Mitacs Partnership with OWC

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For technology development, advancement, and adoption.

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Overview

The Ontario Water Consortium (OWC) and Mitacs are engaged in a strategic partnership to create opportunities between Ontario’s innovative water companies, municipal utilities and highly trained college, undergraduate, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

The Mitacs Accelerate program connects high-calibre academic candidates with industry, not-for-profit organizations, and municipalities to foster innovation. Mitacs contributes roughly half of the funding for internships, which is generously provided by the Governments of Ontario and Canada, and the other half comes from the host company or municipality. That is, Mitacs provides up to $7,500 per 4-month internship with a required 1:1 match.

Why participate through OWC?*

OWC will help connect water technology companies, municipalities and academics to the information and partners they need to succeed. This includes introducing the Mitacs Accelerate program, establishing a direct contact at Mitacs for the applicant, shaping the project proposal to fit the Mitacs criteria and utilizing OWC’s vast network to find suitable project partners.

*Please note that a Service Fee may apply for any support provided by OWC staff to projects where an official Consortium partner is not involved.

Applying Through OWC:

STEP 1: Complete the OWC - Mitacs Project Intake Form

STEP 2: Submit the Intake Form to OWC

Submit Intake Form Here

How OWC and Mitacs can help you:

Project Hosts

Who is eligible?

  • For-profit corporations and eligible not-for-profit corporations, municipalities, and hospitals in Canada
    • Eligibility of not-for-profit corporations, hospitals, and municipalities as well as the project’s economic orientation for these partners must be assessed prior to proposal submission
  • For-profit businesses operating outside Canada
  • Under the Accelerate Entrepreneur initiative, eligible intern-owned start-ups at approved incubators. Contact accelerate@mitacs.ca to confirm your start-up’s eligibility
  • All sectors

Benefits:

  • Take advantage of OWC’s program expertise and direct contacts at Mitacs to help shape the project proposal to fit the Mitacs criteria
  • Access academic expertise, utilizing OWC’s vast network to find suitable project partners
  • Augment your R&D budget
  • Get better leveraging for projects with three or more interns and six or more internships
  • Identify new markets, commercialize results, and assess potential employees

Academics

Who is eligible?

  • Faculty at all Canadian universities who are eligible to hold Tri-Agency funds, and faculty at Canadian colleges
  • Faculty at universities outside of Canada
  • Professors who want to send interns to Canada must be located in a Mitacs partner country (see  Accelerate International  tab for details)
  • All disciplines

Benefits:

  • Take advantage of OWC’s program expertise and direct contacts at Mitacs to help shape the project proposal to fit the Mitacs criteria
  • Build flexible research partnerships, utilizing OWC’s vast network to find suitable project partners
  • Fund students and postdocs
  • Get better matching for your partner: projects with three or more interns and six or more internships get increased matching funds