Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Funding

Mitacs Elevate is a postdoctoral fellowship with an exclusive professional development curriculum component. Fellows address complex challenges through:

• A two-year research project with a partner organization in need of high-level expertise
• A professional development curriculum that prepares Elevate fellows for success as leaders in research and industry

Fellows progress through the program in a cohort, giving them cross-disciplinary networking and peer-learning opportunities they might not have otherwise in their careers.

Over the two-year fellowship, fellows divide their time between their partner organization's project and academic institution-based research with their academic supervisor.

Spring 2023

The Spring 2023 call will accept applications addressing at least one of the key priority areas. Elevate fellows receive:

• a $70,000 minimum annual stipend/salary for projects addressing at least one of the following key priority sectors: agriculture and food, artificial intelligence, biomanufacturing, clean technology, entertainment and media, quantum science, or social innovation
  
• An exclusive professional development curriculum valued at $4,000 per year
  
• Proposal assistance, including application feedback, from Mitacs representatives
  
• Certificate of completion after receipt of their exit survey and final report submission

Explore enhanced leveraging opportunities available to your partner organization with your local business development representative.

Full Eligibility details

*Special Call*

Postdoctoral fellows can apply for projects within the thematic areas for two years of funding valued at $80,000/year.

• We are accepting applications for projects addressing at least one of the following key priority sectors: agriculture and food, artificial intelligence, biomanufacturing, clean technology, entertainment and media, quantum science, or social innovation.
• Standard funding is set at 1:1 leveraging with the partner organization, however we are also offering enhanced funding ratios through our Indigenous Pathways program.

Key dates:

• Call Launch is May 4^th, 2022
• Application submission deadline to Mitacs is July 6^th, 2022