Value
$6,000Description
Under the joint supervision of a home and host professor at a university in Canada and an institution affiliated with one of Mitacs’s international partners, senior undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral fellows included in successful applications will receive a $6,000 research award to conduct a 12- to 24-week research project in the other country.
Although there are limitations on international travel at the present time, research projects selected through this call for applications will have up to a year to begin (February 2023). All potential applicants must check with their institutions about their policies on international travel prior to submitting an application.
Eligible Applicants
Students and postdoctoral fellows
- Must be registered as full-time senior undergraduates, graduate students, or postdoctoral fellows at an eligible Canadian institution or eligible institution outside Canada and remain as such throughout their Globalink Research Award
- Undergraduate applicants completing their first post-secondary degree must have completed their second year of studies prior to departure. All applicants enrolled in an undergraduate degree must have maintained a B average in their two most recent semesters prior to application. This average can be cumulative over the two semesters.
- Postdoctoral fellows may apply if their date of graduation from a PhD program is no more than five years prior to the proposed start date of the research project and they have postdoctoral status at an eligible institution.
- Cannot undertake a research project at an institution where they have previously completed a degree
- Cannot undertake a research project in a country where they hold citizenship
- Permanent residents or citizens of Canada who are enrolled in an eligible country other than Canada and who wish to do a project in Canada are eligible to apply.
- Applicants who hold citizenship of Canada and another eligible country may apply to do a project in either country
- Cannot undertake a research project in a country where they hold citizenship
- Must be the legal age of majority in Canada (18 years of age or older)
- Must meet travel requirements for their intended destination, including visa and/or immigration requirements and associated documentation
- Cannot hold more than one Globalink Research Award per academic lifetime
- Cannot have previously held a Mitacs-JSPS Summer Program award
Supervising professors
- Must hold a faculty position at an eligible institution
- Must be eligible to supervise graduate students
- Supervisors at Canadian institutions: Must be eligible to hold Tri-Agency funding
Eligible Expenses
International Partners:
- Belgium: Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI)
- Brazil and Mexico: Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)
- France: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
- France: École Polytechnique
- France: French Embassy in Canada
- France: Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (Inria)
- France: Université de Bordeaux
- France: Université de Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
- France: Université de Lorraine
- Germany: Jülich (FZJ Helmholtz Association)
- Germany: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Germany: GSI Heavy Ion Institute (Helmholtz Association)
- Germany/USA/Luxembourg/Italy/The Netherlands: Max Planck Society
- Israel: Council for Higher Education (CHE)
- Japan: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
- Korea: National Research Foundation (NRF) Korea
- Mexico: Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP)
- Mexico: Universidad Tecnológica El Retoño (UTR) – Aguascalientes
- Singapore: National Research Foundation (NRF-Singapore) / AISG
- South Africa: National Research Foundation
- Taiwan: National Cheng Kung University, Global Research and Industry Alliance (NCKU GLORIA)
- Tunisia: Mediterranean Institute of Technology (MedTech)
- United Kingdom: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Deadline Date
Now open. Professors can submit projects by December 1, 2021.Contact
Contact Name: Mitacs
E-mail Address: international@mitacs.ca
Website: https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/globalink-research-award