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Building the Triticale Community through Collaboration: Student Training Opportunities with AAFC

Canadian Government Programs

• Scholarship program run by Global Affairs Canada
• Specific scholarships for each country
• Very competitive and high profile
• Not always align with AAFC programs

https://w05.international.gc.ca/scholarships- bourses/scholarshipnoncdn- boursenoncdn.aspx?lang=fra&menu_id=24

MITACS-Accelerate

• Government + Industry Partnership
• Paired with many Canadian

Universities

• Non-Canadian graduate students

and Post-Doctoral fellows permitted

• Internships are renewable
• Student must spend 50% of time

with company https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/ac celerate

MITACS-Globalink

• Globalink Research Program
• 12 week internship at a Canadian University
• Undergraduate students eligible from :

Australia, Brazil, France, China, Germany, India, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, or Ukraine

• Application deadline each year

– 2018 call opens in July

• Also allows students to return to Canada to

complete further graduate degrees

• 2015-750 undergraduate interns were

accepted https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/gl

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Collaborative Agreement

• Partnership where AAFC and other organization share knowledge

and expertise

– Eg. Canadian germplasm sent to a location to be evaluated in a novel way (stripe rust, novel abiotic stress testing)

• Intern sent to Canada to learn a skill or complete research in a lab

at Lethbridge

– Applied studies student (affiliated with a University) – Visiting student agreement (affiliated with a University) – Visiting student agreement with AAFC

• Please contact Jamie Larsen for more information:

jamie.larsen@agr.gc.ca

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