{"id":3964,"date":"2017-11-24T09:45:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2017-11-24T09:45:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:45:32","slug":"new-long-term-funding-and-training-opportunity-from-mitacs-accelerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-3964","title":{"rendered":"New long-term funding and training opportunity from Mitacs Accelerate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Mitacs would like to let you know about a new opportunity for your graduate students.<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitacs.ca\/en\/programs\/accelerate\/fellowship?utm_source=call&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=AccelerateFellowship-Nov232017-IT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship<\/span><\/b><\/a><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"> provides long-term funding that supports students for a significant part of their degree: <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Master\u2019s students can complete an 18-month project and receive a minimum $30,000 stipend<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">PhD students can complete a three-year project and receive a minimum $72,000 stipend<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">The Accelerate Fellowship also offers national professional development training that helps interns gain in-demand career skills and ensure the success of their projects. <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Accelerate Fellowship applications are accepted any time, as standalone projects or part of existing ones. All Accelerate policies apply. For more information or to start an application, contact the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitacs.ca\/en\/contact-us\/business-development?utm_source=call&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=AccelerateFellowship-Nov232017-IT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Mitacs representative at your university<\/span><\/a><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; border: 1pt windowtext; color: #262626; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">Mitacs would like to thank the Government of Canada, along with Alberta Innovates, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Research &amp; Development Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, the Government of Prince Edward Island, the Government of Quebec, and the Government of Saskatchewan for their support of Mitacs Accelerate.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\"><strong>Montr\u00e9al Office<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>405 avenue Ogilvy,<\/p>\n<p>Bureau 101<\/p>\n<p>Montr\u00e9al, QC H3N 1M3<\/td>\n<td width=\"231\"><strong>Toronto Office<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>100 College Street, Suite 522<\/p>\n<p>University of Toronto<\/p>\n<p>Toronto, ON M5G 1L5<\/td>\n<td width=\"206\"><strong>Vancouver Office<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6190 Agronomy Road, Suite 301<\/p>\n<p>University of British Columbia<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitacs would like to let you know about a new opportunity for your graduate students.\u00a0 The Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship provides long-term funding that supports students for a significant part of their degree: \u00a0 Master\u2019s students can complete an 18-month project and receive a minimum $30,000 stipend PhD students can complete a three-year project and receive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions\/3965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}