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.
$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.
$475,000.00
Sep 4, 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 is entitled “BRITE-Constellation Science”.
Canadian graduate students and postdocs will be hired to put them at the front lines of astrophysical research with the BRITE (BRight Target Explorer) Constellation space satellite mission - a flotilla of six nanosatellites operated by Canada, Austria and Poland. BRITE Constellation will monitor for long stretches of time the brightness and colour variations of most of the brightest stars visible to the eyein the night sky. These stars include some of the most massive and luminous stars in the Galaxy, many of which are precursors to supernova explosions.
Students and postdocs involved in this project will contribute to unprecedented advances in our understanding of such stars and their dominant role in the 'ecology' of the Universe (the life cycles of the current and future generations of stars).
$470,962.00
Jul 31, 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 is entitled “Estimating the carbon sequestration potential of four Costa Rican ecosystems from airborne hyperspectral imagery in support of REDDplus activities”:
Airborne hyperspectral imagery is a promising tool for estimating the aboveground biomass carbon in tropical ecosystems in support of national monitoring efforts for the UN REDD+ program; (The United Nations Collaborative Program on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries). As the first carbon neutral airborne mission in Costa Rica, the objective of this project is to set a precedent in training geospatial ecologists in airborne remote sensing and scaling up to satellite platforms.
$406,993.00
Jul 31, 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 is entitled “The Manicouagan impact structure as a lunar and martian analogue site: science and technology applications”:
The Manicouagan impact structure of Quebec is the 5th largest known crater on Earth. It is ~80 km diameter and well preserved, comprising an ~ 300 m thick impact melt sheet, associated impactite lithologies and a 20 x 30 km central uplift of deep crustal rocks that are analogous to lunar anorthosites. The acquisition by the University of New Brunswick of 10 km of drill core from Manicouagan, in combination with an established, coordinated field program, facilitates analogue studies to be performed of direct benefit to lunar and martian exploration programs, as well as the training of undergraduate and graduate students in planetary geosciences and potential science instrument deployment, validation and technology development. Six research and development topics are covered: (1) the central uplift as a lunar highlands anorthosite analogue site and its tectonic structure; (2) the formation of a layered, fractionated impact-melt system in relation to better understanding the lunar and martian sample inventory; (3) the nature, mineralogy, cooling history and longevity of the impact-generated hydrothermal hot rock-water system as an analogue for the development of exobiological niches on Mars; (4) high-temperature contact metamorphism of footwall rocks beneath the melt sheet, with links to the lunar granulite suite and equivalent rocks on Mars; (5) the mechanics and structure of gravitationally-driven transient crater collapse in a complex crater, and (6) integrating remote sensing and geological field data for a complex crater. This research will contribute to lunar and martian materials characterization and the refinement of exploration technologies, including spectroscopic techniques, geophysical techniques, remote sensing and image analysis. Future use of the Manicouagan analogue site will include the field testing of these analytical technologies to enhance the science return of rover and future human missions to the Moon and Mars, including NASA's upcoming MSL rover mission.
$475,000.00
Jul 31, 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 is entitled “The CAnadIan FTir Observing Network (CAFTON): Training the Next Generation of Atmospheric Scientists”.
CAFTON is a new network of nine Fourier transform infrared spectrometers that will serve as a “ground-based
satellite” for continuous atmospheric measurements over Canada. These measurements will be integrated with the
GEOS-Chem global model and the STILT regional model to characterize atmospheric composition, determine
transport pathways, and identify pollution sources. The project will expand Canadian capacity in several areas of
direct relevance to future space missions: (1) atmospheric measurement capabilities; (2) retrieval strategies; (3)
modelling capabilities; (4) national and international partnerships, and (5) validation of satellite missions. The project
will train 12 undergraduates, eight graduate students and two postdoctoral fellows.
$474,633.00
Jul 31, 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 is entitled “Precision Reference Calibration for Dark Energy, Microwave Astronomy, and Atmospheric Physics”.
A substance called « dark energy” makes up the bulk of the universe and is driving it accelerating expansion. Modern cosmology is also built on a paradigm of an early period of rapid inflation, but the gravitational waves from this time haven't been detected. These twin problems in cosmology are limited by calibration uncertainties: in the atmospheric attenuation of light for DE, and in instrumental sensitivity for GW. In this project a new Canadian-led technique for reducing these uncertainties is proposed, using calibrated optical and microwave light sources above the atmosphere, for telescopes worldwide to use as precision references.