Grants and Contributions

The Applied Research and Development (ARD) Grants are intended to provide companies that operate from a Canadian base access to the unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities available at Canadian colleges and to train students in essential technical skills required by companies. The mutually beneficial collaborations are expected to result in economic benefits to the company and/or Canada.

Engage Grants (EGP) are designed to give innovative companies that operate from a Canadian base access to the unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities available at Canadian universities and colleges. These grants are intended to foster the development of new research partnerships by supporting short-term research and development projects aimed at addressing a company-specific problem; that is, a problem related to the company’s core competencies or activities. The simplified application and decision processes enable university and college researchers to quickly undertake new research collaborations that extend academic expertise to these problems. The mutually beneficial projects are expected to result in economic benefits to the company and to Canada and build impactful longer term collaborations between the applicant and the company.

The proposed project allows Neo to build a robust personalization engine that provides recommendations to customers in addition to personalized cashback rewards that optimize the merchant spend on customers.

HaloHealth will provide physician advisory and product validation for 12 Canadian early stage health technology startups (ESHTS) as part of the pilot program

The proposed innovation is a non-contact, non-ionizing, full body 3D imager that provides healthcare professionals with a way to visualize health issues of the body. This will provide medical professionals with an innovative imaging solution for informed clinical decisions. The objective of the project is to enhance the existing 3D body imaging unit with novel sensors to capture more detailed information on the body.

The Industrial Outreach Group (IOG) is the point of contact through which outside entrepreneurs, companies and organizations can access the unique facilities and expertise housed within the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University. IOG’s goal is to facilitate small projects that allow small and medium sized enterprises to benefit from these partnerships. IRAP funding will be dedicated to these projects to assist entrepreneurs and small businesses in improving / advancing their products or procedures.

GlobalStars Singapore – IRIDAS 16874 - in collaboration with CAAS: Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and CAG: Changi Airport Group (Singapore), this project aims to develop key components of the Integrated Runway Incursion Detection and Alerting System (IRIDAS), including Artificial Intelligence & Custom Developed Algorithms, integrate and evaluate sensor technologies to ensure desired performance is achieved, design intelligent alerting, and create new concepts of operation for ATC and Airside Operations. Given the unique first-of-nature of the solution, Searidge is collaborating with CAAS and CAG in Singapore to define a new concept of operation for the adoption of the system into both parties' operations.

The project is focused on finalizing the development of a LiDAR Traffic Counter. This technology will provide the industry with a safer, non-intrusive data collection methodology.

The proposed project will involve repeat dose testing in a Huntington's Disease model to demonstrate the ability to perform titratable genome editing. Additionally the project will involve proof of concept testing in other organ models of genetic disease.

The pilot scale project at the Annacis Research Centre tests MagPi to electrochemically recover phosphorus as struvite, Misty to strip and scrub ammonia, and MicroPoP to lyse waste activated sludge (WAS) to reduce WAS volume for disposal.