Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship

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.

Mitacs Elevate helps partner organizations build their business with support from top-ranked, highly trained research talent. Participating fellows work closely with partner organizations to understand their business needs and apply research principles to address these needs. 

Participating partner organizations build crucial relationships, oversee development, and access academic institution resources that may otherwise be unavailable.

Elevate partner organizations can also:

  • Assess potential research managers with minimal impact on existing budgets
  • Develop strategic networks with researchers, professors, and academic institutions
  • Leverage their research budget

The Elevate program offers:

  1. An award valued at $60,000 per year with a minimum stipend of $55,000
  • Partner organization contributes $30,000 per year
  1. An exclusive professional development curriculum
  2. Proposal assistance, including application feedback, from a Mitacs Advisor
  3. Certificate of completion after receipt of their exit survey and final report submission

Application Procedures

Please refer to the Mitacs website for application procedures.

Eligibility Requirements

Eligibility criteria may vary by province. Please refer to the Mitacs website for eligibility requirements.

Evaluation Criteria

Please refer to the Mitacs website for evaluation criteria.

Deadline

Annual Value

$60,000 CAD/year for two years