Deadline: November 20, 2024.

The information below is limited by my understanding of the call for projects. I find the wording of the call for proposals a little obscure. The program described here is not limited to exchanges between Canada and France, but I’m only talking about these exchanges.

Mitacs is a Canadian national organization that defines and implements research programs with numerous academic and industrial partners.

One of these programs offers research grants of $6,000

  • to students and post-docs working in Canada or France
  • usually working in Canada or France
  • to carry out a 12- to 24-week research stay in the country where they do not normally work.

The student or post-doctoral fellow must be presented by a scientist in France and a scientist in Canada.

The application must be submitted via a Canadian university, whose Mitacs correspondent (https://www.mitacs.ca/about/mitacs-advisors/) should be contacted to find out about local procedures. This correspondent is responsible for confirming the project’s eligibility and discussing the next steps. It is this person who will forward the link to the application portal.

This call is thematically limited:

  • Digital and emerging technologies (e.g. AI, advanced computing, cybersecurity, semiconductors) ;
  • Sustainability and carbon neutrality (e.g. electric vehicles, critical minerals, hydrogen, energy transition, oceans, clean technologies).
  • Life sciences (e.g. biomanufacturing, bioeconomy, agrifood, agrotechnology, health sciences)
  • Humanities and social innovation (open category).

The French partners are CNRS, Inria, Inserm, Université de Lorraine and the French Embassy in Canada. Members of UMRs and IRLs may therefore be considered among the scientists supervising students and post-docs wishing to come to Canada.

For the CNRS part of the call :

  • The proposed mobilities are reserved for doctoral students, post-doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows;
  • For mobility to Canada, the CNRS will favour applications where the supervisors are, for the French part, assigned by the CNRS to the IRL and, for the Canadian part, members of a university involved in the IRL;
  • Mobilities from Canada must be to an unité mixte de recherche (UMR) of which the CNRS is co-supervisor.

**Deadlines may be brought forward by the universities sending the applications. Please check with the local correspondents of Canadian partner universities.

More information on the Mitacs website.