Mitacs Accelerate—Postdoctoral Awards

Canada Postdoctoral Research Award applicants working with Canadian business and/or not-for-profit organizations are invited to apply for Mitacs Accelerate. The Mitacs website offers information on eligible partner organizations and eligible research.

Eligible applicants must select the “Mitacs Accelerate’’ option from the drop-down menu in their SSHRC application form. They are also required to complete an abridged Mitacs Accelerate application form. To access the form, they must contact a Mitacs advisor. Candidates are required to upload the Mitacs Accelerate form to their Canada Postdoctoral Research Award application by clicking on the “Mitacs Form” section in the left-hand menu of the SSHRC application form.

When completing the “Tenure location” and the “Secondary tenure location” sections of their SSHRC application form, applicants must identify their host university as their primary institution of affiliation and their partner organization for their Mitacs application as their secondary institution of affiliation. In addition, they must include the required institutional affiliation justification, as outlined in the Program of work instructions.

For more information:

• Email: fellowships@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca