Mitacs-Accelerate PhD
Fellowships 2014
Note: This Call for Proposals is only
available to PhD students enrolled at a Mitacs full or associate partner
university. For a list of eligible full and associate partner universities,
please click here.
Applicants
are strongly encouraged to contact Mitacs for an administrative pre-review and
feedback of their proposal draft a minimum of 7 days before the deadline
date. If you are working with a Mitacs
Business Development Director, they may review your draft. If you are not working with a Mitacs
representative, you may send your proposal draft to
accelerate(at)mitacs.ca for informal
review and feedback. Please consult the program guide to determine if your
university is eligible.
Deadlines
Applications/proposals due: September 19, 2013
Decisions announced: November 28, 2013
A Mitacs-Accelerate PhD fellowship
application consists of the following documents:
The
completed Mitacs proposal. Proposals should be written in plain language but
should also include relevant technical detail. All proposals must be submitted
as a saved PDF.
The
memorandum signed by all partners (the intern, academic supervisor, partner
supervisor and a representative from the Office of Research Services*). The
memorandum must be submitted as a scanned PDF or other image document.
*Academic
supervisors must request approval from their Office of Research Services, and
the approval signature must be included on the memorandum submitted with the
proposal. Please ensure you contact them
prior to the Call for Proposals deadline date to determine if there are
specific internal deadlines for their review and approval.
A
current CV of the proposed intern (CV template is available for download from
the Mitacs website).
Conflict
of Interest Declaration form if applicable.
If you believe you have a Conflict of Interest to declare, please
contact Mitacs at accelerate@mitacs.ca
prior to finalizing the proposal. (See
the Conflict of Interest section in the Mitacs-Accelerate PhD Fellowship
Program Guide for more information.)
Supporting
documents, if applicable. Additional documents may be required to support the
proposal application. The proposal template outlines when these documents are
needed.
Downloads:
Mitacs
gratefully acknowledges the Government of Canada, the Networks of Centres of
Excellence's Industrial Research and Development Internship program, Western
Economic Diversification, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Alberta
Innovates Technology Futures and the governments of British Columbia, New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Newfoundland and Labrador through its Research and Development Corporation for
their support of Mitacs-Accelerate.
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