Mitacs paid research internships are still among the best

By Moira MacDonald. After 14 years of existence, this is an internship model worth emulating. The Mitacs-Accelerate program was created in 1999 to connect graduate-level students with companies interested in having students work with them on business-related research projects. Jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments, last year it organized 1,750 internships, a number it hopes to bring to 2,000 this year. More...