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.
$172,788.00
Apr 1, 2020
For-profit organization
Innovation Assistance Program
951736
The funding provided from the IAP program is to assist innovative, early stage small-and medium-sized enterprises that are unable to access existing COVID-19 business support.
$457,246.00
Apr 1, 2020
Academia
OpenMAP: A software for self-driving laboratories
951756
Autonomous laboratories integrate automated experimentation, artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance computing (HPC) into a single platform to substantially accelerate scientific discovery.
$50,820.00
Apr 1, 2020
For-profit organization
Innovation Assistance Program
952089
The funding provided from the IAP program is to assist innovative, early-stage small- and medium-sized enterprises that are unable to access existing COVID-19 business support.
$750,000.00
Apr 1, 2020
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Innovation and Economic Intelligence (Interactive Tours and Information Research)
954583
The project aims to support and advise SMEs in the development of better innovation practices in order to increase the commercial success of their innovations.
$457,246.00
Apr 1, 2020
Academia
OpenMAP: A software for self-driving laboratories
951756
Autonomous laboratories integrate automated experimentation, artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance computing (HPC) into a single platform to substantially accelerate scientific discovery.
$82,500.00
Mar 31, 2020
Academia
A New Framework for Safeguarding the Security & Privacy of Precision Healthcare Data using Big Data Analysis and Homomorphic Encryption
947426
The purpose of the current project is to develop an Artificial Intelligence-based framework that will take as input precision health related data, such as the human genomic sequence, and produce a different representation that is privacy-proven and can be appended safely to patient’s EHR.
$285,000.00
Mar 31, 2020
Academia
Advanced autonomous mobile manipulation for flexible manufacturing
947565
This project will focus on the development and validation of a unified multi-objective control system and trajectory planner to improve the performance and robustness of autonomous mobile manipulators for tasks such as force or visual servoing. In addition, artificial intelligence techniques will be explored for the optimization of the forward and inverse kinematic models of the autonomous mobile platform.
$299,880.00
Mar 30, 2020
Academia
Artificial intelligence protein design for drugs and gene therapies
947523
Inferring the structural properties of a protein from its amino acid sequence is a challenging yet important problem in biology. Discovering these structures is important, since they determine a wide array of protein functions. However, experimental structure determination is costly and, as a result, atomic structures have only been determined for a tiny fraction of known proteins. The objective of this project is to develop an AI system capable of predicting protein-protein interaction and physicochemical properties of proteins solely from their amino acid sequences without any recourse to expensive, time-consuming and computationally prohibitive methods such as homology modelling, crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance, molecular dynamics and macromolecular docking. The system, will allow for the design of proteins with specific properties by means of AI-based reverse engineering.
$423,847.31
Mar 30, 2020
International (non-government)
Understanding non-involvement in terrorism: why most radicals never become terrorists
21053
The purpose of this contribution will provide insights into non-involvement in terrorism. The research will seek to ask why most people who radicalize never actually become terrorists. What distinguishes this ‘control group’ from those who do cross this threshold, and understanding these differences can help policymakers and practitioners more effectively prevent and respond to terrorism.