OCI TalentEdge Internship and Fellowship
Status not published
Intake follows the Ontario fiscal year and pauses when the annual allocation is committed.
Subsidises the cost of hiring students, recent graduates or postdoctoral fellows into Ontario companies for defined R&D projects; internship values have historically been around CAD 10,000-15,000 per four-month term and fellowships up to about CAD 35,000.
You must co-fund 50%.
Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI)
public · regional
Deadline: rolling — Intake follows the Ontario fiscal year and pauses when the annual allocation is committed.
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.
You fund 50% yourself.
Who can apply
- Stage: pre_seed, seed, series_a
- R&D activity required
- Locally registered entity required
Ontario-based companies; intern must be enrolled at or recently graduated from an Ontario postsecondary institution.
How to apply
- Register on AccessOCI.
- Identify the intern or fellow and the project.
- Submit application with company cash contribution.
- Approval and placement.
What you will need
- Project description
- Intern/fellow CV
- Company matching contribution letter
Source. https://www.oc-innovation.ca/programs/talent/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked