Becoming an M2PI Sponsor
Why Sponsor M2PI?
M2PI creates value at multiple levels. Sponsors help make it possible for emerging mathematical scientists to gain industry-relevant experience while enabling organizations to benefit from quantitative insight, modelling expertise, and data-driven problem-solving. Click on the document below to see some of the benefits of becoming an M2PI sponsor.
By sponsoring M2PI, your organization helps:
- Expand access to work-integrated learning opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers
- Strengthen the connection between advanced mathematical research and real-world application
- Support the development of future talent equipped to work across industry, government, and non-profit sectors
- Increase the reach and impact of a program that helps organizations explore innovative solutions to complex challenges
What Your Support Enables
- Sponsor contributions help sustain and grow the program by supporting:
- Trainee Teams — enabling more students and postdoctoral fellows to participate
- Program Delivery — supporting the professional training, coordination, and mentorship that make the program successful
- Capstone Experience — strengthening the final project and presentation experience for trainees and partners
- Additional sponsorship also helps expand participation, increase partner engagement, and broaden the program’s impact across sectors.
Why It Matters
Organizations across Canada face increasingly complex challenges involving data, uncertainty, optimization, forecasting, risk, and decision-making. M2PI helps address these needs by preparing mathematical talent to work beyond academia and by creating opportunities for organizations to engage with fresh, analytical perspectives.
Your sponsorship supports more than a single program cycle. It helps build long-term capacity for innovation, collaboration, and talent development.
Ways to Engage
Organizations can support M2PI in different ways:
- As a sponsor — helping sustain and expand the program
- As a project partner — submitting a real-world challenge for trainee teams to work on
- As both — supporting the program while also engaging directly with its talent and project model Sponsorship is open to organizations that want to contribute to M2PI’s growth, whether or not they are submitting a project challenge.
M2PI sponsorships are managed by the University of British Columbia on behalf of M2PI and PIMS. The “online” button above will automatically direct your sponsorship to the M2PI program, but if you are sponsoring by phone/mail, please identify the sponsorship target as “Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) Donations Fund T206 M2PI Sponsor”.
All sponsorship donations are processed by UBC who will also issue the corresponding tax receipts. All funds will directly support the Math to Power Industry (M2PI).