{"id":3992,"date":"2012-06-12T00:55:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T00:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2012-12-11T07:04:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T07:04:24","slug":"industrial-research-and-development-internships-in-canada-irdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=3992","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Research and Development Internships in Canada (IRDI)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Industrial R&D Internship (IRDI) program aims at creating opportunities for skilled graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to solve private-sector challenges and gain valuable industry experience by linking them with businesses that foster and use their talents. As a result, the program increases the S&T orientation of businesses and creates new opportunities for highly qualified personnel.<\/p>\n

The IRDI program\u2019s goal is to introduce 1,000 internships per year. Targeting all academic disciplines, the program, which began in 2007, supports collaborative projects involving graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, their supervising professors, and industry partners. Companies share the cost of hosting the interns, with additional funding obtained from provincial, academic, and other partners.<\/p>\n

MITACS-Accelerate connects businesses with graduate and postdoctoral students who apply their specialized skills to real-world research challenges. Students have the opportunity to translate their skills from theory into practice, while businesses gain a competitive advantage by accessing high-quality research expertise. For more information, visit\u00a0\"This\u00a0www.mitacsaccelerate.ca<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Connect Canada is a national, five-year, federally funded internship program that links Canadian companies with graduate students for research placements in the manufacturing, green technology and other key economic sectors. Regardless of location, Connect Canada interns apply the latest in research methods to a company\u2019s most pressing research and development (R&D) issues. Companies gain a cost-effective way to leverage research budgets and in-house capabilities, while interns gain practical industry experience that enhances their graduate studies. Connect Canada is managed by AUTO21 Inc. and the University of Windsor Centre for Career Education, and its $5\u00a0million budget is funded through the Government of Canada\u2019s Industrial R&D Internships program. Please visit\u00a0\"This\u00a0www.connectcanadainternships.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Impacts of the IRDI program<\/h2>\n