Grants and Contributions

This project is to develop a high-efficiency floating solar tracking PV platform which can be scaled up to provide community-level power generation in order to minimize the environmental impact of the system while providing benefits of carbon sequestration and increased biodiversity through the addition of kelp/seaweed or shellfish farming.

The Project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the Firm.

To create a handheld system that uses hyperspectral sensors to accurately identify rocks that contain the raw materials required for the development of clean technology.

The project consists in the development of energy management components for electric and hybrid electric UAV applications. The goal is to increase the flight time, durability and safety of the system. The latter will be achieved by considering flights in extreme conditions, i.e. in the extreme cold typical of a Canadian environment.

The IWK Health Centre provides single-point access to the expertise, equipment, support services, clinicians, and patient populations needed to explore and validate potential new medical technologies as well as potential new therapeutic and diagnostic technologies. This project will provide access to IWK’s highly specialized and unique clinical resources to benefit the needs of Canadian innovation SME companies. These services will strengthen the innovation R&D activity, resulting in accelerated time to successful commercialization.

The new engineering graduate will be trained in practical process engineering skills as applied to our Pulp / Green Chemistry projects. Areas of skills training will be:
- Process flow sheet development (M&E balances, software training)
- P&ID development and understanding
- Process safety (Hazop, relief study)

Technology areas that the graduate will work on will be:
- Tall oil processing from Western Canadian Kraft mills to create a renewable feedstock to a local oil refinery.
- Kraft lignin extraction and processing (LignoForce). Upcoming work will be engineering studies for potential lignin plants in Spain and Western Canada.

Support provided to CSPC to support their annual conference with the goal to present a comprehensive, multi-sectoral, and interdisciplinary forum for addressing emerging and critical issues of science and innovation policy.

The key objetive of the Womens Employment Readiness Pilot Program is to:

• test pre-employment and skills development supports. These supports include foundational and transferable skills training (including literacy and essential skills or the Skills for Success Model) and wrap-around supports. Projects serve 1 or more of the 4 identified target groups.
  o racialized women and/or Indigenous women
  o women with disabilities
  o women from the LGBTQ2 community
  o women with prolonged detachment from the labour force

• test models to improve workplace inclusivity, where an employer is included in the project. For 1 or more of the target groups, projects would work with employers to improve:
  o access to employment, or
  o retention in the workplace

The Canadian District United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (UBC) project will provide and test pre-employment and skills development supports. This project will focus on foundational and transferable skills training such as literacy and essential skills or the Skills for Success Model, and provide wrap-around supports such as counseling, income supports, transportation, and work-appropriate clothing. The UBC, through Sisters in the Brotherhood (SIB), will work with employers to improve access to employment and retention in the workplace for women in trades.

The Apprenticeship Service’s objective is to encourage and support employers (i.e. small and medium-sized enterprises [SMEs] to hire first-year apprentices, particularly key groups, in construction and manufacturing Red Seal trades across Canada. This will help first-year apprentices connect with employment opportunities at SMEs, giving them the hands-on experience and supports that are required to succeed in the skilled trades. The Apprenticeship Service also aims to improve the participation and success of key groups in skilled trades training and careers.