Mitacs internships for Yukon COVID-19 recovery
“Yukon. Economic Development”
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Maximum Eligible Amount
Government Grant
Fund Type
Through the Mitacs Accelerate program, this initiative supports collaborative research between businesses, non-profit organizations or municipalities, interns, and faculty supervisors — providing cost-effective access to researchers, resources, and project planning.
Through the Mitacs Accelerate program, this initiative supports collaborative research between businesses, non-profit organizations or municipalities, interns, and faculty supervisors — providing cost-effective access to researchers, resources, and project planning.
These internships focus on economic recovery priorities identified by our Yukon partners, and the connection of those priorities to planning and decision-making for businesses, communities, and organizations. Broad thematic areas include:
- Social, cultural, economic, environmental, and mental and physical health impacts of the pandemic
- Governance and sustainable community development
- Education and knowledge mobilization
- Sustainable communities: water quality management, landfill management, alternative fuels and environmental conservancy
- Emerging economic opportunities: mitigating challenges for Indigenous procurement, not-for-profit sustainability, tourism, culture and creative industries
- Food security: supporting local food production
- Mining: water remediation, land re-vegetation, determining and mitigating mine-specific climate change impacts
- Evolving opportunities and challenges: new cross-cutting, integrative, solution-driven research, technology and innovation that support the growth of an economic sector, adoption of new technologies and processes
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