Mitacs--India Globalink Research Internship

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The PIMS–Mitacs Globalink Research Internship (GRI) program provides faculty at eligible PIMS member universities with an opportunity to host high-achieving international undergraduate students for a 12-week, full-time, in-person summer research internship in Canada.

The program aims to support meaningful research experiences for emerging scholars while building lasting research and training connections between PIMS institutions and international universities and students. Internships give students the opportunity to contribute to focused research projects under the supervision of Canadian faculty, while supervisors can engage with talented students who may become future graduate students or research collaborators.

Mitacs provides internship funding and program support, while host supervisors provide research supervision, workspace, institutional access, and the project-specific resources required for the internship. PIMS coordinates the project submission, candidate review and matching process across its network, working with participating institutions and faculty supervisors to facilitate successful placements.

Each annual program call provides details on the participating international student cohort, eligibility requirements, available placements, timelines, and the application and matching process.

2027 Research Projects & Call for Students

This program aims to bring outstanding undergraduate students from India to Canada for a focused, twelve-week summer research internship. It pairs these students with faculty at PIMS member universities across Western Canada for hands-on, mentored research. Below, you'll find this year's proposed research projects, spanning fields from pure mathematics and cryptography to cosmology, structural engineering, and biomedical signal processing. 

View 2027 PIMS Research Projects

2027 PIMS Faculty Project Call

PIMS invites faculty at eligible Canadian PIMS member universities to submit research projects for summer 2027 through the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship (GRI), as part of the new Mitacs–All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) partnership. PIMS expects to support approximately 10 internship placements across its network in 2027.

Each intern undertakes a 12-week, full-time, in-person research project under the supervision of a faculty member at a PIMS host institution in Canada. Mitacs provides the internship funding and program support; no funding contribution is required from the supervisor.

(Call for projects in 2027 closed Oct.30)

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Questions

For questions about the PIMS call or the local process at your institution, contact your PIMS Site Director or co-director-careers@pims.math.ca.