Grants and Contributions

Financial support is provided based on the event's goal of enhancing the scholarly and scientific foundation of Canada, and the community’s collective capacity to contribute to a better world. It will increase the visibility for the NRC and its scholarly contributions and provide knowledge mobilization opportunities for early and mid-career researchers.

Through hosting a series of workshops targeting important themes that address radicalization to violence, the project aims to create a safe space for youth, supported by adult practitioners, to come together, increase understandings, and learn the skills to counter radicalization to violence, and inform policy. 

The project aims to improve access to quality education in Somalia for marginalized adolescent girls between the ages of 10 to 19, including nomadic girls, girls with disabilities and affected by conflict and violence. To encourage the enrolment and retention of girls, the project works with religious leaders, parents, men and boys to address barriers that hamper the demand for and access to education for girls, while strengthening the capacity of the government, schools and teachers to provide inclusive and gender-responsive education for girls.
Project activities include: (1) renovating schools to improve water and sanitation for menstrual hygiene management and the re-integration of out-of-school girls into the education system; (2) providing scholarships for the most marginalized girls to cover tuition and basic school supplies; (3) supporting girls’ empowerment forums in schools that promote girls’ rights and agency as well as boys’ forums working on positive masculinity and gender equality; (4) training teachers, with a specific emphasis on female teachers,) on quality, inclusive, gender-sensitive curriculum delivery, including improved methodologies in literacy and numeracy teaching and techniques to support crisis-affected students facing mental health issues; and (5) supporting women’s rights organizations and adolescent girls’ organizations in their advocacy for girls’ quality education.

Engage Grants (EGP) are designed to give innovative companies that operate from a Canadian base access to the unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities available at Canadian universities and colleges. These grants are intended to foster the development of new research partnerships by supporting short-term research and development projects aimed at addressing a company-specific problem; that is, a problem related to the company’s core competencies or activities. The simplified application and decision processes enable university and college researchers to quickly undertake new research collaborations that extend academic expertise to these problems. The mutually beneficial projects are expected to result in economic benefits to the company and to Canada and build impactful longer term collaborations between the applicant and the company.

AGvisorPRO will collect data to develop software that uses machine learning to make matches between questions and people with the expertise to answer those questions specifically for agriculture.

Acquisition of equipment : The project aims to support a move toward Enterprise 4.0 and thus increase the competitiveness and production capacity of a company specializing in steel, aluminum and stainless steel machining.

The project is comprised of three components: foundations for learning; advancing gender equality through civil society; and advancing Canadian champions for development.

Project activities include: (1) providing training to 340 farmers from 17 villages on improving planting techniques and gender; (2) providing them with fonio (a type of cereal) seeds and agricultural inputs, including innovative soil nutrient field test kits; (3) training women-led cooperatives on how to create and market biomass briquettes (for fuel), and use grain/cereal husking machines; (4) training community members on forest product harvesting and bush fire prevention; (5) seeding 18,000 indigenous plants; and (6) promoting agroforestry and the use of an indigenous tree species to enhance forest carbon sinks.

The objectives of the program are to:.•Support greater influence and control over Indigenous ELCC programs and services by Indigenous peoples;.•Improve quality and accessibility of Indigenous ELCC with an emphasis on cultural and language content;.•Support a more holistic and integrated system of quality ELCC services for Indigenous peoples; and.•Adapt and improve existing federal programs to be more flexible, adaptable and horizontal across federal departments as a first step prior to transferring control..

The objectives of the program are to:.•Support greater influence and control over Indigenous ELCC programs and services by Indigenous peoples;.•Improve quality and accessibility of Indigenous ELCC with an emphasis on cultural and language content;.•Support a more holistic and integrated system of quality ELCC services for Indigenous peoples; and.•Adapt and improve existing federal programs to be more flexible, adaptable and horizontal across federal departments as a first step prior to transferring control..