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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 obalink-research-internship

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 5