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.
$450,000.00
Mar 30, 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.
The Announcement of Opportunity “ Capacity Building in SS&T – Clusters Pilots” aims to contribute to the development of Future Canadian Space Capacity in order to attract, sustain and enhance the nation's critical mass of Canadian space specialists, foster Canadian space innovation, and preserve the capability of the nation space-related facilities.
More specifically, this project entitled "" PASCAL: Planetary Atmosphere and Surface Constituents Analysis Laboratory "" has the objective (s): To examine planetary materials and analogues under realistic planetary surface/atmospheric conditions. This project will build on existing expertise and greatly expand the range of planetary investigations that researchers can undertake. A new suite of robust, transportable environment chambers for planetary surface simulations will be fabricated to facilitate sample sharing. The approach used in this project will provide unprecedented insights into the behavior of geological and biological materials on planetary surfaces and in planetary atmospheres.
$475,000.00
Mar 30, 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.
The Announcement of opportunity “ Flights for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST)” aims at:
- Fostering the continuing development of a critical mass of researchers and HQP by providing a training ground for both the current and next generation of scientists and engineers;
- Supporting the development of science and technology relevant to the priorities of the CSA through the use of research platforms including stratospheric balloons, aircraft, sounding rockets, nanosatellites, cubesats, ground-based facilities and field sites.
More specifically, this project entitled "" Quantative analysis of Al-Ni, Al-Cu, Fe-C and D2 Tool Steel structures solidified under limited diffusion confidions "" has the objective (s):
- To train HQP in the planning, preparation and execution of experiments in space (PFC and ISS) as well as terrestrial supporting activities,
- For the HQP, to participate in the preparation, execution and analysis of the experiments on Raney type Al68.5Ni35.5 (Al-50wt%Ni), Al40Ni60, Al68.5Ni35.5, Al70Ni30 and Fe-C alloys, to process terrestrial samples of Fe-C alloys using a drop tube apparatus, to participate in processing of Fe-C alloys in PFCs, to characterize the processed samples using a range of techniques such as neutron diffraction, 3D micro-tomography and microscopy (SEM, TEM and EBSD), to participate with ESA HQP in the development and validation of microsegregation models of droplet solidification accounting for velocity of the growth front versus undercooling and to compare these with those from powders processed in drop tube, PFC, TEXUS and ISS,
- To construct microstructure-selection-maps with undercooling, droplet size and level of convection for the alloys under investigation.
$473,779.00
Mar 30, 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.
The Announcement of opportunity “ Flights for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST)” aims at:
- Fostering the continuing development of a critical mass of researchers and HQP by providing a training ground for both the current and next generation of scientists and engineers;
- Supporting the development of science and technology relevant to the priorities of the CSA through the use of research platforms including stratospheric balloons, aircraft, sounding rockets, nanosatellites, cubesats, ground-based facilities and field sites.
More specifically, this project entitled ""A Balloon-borne Near-UV/Visible Light Telescope and Test-bed "" has the objective(s): of providing the HQP with training in all phases of a satellite mission analogue, giving the HQP a broad view of all aspects of the design and operation of a complex instrument in a near space environment. The long term goal of the training is to produce a team of individuals with the training and experience required to work on the development of a future Canadian space mission, such as the Canadian Space Telescope.
$475,000.00
Mar 30, 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.
The Announcement of opportunity “ Flights for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST)” aims at:
- Fostering the continuing development of a critical mass of researchers and HQP by providing a training ground for both the current and next generation of scientists and engineers;
- Supporting the development of science and technology relevant to the priorities of the CSA through the use of research platforms including stratospheric balloons, aircraft, sounding rockets, nanosatellites, cubesats, ground-based facilities and field sites.
More specifically, this project entitled "" The PAyload for Remote sounding of the Atmosphere using Balloon Limb Experiments (PARABLE): A scientific training program in instrument development and data analysis to support atmospheric remote sounding "" has the following objective (s):
- To develop and fly a balloon-borne instrument payload for scientific studies of atmospheric composition and validation of satellite data sets.
- To train new atmospheric scientists in instrument development and data analysis techniques through an end-to-end experience.
- To create a multi-year atmospheric trace gas and aerosol data set at mid-latitudes by conducting regular balloon flights using the PARABLE instrument suite.
- To develop an intercomparison capacity to validate prototype and new satellite instruments by flying them together with the PARABLE instruments.
$463,509.00
Mar 30, 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.
The Announcement of opportunity “ Flights for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST)” aims at:
- Fostering the continuing development of a critical mass of researchers and HQP by providing a training ground for both the current and next generation of scientists and engineers;
- Supporting the development of science and technology relevant to the priorities of the CSA through the use of research platforms including stratospheric balloons, aircraft, sounding rockets, nanosatellites, cubesats, ground-based facilities and field sites.
More specifically, this project entitled "" The Primordial Inflation Polariztion ExploreR (PIPER) Balloon - borne survey "" has the following objective (s):
- To impart technical skills including the development of flight electronics; firmware programming; detector integration and testing skills; cryogenic design and build skills; instrument calibration experience; flight software development; mission simulation software development; test and flight data analysis skills; and systems engineering skills.
- To train HQP comprehensively in all aspects of the scientific method,
- To expose them to every aspect of the scientific method allowing them to develop hands-on experience that will prepare them for a wide range of duties in a variety of applied research and development environments including the design and execution of an experiment as well as the development of an instrument in support of physical cosmology.
$474,370.00
Mar 30, 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.
The Announcement of opportunity “ Flights for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST)” aims at:
- Fostering the continuing development of a critical mass of researchers and HQP by providing a training ground for both the current and next generation of scientists and engineers;
- Supporting the development of science and technology relevant to the priorities of the CSA through the use of research platforms including stratospheric balloons, aircraft, sounding rockets, nanosatellites, cubesats, ground-based facilities and field sites.
More specifically, this project entitled "" Instrument Development for High Resolution Atmospheric Limb Profiling "" has the objective (s): Through the development and flight of the OSIRIS-DM and ALI, to train a significant number of undergraduate and graduate students, in addition to a technician and a post-doctoral fellow, to provide them with hands-on training experience that will allow them to acquire an end-to-end perspective of the design, build, test, calibration, flight and analysis of a space science mission.
$474,524.00
Mar 30, 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.
The Announcement of opportunity “ Flights for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST)” aims at:
- Fostering the continuing development of a critical mass of researchers and HQP by providing a training ground for both the current and next generation of scientists and engineers;
- Supporting the development of science and technology relevant to the priorities of the CSA through the use of research platforms including stratospheric balloons, aircraft, sounding rockets, nanosatellites, cubesats, ground-based facilities and field sites.
More specifically, this project entitled "" Canadian Balloon Experiments for Research Education and Training (CABERET) "" has the following objective (s):
- To develop a 3-axis Search Coil Magnetometer (SCM) for flight on stratospheric balloon missions as part of a multi-instrument payload from the preliminary design phase through to launch, operations and subsequent data analysis and research,
- To train HQP in the development of flight instrumentation and software, in the Integration and Testing of NASA BARREL balloon payloads and, in supporting the data operations of the BARREL balloon flights,
- To conduct scientific research into the causes of the loss of radiation belt electrons into the atmosphere using data collected from the BARREL and CABERET balloon experiments and supporting ground-based and satellite, especially RBSP, experiments.
$69,600.00
Mar 29, 2012
The CSA is providing funding through the Research component of the Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology. In this case the CSA is supporting targeted knowledge through a ""Constraints on trace gas and reduced gas sources and flux from analog environments"" Grant to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address priorities in the future.
$66,000.00
Mar 29, 2012
The CSA is providing funding through the Research component of the Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology. In this case the CSA is supporting targeted knowledge through a ""Investigation of the role of aerosol particles in promoting heterogeneous chemistry and cloud formation in the Martian atmosphere"" Grant to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs in the future.
$150,000.00
Mar 28, 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 "" Smart materials and coating systems for space applications "" has the objective(s): To train highly qualified personnel with a focus on the processes for the synthesis of smart coating materials with controlled microstructure and performance. The development of these materials has future implications with respect to the protection of satellites and astronauts against the harsh environment of space, the thermal management of satellites, and the development of habitation technologies as well as alternative power generation sources among others.