Grants and Contributions

Support for 2021-22 regional marketing and tourism product development

This project « Canadian Science and
Engineering – a Path Back to the Moon »
objective is to create a new suite of
programs that will increase knowledge and
awareness of STEM topics within the Canadian
space context for youth and educators in
Northern Alberta. The core of these programs
will be the creation of a new live
planetarium show that will explore the work
done by diverse Canadian scientists and
engineers involved in the Lunar Gateway
mission, which is returning humans to the
Moon. The show will explore Canadian
achievements in space research and
engineering through the years, from the
start with Alouette-I to today's challenges
of once again exploring the Moon. The live
presentation will also showcase Canadian
robotics and space imaging expertise, and
the challenges that need to be overcome to
return humans to the Moon.

This study will examine the
physiology of blood clotting with volunteers
in a 60-day bedrest study to simulate the
weightlessness of spaceflight. This
information will help us better understand
venous clotting in astronauts and patients
confined to bed.

This study will examine the physiology of blood clotting in participants in dry immersion (a way of simulating the weightlessness of spaceflight). This information will help us better understand venous clotting in astronauts and hospitalized patients confined to bed.

August 2021 - Prior to the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19), humanitarian needs, including those related to food security, had already reached unprecedented levels. The pandemic has exacerbated the situation by disrupting food production, supply and distribution; destabilizing food prices; and reducing country and/or consumer purchasing power. According to the July 2021 Food and Agriculture Organization’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, in 2020 the world experienced the single largest increase in global hunger ever recorded, with as many as 160 million additional people falling deeper into hunger. This trend has only continued into 2021. In Africa in particular, hunger affects 21% of the population.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is scaling up its response to the global food crisis, including through adapting its programs to address the needs and challenges related to food insecurity in conflict settings. The ICRC is coordinating with the rest of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, including the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and National Societies, to support a local and global response to the food crisis.

With GAC’s support, the ICRC is working to ensure assistance, including food assistance, reaches the most difficult-to-access populations, in crisis- and conflict-affected contexts. Project activities include: (1) distributing nutritional supplements for the prevention of malnutrition to households with children aged six to twenty-three months; (2) providing supplementary food rations (super cereal plus) to pregnant and lactating women who visit ICRC-supported primary health care facilities; and (3) working with vulnerable farmers, livestock-keeping communities and other affected populations (including internally displaced peoples, returnees and residents) on sustainable solutions to increase their level of production.

Encourage Canadian fisheries and aquaculture industries to implement clean technologies and measures to reduce the potential negative environmental impacts of their activities.

Canada's Fisheries Fund will transform and drive innovation in the fish and seafood sector in Canada with a focus on developing the sector to better meet growing market demands for sustainably sourced, high-quality fish and seafood products.

SOS CUBAN WILDLIFE SPECIES.
Reducing capture of endangered species for illegal trade and use, a threat to Cuban biodiversity, through diagnostic, outreach and educational actions.

Management of urban green areas in the Ampliación Almendares People's Council, focusing on the Monte Barreto Ecological Park, city parks and tree-lined avenues, to engage the community in building socio-environmental resilience.

Coastal Western Screech-Owl Studies And Nocturnal Wildlife Inventory Within Old Growth Ecosystems of Southwest BC