Grants and Contributions

This project aims to consolidate social cohesion in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger by addressing conflict triggers, including online information monitoring. It also aims to promote credible, factual and constructive information. The project focuses on a regional approach by supporting national early warning systems that allow a collaborative risk management approach. This regional approach adopts greater flexibility to redeploy activities to other areas when required.

Project activities include: (1) creating a digital threat monitoring training program for civil society actors; (2) producing and disseminating positive and inclusive message on social medias in response to violent digital threats and disinformation; and (3) organizing local, national and regional forums to facilitate the coordinated, positive and inclusive management of digital threats with civil society, local authorities, law enforcement, and security forces.

This project aims to scale up gender-inclusive investment in agriculture and food systems that reduce poverty, adapt to climate change risks, and mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through responsAbility’s Climate Smart Agriculture and Food Systems.

This project will support the first phase of the National Outbound Mobility Survey

This research aims to develop the Pitch REsolving Spectroscopy for Electron Transport (PRESET) CubeSat (small satellite). The PRESET project will develop cutting-edge technologies for space radiation detection, magnetometry, digital signal processing, satellite communications, and attitude determination and control which will have a significant impact on Canada’s space industry and economic growth.

A primary goal of the project is to increase insect farm yield and to determine how to best manipulate diet content (Entomo-Alliance Project Objective 1) and environmental context (Entomo-Alliance Project Objective 2) to improve rearing facilities and practices and testing these findings at the cricket farm (Entomo-Alliance Project Objective 3). With support from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), additional personnel will be added to these ongoing projects to build a sustainable circular food system (CSA funded project Objective 1). Circular food systems and colony monitoring will be essential components of future deep space travel, and this project will help place Canadian industry and academics at the global forefront of discovery in deep space food production.

This project is an extension of the Silva21 Alliance project, which aims to provide tools and practical solutions to adapt forest management practices and improve both resistance to stressors and resilience to disturbance in Canadian forests. The project framework involves a series of three themes i.e.

The Western Skylark CubeSat will provide space-based data collection for both Motus and ICARUS to give near real time capabilities to the data flow from these systems. This project will demonstrate the full potential of these two systems while collecting novel data on migratory songbirds, waterbirds, and shorebirds.

The AlbertaSat team from University of Alberta will build off of an existing satellite bus to further improve student designed components and dedicate more resources to improving the payload interface.

With Canada's Arctic regions experiencing the effects of climate change faster than the rest of the country, northern Inuit and Indigenous communities require assistance. Traditional travel and hunting routes are being disrupted by unsafe ice conditions as multi-year ice melts, creating a need for community-driven remote sensing. To help address this need, an interdisciplinary team of Arctic climate change scientists, remote sensing specialists, and space systems engineers are proposing the ArcticSat Mission: A community co-developed 3U CubeSat equipped with a high-frequency microwave radiometer capable of detecting ice/water interfaces from a polar orbit and operated by community members from Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut and Churchill, Manitoba. Equipped with timely data on ice and snow conditions (including ponds of fresh water during the melt season), communities will be able to assess safe travel corridors and monitor how the surrounding environment is changing on a weekly, monthly, seasonal, and annual basis -- and how it may change in the future. Most importantly, ArcticSat will be designed, built, and operated in cooperation with northern community members, sharing the data freely over the SIKU Indigenous Knowledge Social Network, making it one of the most accessible sources of space data for northern Canadian communities.

This project proposes the development of an end-to-end “design, build, test and launch” 3U-CubeSat for monitoring climate change, and the associated engineering challenges to design and integrate science payloads and all the other subsystems with significant design limitations in terms of weight, volume and power.