Deadline: 7 February 2025
The PASSERELLE is excited to announce its call for POR-Mitacs Fellowships Program.
PASSERELLE, SPOR National Training Entity aims to collectively grow, support, and sustain the capacity for a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and innovative patient-oriented research (POR) environment capable of addressing evolving healthcare questions and contributing to enhancing patients’ healthcare experience and well-being.
The POR-Mitacs Fellowship Program supports opportunities that:
- Are inclusive of patients and actively solicit and recognize the value of diverse voices and involvement through all levels of the research process.
- Provide experiential learning opportunities to enhance POR skills and competencies.
- Are committed to capacity building and bi-directional learning.
Benefits
- Fellows will be onboarded into PASSERELLE’S POR community and provided access to additional training opportunities and resources. They will have access to discussion boards with peers in the POR-Mitacs fellowship program and other POR programs, tailored events and activities, and a network of mentors.
- Throughout the course of the one-year fellowship, fellows will meet to foster collaboration, support mentorship, and engage in professional development and capacity building.
- Fellows will engage in a 6-month placement with their selected partner organization.
- All fellows will be expected to present their projects at a showcase event.
Funding Information
- A fellowship stipend of up to $50,000 maximum that include a matching contribution from the selected partner organization and Mitacs.
- This also includes a $5,000 supplement from PASSERELLE in the form of reimbursement for participation in relevant capacity building activities (e.g. training, outreach or event, patient or public engagement activities).
Eligibility Criteria
- Full-time undergraduate, college and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from all disciplines, interested in POR, from an eligible Canadian academic institution.
- Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and international students over the age of 18.
For more information, visit PASSERELLE.
