interested applicants can apply for the Accelerate Fellowship at any time. All other Accelerate program guidelines apply.

These blogs are designed to help RRU students:

Mitacs Accelerate: The How-To at RRU

How Student Research Funding Works at RRU