Grants are similar to scholarships. Both are terms for students that, unlike loans, do not have to be repaid. So, what’s the distinction? Grants are typically gifts given by large institutions such as the federal government, states, and colleges. Grants are nearly always based on need and are dependent on the student completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. Grants, like scholarships, are extremely competitive, so apply early to increase your chances of winning. The most generous awards are divided into federal, state, and collegiate levels, although there are other funding sources besides these three main categories. Students with specific skills or characteristics are eligible for a variety of scholarships.
Business Strategy Program by Mitacs
A $10,000 or $15,000 scholarship allows the best students – from college students to undergrads, grads, postdocs, and recent graduates – to participate in a joint internship. Students apply their technical experience to your business difficulties to help your innovation activities, whether an operations issue or you wish to safeguard your intellectual property. Students from all areas, including law, STEM, social sciences, and humanities, are eligible for the award.
Applicants Who Are Eligible:
- College students, undergrads, graduates, postdocs, and even recent graduates are welcome.
- All enterprises and eligible non-profit organizations are welcome.
Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Contact:
- Contact Name: Mitacs
- E-mail Address: https://discover.mitacs.ca/business-strategy/e-2-lightbox.html
Odyssey – Language Assistant Program
Odyssey – Language Assistant Program is a bilingual, paid work experience that allows post-secondary students to go to a different province. English-speaking students can work in Quebec or New Brunswick, whereas French-speaking students can work in another province.
Eligible applicants: Students must meet the following requirements to be eligible:
- have strong oral and written language skills in either English or French (proficiency must be as strong as if it were your first language);
- be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada (student visa holders are not eligible); and
- Having completed at least one full year of post-secondary study by the start of your employment term and within the last ten years, Students from Quebec must have completed two years of college or one year of university. Students wishing to study outside of Canada must submit a formal examination of their academic credentials.
Odyssey has no age restrictions or second-language proficiency requirements. Basic oral abilities in a second language are regarded as advantageous.
Submission Deadline: February 28 of every year
Contact
- Contact Name: Odyssey
- Phone Number: 1-877-866-4242 (toll-free)
Co-ops and Internships by the University of Manitoba
Many University of Manitoba co-operative education programmes allow students, industry, and the university to collaborate in meaningful collaboration. Students can supplement their academic education with paid work experience in their topic of interest. Employers can find competent students to help with projects, process improvement, and day-to-day operations.
Eligible applicants
- A student enrolled in a co-op education programme.
- An employer who accepts a co-op student into their organization.
Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Contact:
- Contact Name: University of Manitoba
- Phone Number: 1-800-432-1960 (North America)
The Magnet Student Work Placement Program
The Magnet Student Work Placement Program (SWPP) brings companies, students, and stakeholders from post-secondary schools to develop high-quality work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities.
The programme offers wage subsidies to firms that hire post-secondary students for paid work experiences. Students gain quality job experience, which allows them to get employment in their chosen fields of study.
Eligible applicants:
Employers
- Non-profit organizations, registered Canadian corporations, hospitals, long-term care facilities, and post-secondary institutions (universities, colleges, and polytechnics).
- Governments at the federal, provincial, territory, and municipal levels and federal and provincial Crown enterprises do not qualify.
- Financial institutions will no longer be eligible for SWPP funding as of October 15, 2020; please see this list for more information.
- Are you willing to pay the student for the role?
- Are willing to supply a post-secondary education student with a high-quality learning experience.
- Has the financial means to pay the student in full for the placement term (the wage subsidy will be administered after receiving the final pay stub at the end of the placement).
In response to COVID-19 and its impact on business operating costs and timeframes, the Government of Canada has also made the following amendments to the programme:
- Employers will be able to postpone placement start dates to avoid rescinding placements.
- Employers can apply for assistance before deciding which students to recruit.
- Students will have the option of working from home.
- Post-secondary institutions (universities, colleges, and polytechnics) can now serve as the employer of record to provide students with relevant placements.
- Hospitals and long-term care facilities are also recordable employers.
- An additional 1,500 positions have been set aside for companies in Canada’s healthcare sector.
Students
- Enrolment in a recognized Canadian post-secondary institution (part-time or full-time enrollment in college, bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral programmes).
- Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or anyone granted refugee status under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. International pupils do not qualify.
- Undertaking a placement recognized by the student’s institution as a Work-Integrated Learning component in connection with a course, degree, certificate, diploma, or other recognized programme offered by the institution. The placement can be mandatory or voluntary, for credit or without credit.
Submission Deadline: First come, first-serve basis
Contact
- Contact Name: Magnet
- E-mail Address: https://swpp.magnet.today/#contact
AgriTalent by the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council
Growing Opportunities will provide agricultural and non-agricultural students with Work Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunities in the agriculture business. Agricultural employers are urged to hire students with different academic backgrounds since they may be eligible for a wage subsidy of up to $7,500 per student.
Applicants Who Are Eligible:
Eligibility of Employers:
- Registered Canadian businesses and not-for-profit organizations in the Agriculture Industry, as well as post-secondary institutions (universities, colleges, and polytechnics)
- Willing to hire students from both agriculture and non-agriculture backgrounds
- Willing to hire post-secondary students from under-represented groups such as women, Indigenous communities, students with disabilities, and newcomers to Canada
- Have the financial means to pay the student in full for the period of the placement (the wage subsidy will be administered after receiving the final pay stub at the end of the placement)
Eligibility for Students:
- Enrolled in a recognized Canadian post-secondary institution
- Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or persons to whom refugee protection has been granted under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
- Legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations
Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Contact:
- Contact Name: Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council
- Phone Number: 613-745-7457
- E-mail Address: [email protected]
Student Work Placement Program (SWPP) by BioTalent Canada
The Student Work Placement Program (SWPP) is designed to help students enrolled in STEM, healthcare, business, and other disciplines at Canadian post-secondary schools become more job-ready.
Employers can use the application to do the following:
- Obtain funding to hire students
- Please make use of a pool of workers ready to improve their talents.
- Create new talent for future hiring needs.
Please remember that all participants will have free access to the new Essential and Technical Skills Fundamentals training programmes.
Eligible applicants:
To be eligible for the programme, you must either:
- The position must be focused on biotechnology or healthcare, or the employer must be focused on biotechnology or healthcare.
Participants/students must meet the following requirements:
- Enrolled in a Canadian post-secondary education institution as a full-time or part-time student
- A Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or anyone who has been granted refugee protection is legally permitted to work in Canada under applicable provincial or territory legislation and regulations.
- pursuing a degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), business, or any other programme
Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Contact:
- Contact Name: Colleen
- Phone Number: 1-866-243-2472, ext. 218
- E-mail Address: [email protected]
Science Horizons – Clean Tech Internship Program
The CICan Clean Tech Internship Program connects potential interns with eligible firms working to improve Canada’s environmental and economic results. Clean Tech is a broad category of occupations and industries that spans numerous industries and sectors of the economy. The term “clean” relates to the environment, which includes, but is not limited to, sustainable development, greening industrial and agricultural operations, alternative energy and efficiencies, recycling/composting/waste reduction, and industry/businesses working on environmental advancements. The Tech portion of the word relates to technology; interns are part of a larger group of students known as science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students. Clean Tech Internships will be work placements to advance innovations that address environmental concerns.
Applicants Who Are Eligible
Employer:
- Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), corporations, and trade associations
- Institutions of higher learning
- Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) (NGO)
- Aboriginal organizations or groups
- Municipal and territorial administrations
- Governments, institutions, agencies, or Crown Corporations in each province or territory
Intern:
- Recent graduates (within the last three years) of a post-secondary STEM degree, no older than 30 years old at the start of the internship
- Citizens of Canada, permanent residents of Canada, and people granted refugee status in Canada.
- Legally permitted to work in accordance with applicable provincial and federal legislation and regulations.
- They were not provided with job insurance during their internship.
- For at least six months, you must be available to work.
Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Contact
- Contact Name: Colleges and Institutes Canada
- Phone Number: 613-746-2222
Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP)
The Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) is a School to Work programme that allows students in Grade 11 or Grade 12 to explore and work in apprenticeship occupations through the Cooperative Education programme.
While finishing their secondary school diplomas, students can become registered apprentices and work towards becoming qualified journeypersons in a specialized trade.
Applicants Who Are Eligible:
Students must meet the following requirements to be eligible for OYAP:
- be at least 16 years old; have completed 16 credits toward the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) prior to beginning the programme; be enrolled full-time during the programme
- be working toward completing all OSSD requirements
- Students take part in OYAP by enrolling in a Cooperative Education programme.
Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Contact
- Contact Name: Government of Ontario – Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade Communications Branch
- Phone Number: 1-800-387-5656
International Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge
The online competition aims at AI experts in machine learning and computer vision. Teams must have a minimum of two members, and a maximum of 200 teams will be admitted.
A participant may only be a member of one team and subscribe once. The organizers urge participation by teams from various nations and continents, the collaboration of specialists from various start-ups/companies with students and researchers from universities/research centres, and involvement with horticulture professionals, but this is not required.
Eligible applicants:
The online competition aims at AI experts in machine learning and computer vision. Teams must have a minimum of two members, and a maximum of 200 teams will be admitted.
A participant may only be a member of one team and subscribe once. The organizers urge participation by teams from various nations and continents, the collaboration of specialists from various start-ups/companies with students and researchers from universities/research centres, and involvement with horticulture professionals, but this is not required.
Date of Submission: The Online Challenge will be accessible for registration from April 15 to May 20.
Contact
- Contact Name: Tencent and WUR
- E-mail Address: [email protected]
Conclusion
Canada may be one of the most desirable places for international students, but studying here is not inexpensive. So often, students are compelled to go grants where they can find new opportunities at no cost and achieve their goals.
Contact your local Canadian consulate for additional information about any grant funding opportunities in Canada. You can also visit the official comprehensive guide to grants in Canada for more general information.
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