Grants and Contributions

Sakitawak Metis Protected Area

This project seeks to ensure that Sudan’s political process to end the war and post-war state-building planning is civilian centered. Global Partners Governance aims to support a broad coalition of Sudanese civilian actors under the most credible civilian platform. Project activities include: (1) advocating to the belligerents, the United Nation, the African Union, Inter-governmental Authority for Development and regional and international governments for an end to the conflict; (2) providing the identified civilian platform with technical, logistical and political facilitation support to organize consultation and dialogue meetings; (3) coordinating international technical support provided to the civilian platform, mainly support focused on designing an inclusive mediation process; and (4) liaising between the civilian platform and the international community.

The biggest mysteries in physics are the accelerated expansion of the Universe caused by dark energy, and dark matter, which forms the structure in the Universe, including our own Milky Way galaxy. Despite accounting for most of the matter-energy content of the Universe, their properties are only poorly known. The Euclid space mission will measure their properties by using the distortion of shapes of distant galaxies by gravitating matter, known as gravitational lensing. This proposal is to study the expected gravitational lensing effect around galaxies using simulations and measure it in the first release of Euclid data.

Following the JWST ERS and Cycle 2 GO Announcement of Opportunity published on July 6, 2023, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to conduct their research using the JWST data.

This project aims to reveal the properties and ages of the oldest white dwarfs in our Galaxy; the precise ages of these “ultracool” white dwarfs remain a mystery due to uncertainties in our current models of their atmospheres. Direct observation of these white dwarfs using infrared spectroscopy will accurately determine the properties and ages of ultracool white dwarfs. This will also improve the characterization of planetary material detected in these ancient stars, giving unprecedented insights into the composition of planetary systems that existed up to 10 billion years ago.

Following the JWST ERS and Cycle 2 GO Announcement of Opportunity published on July 6, 2023, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to conduct their research using the JWST data.

It has long been postulated that massive young stars in small dwarf galaxies are the source of photons that drive reionization. This project will employ a new method of detecting dwarf galaxies using medium bands. Once these galaxies are found they will be fully mapped in 2D. This will uncover what is causing the intense star-formation within them, and how the energetic photons that reionize the Universe escape from these galaxies.

This project will study three of the oldest and faintest massive galaxies in our universe, these galaxies are said to have formed “impossibly early,” within a billion years of the Big Bang. This program will investigate how these galaxies assembled large masses of stars in such a short period of time using JWST spectroscopy.

Support the Innu Nation Secretariat for the Conservation and Recovery of Boreal Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou)

Marketing strategy: The project aims to increase sales for a company that develops, adapts and markets innovative data management solutions for mining companies and contractors.

Acquisition of digital equipment: The project aims to improve productivity and increase production capacity at a company specializing in stainless steel processing.

Financing for businesses and organizations: The project is to support an organization that will provide financial assistance to Aboriginal tourist attractions, in order to build and consolidate a potential offering outside Quebec in all regions of the province.