Mitacs has partnered with the Government of India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to support student mobility between Canadian universities and Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).
The Mitacs Globalink Research Award – MHRD India is an exciting new competitive initiative that provides the opportunity for faculty members and graduate students at Canadian universities to build an international research network and undertake research abroad at seven IITs in India including:
- IIT Bombay
- IIT Guwahati
- IIT Hyderbad
- IIT Kanpur
- IIT Kharagpur
- IIT Gandhinagar
- IIT Roorkee
The call for applications will open on March 19, 2015, and will close on May 13, 2015, at 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). This is a competitive call and a limited number of awards are available. Successful applicants can begin their research projects as early as July 2015 and as late as December 31, 2015.
For complete information on this opportunity, please visit Mitacs.ca.
Mitacs is a national, private not-for-profit organization that has designed and delivered unique research and training programs in Canada for 15 years. In partnership with the not-for-profit sector, companies and universities, Mitacs is supporting a new economy using Canada’s most valuable resource—its people. As a complement to its domestic initiatives, Mitacs has a series of international programs which provide two-way knowledge and talent exchange between key partner countries and Canada. Such international opportunities provide a means to expand Canada’s academic connections facilitating the exchange of knowledge and ideas.