Value
$15,000 in total funding to support the intern’s stipend. Each employer is eligible for one grant valued at $3,750.Description
Innovate BC is pleased to partner with Mitacs to support talent and business in BC. Innovate BC is investing $375,000 towards 100 Mitacs internships for COVID-19-specific projects. The funding infusion from Innovate BC coupled with Mitacs’s leveraged funds offsets the standard company-partner contribution towards the intern’s stipend and increases access to research during this pandemic.
This funding will be distributed through the Mitacs Accelerate program and will provide eligible projects with $15,000 in total funding to support the intern’s stipend. Each employer is eligible for one Innovate BC grant valued at $3,750
Eligible Applicants
- Be a B.C.-based SME.
- Have less than 500 employees
- Be either a technologyScience or knowledge put into practical use to solve problems or invent useful tools. company or technology not-for-profit hiring a student for any role, or a non-tech company or non-tech not-for-profit hiring for a tech role
- Be hiring a student currently enrolled at a post-secondary institution in B.C.
- Have a project approved by the Mitacs Accelerate Program.
Eligible Expenses
$15,000 to support a joint academic-industry research project at no cost to businesses.
Deadline Date
OngoingContact
Contact Name: Innovate BC
Phone Number: 604.952.5035 or1.800.719.2571 (toll-free)
E-mail Address: info@innovatebc.ca
Website: https://innovatebc.ca/what-we-offer/get-funding/mitacs-innovate-bc-program/