Grants and Contributions

Adaptation of an AI educational content generator based on multiple Canadian curricula, using existing modules.

Rock wool continues to be a common choice for soilless cultivation media in hydroponics, despite 70 000 tonnes or 250 000 m3 of rock wool waste ending up in Canadian landfills each year. Genics Inc. is developing a replacement that will eliminate rockwool waste, reduce labour and carbon footprint in greenhouses. By the end of this project, the Firm will scale up the innovation’s production to pilot scale and refine the manufacturing process to ensure product reliability and acceptance by customers. Genics will develop our manufacturing and prototype testing processes (increase the TRL from 7 to TRL 9).

BorderPass is developing a next-generation AI platform powered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agentic AI to automate and enhance Canadian visa application processes, with a focus on complex work-stream visas. This innovation addresses critical limitations in existing AI tools by enabling real-time policy retrieval, personalized content generation, and legal-grade accuracy. Targeting academic institutions and employers through a B2B2C model, the project will expand BorderPass’ service capacity, improve processing efficiency, and deliver cost savings—positioning the firm as a leader in scalable, AI-driven global mobility solutions.

This project plans to test AI methodologies to identify optimal solutions for automating the analysis of architectural drawings, improving the speed and accuracy of proposal responses.

This project will pilot an oxygenation system in Swan Lake, Victoria, to improve water quality, reduce internal phosphorus release, and lower methane emissions.

To provide employment for a recent graduate in role of engineer.

The project will offer early and late stage health technology companies the guidance and data for successful development and commercialization of AI solution in health care settings.

The BIOlab (ex TAC-B) will provide technical expertise, access to equipment and lab facilities to Canadian SMEs to support applied research projects in the field of Cellular Agriculture for both animal cell culture and precision fermentation applications.

Large animal veterinary practices lack tools improve efficiency in creating/maintaining inventories. This project will utilize predictive analytic models to identify inventory needs at veterinary practices by predicting high demand periods, natural language processing to identify key information for case records from video calls that VETSon has been gathering for the past 2.5 years, as well as creating prescriptions from video calls, as well as based on the animal types and numbers for the farm being prescribed for.

Develop a scalable, composable, and intelligent software platform to manage, optimize, and aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) within a portfolio allowing customers to self-manage, orchestrate and direct DERMs in unison as a Virtual Power Plant (VPP).