Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA)

Do I qualify

These eligibility rules were checked against the official page. They still need to match your own circumstances.

Everyone needs

• enrolment full-time senior undergraduate, graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, registered at an eligible Canadian or …
• career stage postdoctoral applicants: PhD graduation no more than five years before proposed project start and postdoctora…
• Not open to: institution research project at an institution where the applicant previously completed a degree
• age 18
• meet travel requirements for intended destination, including visa or immigration requirements and associated …
• maximum 2 Globalink Research Award or Mitacs-JSPS Summer Program Award internship units per academic lifetime…
• Not open to: more than one MITACS internship at the same time
• Not open to: simultaneously holding a Globalink Research Award and another Mitacs award; complete another Mitacs award bef…

These depend on how you qualify. The provider describes 4 ways, and you will not need all of them. The official page shows which applies to you.

• Not open to: citizenship research project in a country where the applicant holds citizenship
• citizenship Canadian citizen or permanent resident, enrolled in an eligible country other than Canada, project in Canada
• citizenship Canadian citizen or permanent resident, enrolled at a Canadian institution, holds citizenship in an eligible …
• outbound mobility from Canada: destination must not be classified by the Government of Canada as “Avoid all t…
• Not open to: Russia, North Korea
• check country eligibility status at application and before travel; comply with regional travel advisories

Not open to: institution where they have previously completed a degree; country where they hold citizenship; more than one MITACS internship at the same time; cannot simultaneously hold a Globalink Research Award and another Mitacs award; Participants who hold another Mitacs award must complete it prior to recei…

Level of study

Master's, PhD, Postdoctoral, Undergraduate

How to apply

These required steps were checked against official details for this cycle.

1. Check with your local Mitacs Advisor to confirm whether the project fits your institution’s funding requirements and request the link to the GRA Application Portal; the process may vary by Canadian university and internship-unit allocation. Required
2. Review Mitacs’s eligibility and award guidelines and those of the Canadian institution. Required
3. Identify a home and host academic supervisor, then connect with one another to discuss project interests; Mitacs does not match interns with supervisors. Required
4. Before preparing the application, the academic supervisor at the Canadian institution must obtain endorsement from that institution; contact the local Mitacs Advisor for information about the university’s endorsement rules and process. Required
5. Complete the portal application fields and submit the research proposal and Mitacs Pre-Departure form. Each supervisor and intern must log in and enter their own personal information, answer their own research-security question, and then log in again to sign off on the completed project. Required
6. Obtain the required Canadian university signatures: the Vice President Research (VPR) or designate signature is required for the Allocation stream but not the Quantum stream; an Office of Research Services (ORS) or designate signature is required for applications in either stream. Allow 1–3 weeks for the signatures. Required
7. Submit the complete application through the portal 12–16 weeks before the project start date. Only a local Mitacs Advisor, a Canadian-institution academic supervisor, or the intern who created the application may submit it; all participants receive a confirmation email after submission. Required