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.

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