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.
$90,000.00
Jan 1, 2023
Academia
Wearable breath and sweat sensors for health status monitoring
1001153
This project aims at developing sensors for noninvasive and continuous sampling of biomarkers relevant to assess a senior's health condition. A sensor array, akin to an electronic nose, will be designed and built to detect and identify biomarkers such as acetone (diabetes, lung cancer), ammonia (liver diseases), nitric oxide (asthma, COPD), hydrogen disulfide (asthma, airways inflammation) and isoprene (lung cancer) in the breath of individuals. Carbon nanotube field-effect transistor sensing elements will be fabricated as to yield different signals to biomarkers, and assembled in a single sensing system. The array of sensing elements will provide a unique signature for each biomarker to identify the biomarker
marker presence and to quantify its concentration in order to issue an early warning of a change in the health condition. Moreover, an electronic skin will be developed where an electrochemical device based on carbon nanotubes will be used to detect specifically glucose and/or cortisol in eccrine sweat.
$197,897.00
Jan 1, 2023
Academia
Using blinking to help us age better: blink-related oscillations for early detection of cognitive decline
1001177
This project aims to validate a new brain health assessment that will identify individuals at risk of developing AD at very early stages using a simple, low-cost method.
$442,203.00
Jan 1, 2023
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Using blinking to help us age better: blink-related oscillations for early detection of cognitive decline
1016674
This project aims to validate a new brain health assessment that will identify individuals at risk of developing AD at very early stages using a simple, low-cost method.
$162,489.00
Jan 1, 2023
For-profit organization
Business Innovation – Increase of subscription revenue with new sales and marketing processes
1001217
Business innovation to re-engineer marketing and sales activities to optimize the firm’s customer acquisition, conversion to premium plans and expansion to new markets.
$898,910.00
Jan 1, 2023
For-profit organization
GOSPF - Gas Oscillation Superplastic Forming
1001237
Development of advanced superplastic forming technology which uses Gas Oscillation to drastically (up to 20x) increase the speed of forming, moving SPF technology from a niche to forming technology to the mainstream.
$50,000.00
Jan 1, 2023
For-profit organization
Satellite Imaging Toolkit for terrestrial features
1001266
Earth observation with large spatial coverage, high temporal revisits make an attractive option for continuous monitoring of Earth. The objective is to develop a software framework that leverages AI and processing tools to automatically search and discover events or objects of interest.
$75,000.00
Jan 1, 2023
For-profit organization
Development of Novel Oral Appliance for Assisting Senior Population to Overcome a Sleep Related Breathing Disorder
1001285
The company aims to develop next two versions of improved Anti-snoring Oral Appliance prototypes to progress closer to commercial product for demonstrating to a larger sample of prospective prescriber or recommender stake holders (e.g. dentists, sleep physicians), to acquire potential sales and commercial feedback. The feedback and design and developmental improvements will be iterative, building upon current version of prototype already manufactured and demonstrated to limited stake holders.
$750,000.00
Jan 1, 2023
For-profit organization
Automated Content Creation Tool(s)
1001313
Automated Content Creation Tool(s) will allow instructors quickly and easily create new video courses on the LearnFormula platform. The use of modern technologies and AI will decrease the average course creation time from 2-3 months to 2-3 hours.
$350,000.00
Jan 1, 2023
For-profit organization
Real-time energy market arbitrage
1001314
This project will be focused on building real-time energy market arbitrage capabilities into our Network Operations Centre (NOC) to control both front of the meter batteries and behind the meter machines and processes.
$75,000.00
Jan 1, 2023
For-profit organization
Digitise Point of Sale (PoS) activity in restaurants
1001424
The project supports the further development of a payments platform that is integrated with the customer/order management systems typically utilised in restaurants. The project will lay the basis from which the Firm can investigate, integrate and pattern next generation solutions which could be applied to a wider range of retail point of sale (PoS) applications.