Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$8,713,989.02
Jan 4, 2013
Canada's annual assessed contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA) General Budget under the Canada/ESA Cooperation Agreement, for the calendar year 2013.
$49,500.00
Dec 12, 2012
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
More specifically, this project entitled ""Skeletal muscle gene expression and post-transcriptional regulation during bedrest with and without countermeasures"" has the objective (s): to describe and analyze systematically the nature and magnitude of changes seen in gene expression in skeletal muscles from humans subjected to bedrest.
$987,282.00
Nov 21, 2012
Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) Program: The following contribution has been awarded under the European Space Agency (ESA) Contribution Program pursuant the Cooperation Agreement signed between the Government of Canada and the European Space Agency (ESA). The ARTES Program is an optional program of the European Space Agency. The ARTES Program activities are aimed at supporting the Research and Development (R&D) efforts of the European and Canadian industry in the area of Satellite Communications.
$321,990.00
Nov 21, 2012
GMES Space Component Programme (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security/ Surveillance mondiale pour l'environnement et la s‚curit‚). The following contribution has been awarded under the European Space Agency (ESA) Contribution Program pursuant the Cooperation Agreement signed between the Government of Canada and the European Space Agency (ESA). The overall objective of the GMES initiative is to support Europe's goals regarding sustainable development and global governance of the environment by providing timely and quality data, information, services and knowledge. The GMES Space Component aims at full operational provision of satellite data for GMES services and national uses
$18,725,012.00
Nov 21, 2012
Earth Observation Envelope Program (EOEP). The following contribution has been awarded under the European Space Agency (ESA) Contribution Program pursuant the Cooperation agreement signed between the Government of Canada and ESA. The Program EOEP is an optional Program of ESA. The purpose of the EOEP program is to develop our knowledge of Earth and to preserve the Earth and its environment. EOEP supports science oriented Earth Explorer Missions, and early phases of Earth Watch user-driven Earth Observation missions.
$1,550,000.00
Nov 21, 2012
General Support Technology Program (GSTP): The following contribution has been awarded under the European Space Agency (ESA) Contribution Program pursuant the Cooperation Agreement signed between the Government of Canada and the European Space Agency (ESA). The GSTP program is a space Research and Development (R&D) program of the European Space Agency. The GSTP activities are aimed at the pre-development and, if needed, the space qualification of identified critical technologies required by future space projects.
$4,650,000.00
Nov 21, 2012
European Program for Life and Physical Sciences and Applications in Space (ELIPS): The following contribution has been awarded under the European Space Agency (ESA) Contribution Program pursuant the Cooperation Agreement signed between the Government of Canada and the European Space Agency (ESA). The ELIPS Program allows Europe to capitalize on its investments into the ISS infrastructure and also to use independent mission platform assets in order to enable world leading contributions to progress in the areas of : Fundamental research, in both physical and life sciences; Applied Research, and industry driven Research and Development (R&D); Preparation of Human Exploration of space; Development of advanced technologies to support the optimum utilization of ISS and future space infrastructures; and Education.
$630,100.00
Nov 1, 2012
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
This project entitled "" SWARM Science Support "" will allow the University of Calgary scientists who developed the electric field instrument on board of the 3 Swarm satellites to realize the full scientific potential of Canada's participation in the mission, to promote and facilitate trainee involvement in the scientific analysis of the data, and its scientific use in general.
$138,000.00
Sep 17, 2012
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) provides international coordination of climate research.
The implementation of its program relies entirely on secretariat support provided through International Project Offices (IPOs) of its core projects, which are funded at a national level. This grant will support the SPARC IPO as well as the new crosscutting WCRP Polar Climate Predictability Initiative.
$179,412.00
Sep 6, 2012
The Canadian Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII) was launched on NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite in 1991 and operated until 2003, acquiring data on winds and airglow emission rates in the atmosphere between 80 and 300 km but the acquired data had been analyzed only up to 1997. It is now proposed to generate the total dataset.