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Mitacs has launched the 2021 Globalink Thematic Call in three priority areas – Advanced Computing (Quantum and AI), Achieving Net Zero, and Global Health.

1. Advanced computing (Quantum and AI)

• Quantum computing 
• Advanced materials for computing and other advanced computing technologies 
• AI and health 
• AI and climate change 
• Cybersecurity 

2. Achieving Net Zero 

• Sustainable technologies 
• Future cities/IoT 
• Environmental sustainability 
• Circular economy 
• Water 
• Food Security 

3. Global Health

• OneHealth 
• Innovations in therapies and prevention 
• Biomanufacturing 
• Healthy aging 
• Mental health and wellbeing 

Dalhousie faculty in any discipline may submit applications in support of their senior undergraduate students, graduate students or postdoctoral fellows, or to host visiting students.

Awards will be made to students in support of 12- to 24-week research project placements at Dalhousie or in select counties abroad. These awards provide $6,000 in funding for research costs, student stipend, and travel/living expenses. Incoming and outgoing applicants must secure a Dalhousie faculty member as their home/host supervisor prior to applying. For the thematic call, applications can include a group of up to five students.

Full details of these awards are available here.

Any Dalhousie faculty member interested in this opportunity is asked to contact Gailene Tobin Vandenheuvel (gvandenheuvel@mitacs.ca) for more information and support in developing an application.

Deadlines

Internal: November 17, 2021 at 4:30pm. The Dal contact is erin.murphy@dal.ca

Funder: December 1, 2021 at 5pm PT (9pm AST).