Grants and Contributions

Participant funding grant to participate in CER-led engagement activities after the Governor in Council decision for Pembina’s Taylor to Gordondale Project.

Business start-up: The project aims to launch a company specializing in manufacturing steel structural frames.

Support: The project aims to support the Innovation Partnerships Entrepreneurship (IPE) strategy of a teaching and research organization.

Acquisition of equipment and marketing strategy: The project aims to improve productivity and production capacity, as well as to diversify the markets of a company specializing in manufacturing precision equipment.

The 2X Ignite Africa Warehousing Facility aims to strengthen economic stability and resilience across African markets by expanding women’s access to capital and strengthening women’s leadership in investment. The project supports women-led investment funds to finance small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), helping unlock growth, create jobs, and build more inclusive local economies. By backing female fund managers and improving the quality of investment decision-making, the project contributes to women’s economic empowerment and more resilient African markets.
Key project activities include:
• Deploying concessional loans to female fund managers to increase the availability of capital for women-led and women-benefiting businesses.
• Warehousing SME deals to help build investment pipelines and prepare high-potential SMEs for future financing.
• Providing coaching and hands-on support to investment funds on impact measurement and management (IMM), including good practices related to gender equality and climate considerations, delivered by the investment team.
Through these activities, the project helps crowd in private investment, strengthen fund management capacity, and expand sustainable financing for SMEs across Africa.

Canada's assessed contribution to NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO HEADQUARTERS)

Lighthouse, the Global Protection Fund, is a multi-donor pooled fund to establish a dynamic sub-granting platform that advances the protection of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) by channelling resources directly to those at risk, supporting localization, fostering flexibility, and enabling at-risk HRDs and civil society organizations (CSOs) to sustain their work where needs and impact are greatest.
The ultimate goal of Lighthouse is that HRDs, civil society groups, and movements most at risk worldwide are safer, more resilient, and better able to continue their human rights work through strengthened, coordinated, and needs-driven global protection efforts.
Project activities include: (1) Processing grant applications, including verification of identity and human rights work; (2) Accompanying the recipient to ensure that measures are effective and that risks and threats are handled adequately; (3) collecting accurate and useful data across programs on threats faced by HRDs; (4) disseminating the report with key stakeholders within the protection ecosystem, such as the United Nations, European Union, and national governments.

NASA's Pandora mission is a pioneering astrophysics project designed to study the atmospheres of at least 20 exoplanets and their host stars. Selected as part of NASA's inaugural call for Pioneer mission concepts, Pandora is a small satellite mission slated to launch in early 2026. The mission's primary objective is to disentangle the atmospheric signals of distant planets from the light of their parent stars. To achieve this, Pandora will conduct long-duration observations, using a 0.45-meter telescope to simultaneously capture visible and near-infrared light from star systems as planets transit. This multiwavelength approach will allow scientists to better understand stellar activity and its impact on exoplanet atmosphere measurements, identifying elements like hydrogen and water or the presence of clouds. The data gathered by Pandora will complement observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, enhancing the search for habitable worlds.

The HAWC Sampler and Emulator for CanESM (HAWC-SEC) is software that extracts synthetic data that mimics HAWC observations from climate simulations with the Canadian Earth System Model. It also samples the model data mimicking pre-launch observational campaigns, such as ground-based or aircraft-based measurements. The software integrates samplers, which select the model data following the instrument's view (e.g. satellite orbit or aircraft flight path), with emulators that convert atmospheric properties simulated by a climate model to the quantities retrieved from instrument observations. Although the project is focused on CanESM, the HAWC-SEC software is flexible and could be adopted into other earth system models. HAWC-SEC enables validation of model-simulated cloud and aerosol properties against observations from HAWC and pre-launch campaigns. This data analysis will support development of the model simulated cloud and aerosol physics to improve understanding of earth system science.

This project aims to bring together national and global leaders in the agricultural mental health field to conduct cutting-edge research to develop evidence-based farmer-informed programming and education to address wellbeing-related challenges amongst Canadian farmers.