Accelerate
The four eligible partner organization types for Accelerate.
What are for-profit companies, eligible not-for-profits, municipalities and hospitals?
Only __________ are eligible as Elevate interns.
The year that BSI officially launched (not the pilot).
What is 2021?
What is Globalink Research Award?
The first discipline that Mitacs offered internships in.
What is Mathematics?
What is six units and three interns?
The number of times per year that Elevate is open for applications.
The maximum number of BSI interns on one project.
What is ten interns?
The acronym MEI stands for.
What is Mitacs Entrepreneur International?
The year that Mitacs was founded.
What is 1999.
The partner contribution amount per Standard Accelerate unit under Indigenous Pathways.
What is $3,750?
The number of Wednesdays in each Elevate.
What is 104? (2 years*52 weeks)
The maximum length of a BSI internship for one college student.
What is 18 months or 3 units?
A Mitacs grant for foreign students following the completion of their Globalink Research Internship.
What is the Globalink Graduate Fellowship? ($15,000 for studies in a graduate research program)
The number of Accelerate internship units in 2020-21.
What is 18,950?
The total number of different Accelerate programs. (BONUS points if you can name ALL of them)
7 (or 6 depending on whether you count "Cluster").
Standard Accelerate, (Accelerate Cluster), Accelerate Entrepreneur, Accelerate International, Accelerate Industrial Postdoc, Accelerate Fellowships, Accelerate Explore
The maximum number of Accelerate units that can be completed by an intern prior to applying to Elevate.
What is 3 units?
The maximum $ value of a single BSI application.
What is $1,350,000? (10 postdocs for 9 units*$15k)
The number of countries eligible for GRA (not including Canada).
What is 51?
What are the Mitacs nicknames of Eric Bosco and Simon Bousquet?
The absolute lifetime maximum $ amount of funding that one individual intern could apply for through Accelerate.
What is $450,000? (27 units: 3 College, 3 undergrad, 4 masters, 8 PhD all at $15k/unit + 9 PDF @ $20k/unit)
The three core focus areas of the Elevate Training Program.
What is 'Leadership and Management', 'Communications and Relationship Building', and 'Personal and Professional Management'?
The ONLY academic discipline that is NOT permitted to do BSI under Mitacs rules.
What is a trick question, all disciplines are eligible?
The process for vetting hospital projects.
What is 1) determining if the partner organization is a hospital 2) asking if the project directly benefits the hospital 3) asking if the intern is in a new environment? (Bonus: 4) making sure it is not a clinical trial for a pharmaceutical company)
The previous CEO of Mitacs before John Hepburn.
Who is Alejandro Adem (current President of NSERC)?