Grants and Contributions

This youth focused initiative is implemented in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon by the Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace and Security, and Local Youth Corner Cameroon, a national youth-led organization. The project aims to improve inclusive and gender-responsive participation of women and men who are youth in formal and informal peace processes for Anglophone regions of Cameroon.

Project activities include: (1) providing technical and small-scale financial support to youth-led organizations to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate gender-responsive initiatives that support peace efforts; (2) providing opportunities to youth led organizations to engage with one another and other stakeholders on conflict affected youth experiences and role of women and men who are youth in peace efforts; (3) conducting mapping of current national and local level peace processes in Cameroon; (4) documenting and disseminating practices and successes of youth-led community peace initiatives; and (5) providing opportunities for youth led organizations to advocate with local and national peace process stakeholders for inclusive and gender-responsive youth participation in the peace process.

Through the establishment of a locally led and experienced body of youth peacebuilders with the advocacy and mediation capacities, networks, and peer support to engage national and community level peace initiatives, the project directly contributes to more inclusive participation of youth in peace processes, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution in Cameroon. This initiative directly benefits more than 3,000 Cameroonians living in the North-West and South-West regions, including women and men youth are youth, and youth leaders and youth groups, women civil society organizations leaders, and government officials.

Through this project, the organization “Terre des Hommes Italie” (TDH-IT) supports efforts to reduce the risk of juvenile delinquency, increase access to justice for women and youth detainees, and support their reintegration into society. Project activities include: (1) providing legal assistance to women and youth detainees in pre-trial detention; (2) assisting Haiti’s Prison Administrative Directorate (DAP), an arm of the Haitian National Police (HNP), implementing activities that support the reintegration of detained women and youth. This includes professional and literacy training and psychosocial support; (3) providing training, internship opportunities, and psychosocial support for marginalized young women and men from underprivileged communities in Port-au-Prince; (4) locating the families of released inmates (women and youth), and sensitizing their families and communities to reduce stigma and promote supportive environments that foster successful reintegration; and (5) supporting Haitian authorities in developing guidelines and standard operating procedures for their Specialized Foster Home program for released young offenders and at-risk youth.

Our entire technological civilization is based on the discovery by Michael Faraday in the 1830s that a changing magnetic field can generate electricity. Our finely tuned electric generation networks deliver power to homes and industry over vast regions. They are, however, vulnerable to effects associated with auroras, known as space weather. This study of such effects will improve upon existing approaches by including recently discovered unusual magnetic impulses, with unusual auroras, as well as a dense network of magnetic measuring devices near the Hydro-Québec power network. Practical insight as well as foundational knowledge about space weather will result.

This research is to advance understanding of the interaction of the 'atmosphere' of the Sun, which interacts with the upper 'atmosphere' (above 100 km) of the Earth. These interactions cause space weather which may have adverse effects on our modern technology. This research will improve our understanding of how high frequency radio waves propagate through the upper atmosphere or ionosphere. Radio waves are essential for communications in northern Canada and for polar commercial airline flights. Better understanding will minimise adverse effects on radio communications for society through analysing and modelling observations obtained from the Canadian scientific satellite mission ePOP/CASSIOPE/Swarm E.

This project aims to support the hiring of a finance manager to improve the firm’s financial structure for financial reporting and overall firm strategy.

Building on the successful demonstration of a compact and low-cost terahertz (THz) spectrometer capable of generating and detecting frequencies from 0.3 to 6 THz, this project will combine this small footprint configuration with a recently demonstrated sensitive THz detection technique based on nonlinear optics, spectral filtering and single-photon detection. The ultimate goal is to demonstrate an ultra-sensitive photonics?based wireless receiver that operates at frequencies above 0.3 THz to enable short- to medium-range 6G communication speeds and beyond. Patterned phase gratings on nonlinear crystals will be incorporated into the design of the detection system, maximizing the collection efficiency of the THz radiation. A demonstrator of a sensitive and compact THz receiver is anticipated to take place at the end of this project. Additionally, with the University of Ottawa’s industry partner, the project will determine how to most efficiently take this technology to market

Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative

Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative

Development of high voltage cathode materials based on layered oxides and spinels Project Description Summary: The project will develop new high voltage cathode materials above 4V that contain Ni as the main element to identify a new chemistry for a cathode material produced for industry relevant validation (gram → kilogram), and identify, synthesize and preliminary test LiNi1-xMxO2 cathode materials with single and multi “M” dopants: • Gram-scale synthesis, electrochemical techniques, advanced structural materials characterization and preliminary battery performance to understand the materials structure/property/performance relationships. • Choose materials using MAP and density functional theory modeling, preliminarily predict the most plausible material chemistry and structure for next steps, and evaluate the new materials feasibility for scalability and potential market penetration. • Validate results using advanced and operando electrochemical techniques and scale up materials synthesis gram → kilogram. • Investigate up to three battery chemistry generations with a feedback loop based on the above analysis, material characterization and battery performance and modify materials coating with protective layers and enhanced electrolyte formulations

Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative