Thursday, December 17, 2009

[PDADC-L] MITACS Funding Opportunity for 80 Post Doctoral Fellowships @

Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:02:09 -0500
From: "Vice-President, Research (Professor R. Paul Young)"
To: PDADC-L@listserv.utoronto.ca

Subject: [PDADC-L] MITACS Funding Opportunity for 80 Post Doctoral Fellowships @
Southern Ontario Universities
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MEMORANDUM

TO: Principals, Deans, Academic Directors and Chairs
FROM: Professor R. Paul Young, Vice-President, Research
DATE: 17th December 2009

RE: MITACS

MITACS Elevate is a new pilot program designed to ensure that PhD holders, among the most highly-skilled individuals in Canada, are retained and equipped for future careers. Up to 80 positions are available for postdoctoral fellowships at Southern Ontario universities. Each fellowship will be for a one-year term, renewable for an additional year.

Elevate is open to those individuals with a recognized PhD degree who are residents of Ontario or citizens/permanent residents of Canada planning to move to Ontario. Elevate fellows will gain valuable research experience in areas of industrial and societal importance as well as training in on-technical professional skills.

Elevate offers two types of fellowship programs:

1. Industrial Fellowship Program: Targeted towards PhD holders with an established collaboration with an Ontario-based partner, and valued at $70,000 annually. Fellows are expected to undertake research with their academic supervisor in collaboration with their partner, who provides a minimum $15,000 of the total grant. The fellow will receive a minimum $60,000 annual stipend.

2. Strategic Fellowship Program: designed for PhD's interested in establishing collaboration with an Ontario based-partner during their fellowship, and valued at $55,000 annually. Fellows are expected to undertake research with an academic supervisor in an area of strategic importance for Ontario and where there is high potential for collaboration with a non-academic organization. The academic supervisor is responsible for providing $10,000 of the total grant. The fellow will
receive a minimum $50,000 annual stipend.

Deadline for applications: January 31, 2010

Fellowship start dates: by September 1, 2010

Please visit www.mitacs.ca/goto/Elevate for program details and to apply.

Please direct any questions to elevate@mitacs.ca.


Professor R. Paul Young Ph.D., FRSC
Vice-President, Research
University of Toronto
Simcoe Hall, Room 109
27 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1
Telephone: 416-978-4984
Email: vp.research@utoronto.ca

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