Mitacs Innovation Awards 2025 for Canadians – YOA

Deadline: September 16, 2025

Nominations are open for the Mitacs Innovation Awards 2025. Now in its fifteenth yr, the Mitacs Innovation Awards will highlight eight distinctive innovators — from college students and professors to start out-ups and enterprise companions — whose groundbreaking work is made doable by means of partnerships with Mitacs. Mitacs is dedicated to constructing strategic partnerships, deploying prime expertise, and addressing urgent challenges by means of inclusive innovation designed to place Canada as a worldwide chief.

The Mitacs Innovation Awards are an OPPORTUNITY to:

• Celebrate achievements and share compelling tales of Canadian ingenuity
• Bring collectively Canada’s prime researchers with leaders from throughout sectors together with business, publish-secondary establishments, and authorities
• Provide a highlight on new and rising Canadian expertise and spotlight groundbreaking achievements

With a rising fame as one in all Canada’s premier innovation celebrations, the occasion attracts nationwide media consideration. The 2025 ceremony will probably be livestreamed by means of Mitacs’s social channels, with highlights, movies, and winner tales shared after the occasion.

Categories

• Outstanding Innovation: With 4 winners on this class, the Mitacs Outstanding Innovation Award acknowledges extraordinary expertise from throughout Canada amongst college students and publish-doctoral fellows who’ve participated in a Mitacs packages. This class emphasizes the societal and financial impacts of analysis, in addition to the potential to drive innovation and tackle challenges.
• Inclusive Innovator of the Year: This Award is meant to have fun the achievements of fairness-deserving teams in growing and/or fostering an inclusive innovation ecosystem. It celebrates analysis achievements that promote social inclusion, incorporate numerous views, and prioritize accessibility within the design and execution of progressive tasks, merchandise, and companies.
• Canadian Start-Up Innovator of the Year Award: The Canadian Start-Up Innovator of the Year Award celebrates an excellent Canadian innovator who has counted on Mitacs assist to kick-begin their entrepreneurial journey. This award highlights the profitable commercialization of analysis and/or the creation of a brand new enterprise enterprise by a Mitacs program participant. This award is a celebration of the infinite potential created when analysis and entrepreneurial imaginative and prescient align.
• Canadian Enterprise Innovator of the Year Award: The Canadian Enterprise Innovator of the Year Award celebrates a Mitacs business associate whose management, adoption of burgeoning know-how, and assist of progressive analysis and improvement display an ongoing dedication to growing expertise and boosting Canada’s productiveness and financial progress.
• Outstanding Research Leadership: The Mitacs Innovation Award for Outstanding Research Leadership is offered to a publish-secondary supervisor with an exemplary document of growing collaborations with enterprise companions. Either related to a college or faculty, the winner of this class gives useful analysis and coaching expertise to Mitacs interns and implements funding in direction of impactful tasks.

Eligibility

• The award classes are open to nominations for faculty, CEGEP, polytechnic, and college members from eligible packages.
• All awards are open to see and self-nomination with letters of assist from tutorial supervisors required for intern and pupil self-nomination.

Application

Self-nominations for the Outstanding Innovation Award require a assist letter out of your supervisor. Research Leadership Award nominations additionally want a assist letter. No late submissions will probably be accepted.

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For extra data, go to Mitacs Innovation Awards.