Grants and Contributions

Develop digital adoption plan

To support the federal government’s commitment to maintain a strong and effective publicly funded health care system through investments in emerging and demonstrated innovations in priority areas, such as palliative and end-of-life care, home and community care, mental health care and other federal, provincial-territorial and emerging priorities.

To support the federal government’s commitment to maintain a strong and effective publicly funded health care system through investments in emerging and demonstrated innovations in priority areas, such as palliative and end-of-life care, home and community care, mental health care and other federal, provincial-territorial and emerging priorities.

To support the federal government’s commitment to maintain a strong and effective publicly funded health care system through investments in emerging and demonstrated innovations in priority areas, such as palliative and end-of-life care, home and community care, mental health care and other federal, provincial-territorial and emerging priorities.

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of global disability. Cognitive remediation, a behaviorally based cognitive training method, improves performance on cognitive tests in MDD, but benefits have limited transfer to real world settings. Immersive virtual reality (VR), which presents tasks in interactive and naturalistic environments, has the potential to enhance the real world applicability of cognitive remediation. As part of a previous R&D effort, the University of British Columbia and NRC have collaboratively developed the bWell Cognitive Care Platform for Depression (bWell-D), which addresses cognitive deficits associated with MDD. In this Project, a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted to acquire evidence that bWell-D meets feasibility criteria to advance to a large?scale definitive RCT to fully validate clinical efficacy. Preliminary estimates of efficacy and outcome variance will optimize the protocols for the large-scale trial. Comprehensive datasets will be collected, including clinical rating scales, functional/quality of life measures, neurocognitive testing, highly grained VR exercise logs and electroencephalography (EEG). Using multivariate and machine learning techniques, brain based predictors and mediators of cognitive change will also be examined, with the potential to open the door to individualized remediation strategies.

Development of a livestock management software solution to add efficiencies to farms who are managing pigs, cows, sheep, goats, etc.

This is a Youth project to support the hiring of a VR marketing specialist.

This project consists in the development of a compact AC/DC driver for high power LEDs, which can be directly installed in an addressable horticultural lighting fixture and connected to a centralized control system by a wireless network controlling simultaneously several electronic circuits and allowing the modulation of the light spectral signature (for greenhouses, garden and indoor crops).

Development of a digital certificate of ownership registry on blockchain for artwork assets through a proprietary tokenization process. It aims at better traceability and accessibility for insurance brokers and their collectors to reduce operating expenses and to improve the quality of the information.

This grant supports the implementation of the Unama’ki Resource Management Program on Cape Breton Island which includes stewardship practices related to natural resource management, elder and youth projects, learning opportunities, collaboration and relationship building with key partners and stakeholders.