Grants and Contributions

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In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.

The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.

Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.

960389 records

$119,500.00

Dec 1, 2018

For-profit organization

Agreement:

AI-Enabled Road Network Mapping

Agreement Number:

919209

Duration: from Dec 1, 2018 to Feb 28, 2019
Description:

Ecopia has developed and scaled artificial intelligence technology that identifies and extracts building features from geospatial imagery, outputting a vector feature layer of buildings (a digital “Building Map”). This project aims to allow Ecopia to adapt and further develop this capability to extract a vector feature layer of roads (a digital “Road Map”) from geospatial imagery.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Toronto, Ontario, CA M5G 1L7

$140,875.00

Dec 1, 2018

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Training System for NLP Engine (BotTrainer™)

Agreement Number:

919211

Duration: from Dec 1, 2018 to Apr 30, 2019
Description:

Sinitic proposes a novel neural architecture to automatically identify and improve dialogue policy from customer support chat histories. The learned policies will be visualized on a graphic interface.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Kitchener, Ontario, CA N2G 1H6

$52,029.00

Dec 1, 2018

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Densyfy Video AI Server

Agreement Number:

919228

Duration: from Dec 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
Description:

Development of technology that will allow consumers to consume essential and relevant video content in a selectable time duration.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: London, Ontario, CA N6K 1X3

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Youth - Environmental Remediation

Agreement Number:

919115

Duration: from Dec 1, 2018 to Jul 31, 2019
Description:

Earthmaster is an environmental sciences company that provides services to the upstream oil and gas industry. Earthmaster has developed a phytoremediation technology (PEPSystems) for treatment of soil contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons and salt from oil and gas related activities. This project entails the training of a new graduate on the full range of environmental services offered by Earthmaster and to expose them to the PEPSystems technology.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
Location: Calgary, Alberta, CA T2H 2M5

$75,000.00

Dec 1, 2018

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Broker Features development: Software Data Exchange Interface for improved HR Benefits Enrolment

Agreement Number:

918388

Duration: from Dec 1, 2018 to Mar 15, 2019
Description:

We plan to adapt our existing SMB-focused HR platform into a technology platform for benefits advisors that would enhance the experience of managing benefits plans, pension plans and alternative benefits products for their clients. This new product for brokers will include pension plan management components and automation that makes managing a benefits plan easier. We will need to build innovative technology to achieve direct data linkage with the internal systems of various insurance and pension providers in Canada.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Toronto, Ontario, CA M5V 2C3

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Pharmaceutical Knowledge Base Data Expansion

Agreement Number:

918389

Duration: from Dec 1, 2018 to Jun 30, 2019
Description:

The project will include the addition and curation of new types of data and data sets for our drug information database including adding more detailed information about drugs that are currently in clinical trials, and developing marketing materials for recent additions to the database including drugs in clinical trials, a new API for the drug information related to drugs in clinical trials and developing expanded marketing strategies for our data products.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CA T5J 1B9

$20,000.00

Dec 1, 2018

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Stem Cell Based Products for Agriculture - Youth Green

Agreement Number:

918425

Duration: from Dec 1, 2018 to Mar 31, 2019
Description:

New approaches to enhance livestock health and production are urgently needed due to antibiotic resistance. The aim of the project is to develop a highly efficient and safe colostrum stem cell-based products to prevent disease/infection in farm animals such as dairy cows and pigs.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Green Youth Employment Program
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CA T6J 4J1

$204,000.00

Dec 1, 2018

For-profit organization

Agreement:

iTMethods DevOps SaaS Platform – Revolutionizing the Software Factory

Agreement Number:

921911

Duration: from Dec 1, 2018 to Apr 30, 2019
Description:

Productization of the DevOps SaaS Platform will provide a simpler and more effective approach to building and maintaining a modern software delivery (factory) capability supporting a best of breed tools approach for application and software teams across an enterprise. This IRAP project will support the productization process by taking what are currently manual deployments and management processes, with no-self-service capabilities, and enabling an automated self-service platform support the enterprise business needs of our Customers.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Toronto, Ontario, CA M2P 2E9

$46,000.00

Dec 1, 2018

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Feasibility: Low Costing of Palette

Agreement Number:

922025

Duration: from Dec 1, 2018 to Apr 30, 2019
Description:

Feasibility study to reduce the manufacturing cost of Mosaic's Palette line of products.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Toronto, Ontario, CA M5G 1V2

$50,000.00

Dec 1, 2018

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Development of MVP for 2-Sided Marketplace for Sustainable Jewelry

Agreement Number:

919576

Duration: from Dec 1, 2018 to Apr 30, 2019
Description:

Development of a web-based 2-sided marketplace platform that will eliminate the barriers to entry faced by jewelry designers and make it easy for them to scale their business. Finley is the first and only platform that provides an end-to-end solution for designers from sourcing to selling.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Toronto, Ontario, CA M4C 4Y2