Grants and Contributions

Working capital : In the context of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the project aims to ensure the continuity of the activities of an organization that supports the representatives of the clothing industry in Quebec.

Equipment Acquisition: The project aims to ensure the quality and sustainability of snowmobile trails maintained by the client and used by tourists.

Acquisition of equipment: The project aims to support innovation and improve the competitiveness of the company, which specializes in the design, manufacture and marketing of high quality solar blankets.

Acquisition of digital equipment: The project aims to improve the productivity and increase the production capacity of a machine shop specialized in the design and manufacture of recycling equipment.

Acquisition of equipment: The project aims to ensure the quality and sustainability of cross-country ski trails maintained by the Club de ski de fond Les Éclairs de Gaspé and used by tourists.

Acquisition of equipment: The project aims at acquiring specialized equipment that will be used in research and technology transfer projects for SMEs wishing to develop clean technologies to treat industrial water.

Acquisition of equipment: The project aims to increase the productivity of this company, which manufactures aircraft interior parts and components.

The objective of this project is to install a commercial kitchen, build planter boxes in the greenhouse, as well as purchase freezers, fridges and a dishwasher.

The objectives of the Program are to; support the development and utilization of effective approaches to address social issues and challenges; develop, exchange and apply knowledge, tools and resources that address social needs of individuals, families and communities; foster partnerships and networks to address existing and emerging social issues; recognize and support the ability of not-for-profit organizations to identify and address social development priorities; and, recognize and promote community engagement initiatives (e.g. volunteerism, corporate social responsibility, innovation, partnerships, coalitions) that mobilize community assets and develop capacities and resources for action.

This project aims to improve sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes and the realization of rights among different population groups with distinct SRH needs in Bangladesh. This project identifies gaps in current SRH service provision and assesses the SRH target groups' unmet needs through research. These groups include adolescent boys and girls, pregnant women and newly married couples and people with distinct SRH needs, women in the ready-made garments sector, sex workers, people with diverse sexual orientations and drug users. The project designs, develops and implements several inventions and innovations that include: (a) increasing knowledge and evidence regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) burden, needs, risk factors, service gaps and challenges; (b) identifying interventions/innovations to promote prevention and protection and improve treatment (accessibility, availability, readiness and quality); and (c) increasing capacity for the use of the evidence generated through SRHR research in national policy and practice.

Project activities include: (1) establishing cohorts with population groups with distinct SRHR needs in selected rural and urban areas; (2) estimating SRH-related disease burden, risk factors and outcomes in different populations with distinct SRH needs; (3) understanding COVID-19-related susceptibility, role in transmission dynamics and clinical outcomes in different populations with distinct SRH needs and vulnerability; (4) assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the behaviour, practice and health of different populations with SRH distinct needs; (5) setting up invention and innovation hubs through selective inventions and innovations designed, developed and tested for promoting prevention and protection and for improving treatment; (6) conducting research prioritisation exercise for promoting prevention and protection and for improving treatment; (7) establishing a health facility network of selective public and private facilities providing SRHR services; (8) assessing the service availability, accessibility, readiness and quality of essential SRHR services in selective public and private facilities; (9) tracking the trend and pattern of SRHR service utilisation and case-mix in selective public and private facilities; and (10) creating SRH interest group, developing short course on SRHR programs and research.