The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

1. Support the development of structured, openly available, diverse, inclusive and sustainable training and mentoring platforms that build Canadian capacity in areas of health research, health issues, scientific opportunities and critical gaps by:
   • Supporting the engagement of diverse trainees and early career researchers (ECRs) in collaborative research across institutions, disciplines, jurisdictions and sectors;
   • Incorporating diverse training approaches, including experiential training opportunities;
   • Including diverse and inclusive paradigms of research training and mentoring (e.g., Indigenous ways of knowing and community-based research) in a meaningful and culturally safe manner; and
   • Implementing recruitment, training, and mentorship strategies to attract trainees and ECRs from a diversity of population groups and communities, including those who have been historically excluded, by embedding and applying equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) best practices in these strategies.
2. Support the development of skills that increase the likelihood of employability and career prospects of diverse trainees and ECRs across sectors, by integrating training on:
   • Approaches to advance rigorous, responsible, and impactful research (e.g., EDI considerations and analysis – including sex- and gender-based analysis, embedding inclusive patient and persons with lived or living experience (PWLE) engagement in all stages of research, knowledge mobilization, research data management, research involving Indigenous Peoples, ethics, unconscious bias);
   • Grant/proposal writing, budgeting, and peer review;
   • Professional development skills (including transferrable skills, such as communication, analytical thinking, problem solving, project management, leadership, etc.);
   • Applying knowledge mobilization strategies (e.g., priority-setting and co-production, dissemination and communication, evidence synthesis, implementation of high-quality evidence, embedded research, etc.) and advancing knowledge mobilization science (e.g., implementation science, embedded research, evaluation of KM strategies) and,
   • Diverse career options and opportunities available across the different sectors (academia, private/for profit, public, and not-for-profit).

The objective of the Indigenous Forestry Initiative (IFI) is to advance reconciliation in the forest sector by supporting Indigenous-identified priorities to accelerate Indigenous awareness, influence, inclusion, and leadership.

The IFI provides financial support to inclusive, Indigenous-led activities in the forest sector, such as:

• gathering, developing, using, and protecting Indigenous knowledge and science
• Indigenous leadership and participation in forest stewardship
• the identification, consideration, and pursuit of economic development opportunities

Mitacs has opened its call for applications under its Globalink Research Award Thematic Call (GRATC).   Ontario applicants may submit applications under this specific program, however no awards will be finalized until the funding situation with Ontario has been resolved.  Given that decisions on applications are expected in February-March 2023, it can be anticipated that any additional delays (if any) for Ontario applications will be minor, given the start of the new fiscal year. 

The award to the student or post-doctoral fellow is CAD 6,000 for a 12-24 week project (inbound or outbound); up to five students/PDF may be included on an application.  Applicants who are approved have one year from the date of approval to start the project.

GRA Thematic calls are competitive calls with specific partners, and do not require any any co-pay from Lakehead or count against our annual allocation.

Deadline to apply: November 25, 2022

Themes this year include an Open Theme: 

1) Advanced computing (AI and Quantum technologies)

2) Clean technologies

3) Global Health

4) Open theme: Social and scientific innovation

Partners:  The coverage of institutions varies greatly by partner. In addition to the regular Mitacs eligibility criteria, each partner may have specific (more restrictive) eligibility criteria - it is crucial to review the partner details. 

Argentina/Brazil/Chile/Colombia/Mexico/Ukraine: Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) 
Australia: Universities Australia 
Brazil: Fundação Araucária Foundation
France: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
France: Embassy of France in Canada
France: Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (Inria)
France: Université de Lorraine
Germany: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Helmholtz Association)
Germany: Forschungszentrum Jülich (Helmholtz Association)
Germany: GSI Heavy Ion Institute (Helmholtz Association) 
Germany/USA/Luxembourg/Italy/The Netherlands: Max Planck Society
India: Shastri Indo Canadian Institute (SICI)
Japan: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Korea: National Research Foundation (NRF)
Mexico: Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP)
Mexico: Universidad Tecnológica El Retoño (UTR) – Aguascalientes
South Africa: National Research Foundation
Taiwan: National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)
United Kingdom: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Mitacs will be launching a special thematic call for the Globalink Research Award program on September 1 with an application deadline of December 1.  The pre-call announcement gives you extra time to begin identifying potential collaborators.  An info session will be organized around mid-September and announced on September 1.  The themes are AI and Quantum Computing; Achieving Net Zero; and Global Health (please see the sub themes below).

In most cases, projects can include undergraduate and graduate students as well as post-doctoral fellows, and can be bi-directional (even include both inbound and outbound students on the same project). Student/PDF awards are for CAD 6,000 for full-time research projects of 6-12 weeks.  Some partners may have alternative eligibility criteria and award guidelines.

 Specific features of the GRA thematic call:

•        No financial contribution required

•        Theme-based

•        Competitive call

•        Multiple Mitacs international partners participating: 21

•        Multiple students per application: up to 5 in either direction

•        Application package available online through a webform

Themes & Subthemes :

1. Advanced computing (Quantum and AI)

 Quantum computing 

 Advanced materials for computing and other advanced computing technologies 

 AI and health 

 AI and climate change 

 Cybersecurity 

2. Achieving Net Zero 

 Sustainable technologies 

 Future cities/IoT 

 Environmental sustainability 

 Circular economy 

 Water 

 Food Security 

3. Global Health

 OneHealth 

 Innovations in therapies and prevention 

 Biomanufacturing 

 Healthy aging 

 Mental health and wellbeing 

Match making service: Research Request for International Collaboration (RRIC):

If you already have a research project in mind and one or more interested students, and would like to work with one or more specific Mitacs international partner(s) but you don’t have any prior contact or collaboration with that institution or researcher, you can submit the attached form and Mitacs will assist in making the connections.  There is no need to use this form if you already have a research collaborator at a Mitacs partner institution.

Complete the form and return it to intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.  The ORS will review, and If the project idea will contribute to Lakehead’s research priorities, it will be forwarded to Mitacs.  Mitacs will then contact the appropriate international partner so they can share the opportunity with their network.

PARTICIPATING PARTNERS

Some partners are specific institutions, some are funding agencies covering many institutions. Please note that partners may have their own specific eligibility criteria as described on the Mitacs website. Please check under the “International Partners Information” tab on the Thematic Call webpage: 

https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/globalink-thematic-call

Mitacs has now opened its Thematic Call for Globalink Research Award applications.  The deadline is November 17, 2023.

https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/globalink-thematic-call

WEBINAR: Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 2:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. ET    Teams Link 

In most cases, awards for interns are for CAD 6,000 for projects of 12 to 24 weeks in duration. Up to 5 interns can be named on a single project application (traveling in either direction).  Undergraduates through post-doctoral fellows are typically eligible, however, eligibility criteria can vary by partner.  Interns have one year from the date of approval to use the award.

The themes include but are not limited to the list below. Please note that there is a great deal of scope under the Open Theme.

1) Advanced computing (e.g., AI and Quantum technologies, Robotics, Cybersecurity) 

2) Clean technologies (e.g., electric vehicles) 

3) Health Innovations (e.g., biomanufacturing) 

4) Open theme: Social and scientific innovation

Partners:

For the thematic call, it is essential to review participating international partners and their specific eligibility requirements; go to the “International partners information” tab on the Mitacs website.

• Argentina/Brazil/Chile/Colombia/Mexico/Ukraine: Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)  
• Australia: Universities Australia  
• Brazil: Fundação Araucária (State of Paraná)
• France: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) 
• France: Embassy of France in Canada 
• France: Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (Inria) 
• France: Université de Lorraine 
• Germany: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Helmholtz Association) 
• Germany: Forschungszentrum Jülich (Helmholtz Association) 
• Germany/USA/Luxembourg/Italy/The Netherlands: Max Planck Society 
• Japan: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 
• Korea: National Research Foundation (NRF) 
• South Africa: National Research Foundation 
• Taiwan: National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)
• United Kingdom: British High Commission Ottawa

 For more information, please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

Pilot Project Grant (PPG)

• Up to $75,000 (1-year term)
• To foster novel, high-potential projects, and ideas with a trajectory for major grants with larger granting institutions

Graduate Student Award (GSA)

• $20,000 per year (2-year term)
• Full-time graduate students at the PhD level conducting research relevant to the cure, cause, prevention, improved treatment and/or understanding of Parkinson’s disease or related disorders.

Note: The Graduate Student Award for the Master’s level is not available. 

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (PRF)

• $45,000 per year (2-year term)
• Candidates must hold a doctoral degree (PhD or MD) obtained in the last 5 years and are exclusively conducting research relevant to the cure, cause, prevention, improved treatment and/or understanding of Parkinson’s disease or related disorders.

Clinician Scientist Research Fellowship (CSRF)

• $50,000 per year or $75,000 per year (2-year term)
• For applicants who are actively pursuing a research project related to Parkinson’s Disease while concurrently undergoing clinical training.
  • $50,000 per year for Residents in Neurology/Neurosurgery
  • $75,000 per year for Clinical Fellows

Clinical Movement Disorder Fellowship (CMDF)

• $75,000 per year (1-year term)
• A training award for applicants who are enrolled in a clinical fellowship for movement disorders.

New Investigator Award

• $45,000 per year (3-year term)
• A project grant to encourage and support early career researchers in the field of Parkinson’s Disease who were appointed to their first faculty appointment within the last 5 years.

CQDM’s Quantum Leap pharma-led funding program for drug discovery research helps SMEs or Canadian universities achieve innovative translational biopharmaceutical research projects. Projects selected as part of the Quantum Leap program focus on developing cutting-edge technologies with the potential to significantly advance the R&D activities of CQDM’s pharmaceutical members. Quantum Leap projects are executed in close collaboration and with the expert support and funds of pharmaceutical members.