I also recently met the operations manager at Mike Weir Wine. This is a great new connection for both MITACS and Parmasters. She, along with the president of the winery, are both quite interested in pursuing discussions with both firms. Great news!
Below is the brief introduction I often use in first emails to new contacts. It provides a quick overview of the area within MITACS where I focus. We're a large organization providing a diverse range of services and funding programs.
The MITACS ACCELERATE (Graduate Research Internship) Program brings together academia, industry and the public sector to develop cutting edge research-based tools vital to our knowledge based economy. This Internship Program is an effective way for industry, not-for-profit organisations, or government labs and agencies, to gain access to, and benefit from, the vast research expertise within our universities.
Our program sees graduate students or Post-Doctoral Fellows undertaking research on-site with companies to develop new tools and techniques to address high-level industry issues. The intern gains valuable industrial experience and an opportunity to apply their research to address novel issues, whilst the partner gains access to highly trained individuals (the intern and their supervising professor for a fraction of the normal cost associated with such world-class expertise).
Existing industry-academic collaborations may be eligible to participate. The cost to partners is $7,500 for the four-month period which is matched by the MITACS ACCELERATE Graduate Research Internship Program providing an additional $7,500.
Approximately 50% of the intern's time over the 4 months would be spent on site with the partner. The balance of the intern's time is spent back at their home university, further advancing the research under the guidance of their supervising professor.
Longer internships can be supported. MITACS ACCELERATE can also fund much larger projects, involving multiple interns. In recognition of the growing demand from professors to support multiple graduate students and/or post-doctoral fellows through a larger research project in collaboration with one or more industry partners, MITACS ACCELERATE has introduced Internship Clusters.
Internship clusters require a minimum of $30,000 from a partner and provide enhanced funding leverage (i.e. MITACS ACCELERATE contributes a greater percentage of the overall project costs) combined with the ACCELERATE Program's flexibility.
This program has been available in the mathematical sciences across Canada since 2003 (as The MITACS Internship Program). Recently, the program expanded in Ontario to all academic disciplines.
Applications for funding are reviewed and generally approved within about six to eight weeks. It's a very quick process.
For further information please visit www.mitacsaccelerate.ca. Past projects can be viewed at this site.
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