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Forge exciting new collaborative partnerships with international organizations and academic institutions, while empowering your students to seize research opportunities abroad, through the Globalink Research Award. Open to full-time senior undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, the $6,000 award allows talented researchers to undertake a 12- to 24-week project with a host supervisor in Canada, and eligible countries and regions.
Program Details
The Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA) supports research collaborations between Canada and select partner organizations and eligible countries and regions.
Under the joint supervision of a home and host professor, successful senior undergraduate students, graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows will receive a $6,000 research award to conduct a 12- to 24-week research project in the other country. Awards are offered in partnership with Mitacs’s Canadian academic partners (and, in some cases, with Mitacs’s international partners) and are subject to available funding.
Program Overview
Applicants (student or postdoctoral fellow, home and host supervisors) submit their application to Mitacs 16 weeks prior to the project start date for processing.
Within 12 weeks of submission, Mitacs will contact participants about the outcome of the application. Travel must take place within a year from the date of the outcome.
The intern provides the completed Mitacs Pre-Departure form within 6 months prior to their travel date.
Mitacs forwards the GRA funds to the Canadian institution after receiving the signed Pre-Departure form. In some cases, interns may receive a portion of the funds from Mitacs’s partner organization.
The intern departs to the destination and begins the research project.
All participants (student or postdoctoral fellow, home and host supervisors) submit an exit survey.
Funding
Projects must begin within one year of the outcome letter being issued
Interns must submit the Pre-Departure form, and confirm their project dates in order to receive the award letter
Interns cannot travel until Mitacs has issued both an outcome and award letter
Approved recipients will receive funds to support intern travel and accommodation expenses, research-related expenses, and stipend. Mitacs funds will be sent to the Canadian institution’s Office of Research Services (or equivalent) and administered as a research grant in the Canadian supervisor’s name.
Some awards are sponsored in part by one of Mitacs’s international partners and funding amounts may vary.
Where awards are partially funded by one of Mitacs’s international partners, interns may receive funds directly through the partner. Where applicable, the outcome letter will provide applicants with instructions for accessing partner funds.
Mitacs funds must be spent according to the budget in the application and Tri-Agency eligible expenses. See Mitacs use of funds for details of eligible expenses for Mitacs programs.
Funding is based on a project duration of 12 weeks, though projects durations of up to 24 weeks are acceptable. Applicants are encouraged to seek support from other funding sources for longer durations and use prudence when allocating funds to travel and accommodations.
International Partners
Australia: Universities Australia
Brazil: Fundação Araucária Foundation
Chile: Consejo de Rectores de las Universidades Chilenas (CRUCH-FUDEA)
European Union: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) RISE
France: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
France: France-Canada Research Funds Consortium (FCRF)
France: French Embassy in Canada
France: Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (Inria)
France: Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm)
France: Université de Grenobles Alpes (UGA)
France: Université de Lorraine
Germany: GSI Heavy Ion Institute (Helmholtz Association)
Germany: Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ Helmholtz Association)
Germany: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Germany: RWTH-Aachen University-National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
Germany/USA/Luxembourg/Italy/The Netherlands: Max Planck Society
Japan: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Korea: National Research Foundation (NRF) Korea
South Africa: National Research Council of South Africa (NRF SA)
Taiwan: National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) – NARLabs
Ukraine: Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine - Applications on pause until further notice
United Kingdom: British High Commission Ottawa
If you have a question on a specific international partner, please contact Étienne Pineault. For other questions, please contact the local Mitacs Advisor.
Eligibility
Must hold a faculty position at an eligible university
Must be eligible to supervise graduate students
Supervisors at Canadian institutions: Must be eligible to hold Tri-Agency funding
Country Eligibility
In addition to the Mitacs international partner offering (international partner stream), the program also supports research and travel to academic institutions between Canada and most countries (allocation stream).Mitacs supports collaboration and outbound mobility between Canada and all countries except those classified as “Avoid all travel” or “Avoid non-essential travel” by the Government of Canada. For inbound mobility, all countries are eligible except for Russia and North Korea.
Please note that this list is subject to change at any time and participants are required to check the status at the time of application and prior to travel. Additionally, participants must adhere to any regional “Avoid all travel” or “Avoid non-essential” travel advisories.
Before you begin your application, please contact Memorial's Mitacs advisors, who will assist you in completing the application process: Heidi Crummell, 709-327-8902, hcrummell@mitacs.ca
Once the application is complete, you must then submit for Departmental, HSS Faculty, and Research Initiatives and Services (RIS) institutional reviews and approvals via Memorial's Researcher Portal (RP). In order to facilitate the HSS Faculty’s administrative review, please ensure "Heather C. O'Brien (Grants Facilitator)" and “Matthew Milner (Grants Facilitator)” are added as "Team Members" on your RP file. Allow at least 10 business days for these reviews to be completed.
In accordance with University-wide approval protocols, all tabs of the RP file must be completed, the completed application must be uploaded to the “Attachments” tab, all supporting documentation including support for cash and in-kind commitments and/or letters of support must also be uploaded, and “Submit” must be pressed in order for HSS to begin its administrative review and provide approvals. HSS cannot guarantee timely completion of an administrative review for application files that are incomplete. For more detailed submission instructions and information, please consult the HSS Research Support Services website.
If you plan to apply to this competition or other research funding opportunities (as either PI or CI), e-mail an HSS Grants Facilitator, Heather C. O’Brien (HSSResearchAdmin@mun.ca or 864-8603) or Matthew Milner (HSSResearchGrants@mun.ca or 864-8050), to notify the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of your intent to apply. E-mailing the intent to apply as early as possible will help to facilitate an efficient review. A Grants Facilitator can answer any questions you may have about internal or external submission procedures and may also be able to help with proposal development.