Mitacs helps to empower Indigenous innovation in Canada
Like companies everywhere right now, Indigenous-owned businesses and organizations need to innovate in order to grow and achieve their strategic goals. But the tools you need to do that require talent, time, and budget, and finding the ideal combination of these three elements can be a challenge.
Mitacs can help with our Indigenous Pathways. We will work with you to find the right academic talent to achieve your innovation goals. Projects are a minimum of four-months in duration – they can be longer – and now your contribution is only 25% of the cost of projects that have an Indigenous partner organization and/or an intern who is Indigenous.
Research team’s breakthrough work helps revitalize Indigenous languages
Mateen Hessami, member of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma, a newly minted Master’s graduate in Biology at The University of British Columbia – Okanagan, is supporting Splatsin in documenting their rich Indigenous knowledge, values, and perspectives related to protecting the Revelstoke Complex caribou – and then sharing that insight with Western scientists and decision-makers. Supported by Mitacs, Hessami helped facilitate a three-day workshop in April 2022 to bring Splatsin Elders, council members and community hunters together with federal and provincial government caribou experts, conservation officers and academics.
Research team’s breakthrough work helps revitalize Indigenous languages
Four Indigenous-led interns at the Sanyakola Foundation build a framework to help recover Kwak’wala – one of the world’s endangered Indigenous languages.
A community-based approach to managing impacts in northwest BC
Simon Fraser University students collaborate with the Metlakatla Stewardship Society on a management program that equips the Metlakatla First Nation to make well-informed decisions on the cumulative effects of resource exploration within their territory.
Mitacs Podcast Leading Women Episode
The Edge podcast brings together a panel of leading women from across the Canadian innovation spectrum to discuss their experiences on the ground. We couldn’t be in better company to explore these questions and many more.
About Mitacs
Mitacs is a not-for-profit organization that fosters growth and innovation in Canada by solving business challenges with research solutions from academic institutions. Mitacs is funded by the Government of Canada along with the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, Innovation PEI, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan and the Government of Yukon.
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