Grants and Contributions
About this information
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.
$760,000.00
Mar 27, 2020
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Climate Change in Africa: Impacts and Responses For Women and Girls
7419561 P008035001
The project works to strengthen the evidence base in order to improve the design and implementation of gender-responsive climate change policies in sub-Saharan Africa, and to contribute to the empowerment of women and girls as beneficiaries and leaders in national climate strategies.
Project activities include: (1) running a call for proposals for teams of researchers and policy officials to conduct research on gender-responsive climate change policy options; (2) providing mentorship to selected teams in advanced research methods to analyze the economics of gender equality and climate change; and (3) providing training support to researchers and policy officials to understand, communicate, and use the results of this analysis to influence more effective climate change policies and programs.
$22,860.00
Mar 27, 2020
Indigenous recipients
AICFI C4.0 - Fort Folly
FP860-19A125
Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture
$26,100.00
Mar 27, 2020
Indigenous recipients
NICFI Aquaculture - Curve Lake
FP860-19N078
Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture
$96,486.00
Mar 27, 2020
Indigenous recipients
IMSI - Quatsino
FP860-19I049
Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture
$53,600.00
Mar 27, 2020
Indigenous recipients
AICFI C4.0 - St. Mary's
FP860-19A039
Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture
$380,000.00
Mar 27, 2020
Indigenous recipients
IMSI - Pictou Landing
FP860-19I120
Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture
$500,000.00
Mar 27, 2020
Indigenous recipients
AICFI C4.0 - Pictou Landing
FP860-19A124
Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture
$231,500.00
Mar 27, 2020
Indigenous recipients
AICFI C4.0 - Wagmatcook
FP860-19A110
Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture
$158,400.00
Mar 27, 2020
Academia
Use of AI to speed up numerical simulations: Application to the design of superconducting tapes for energy and medicine domains
947573
Ceramic high temperature superconductors (HTS) are now routinely fabricated in the form of long lengths of tapes (several km), making it possible to envision large-scale superconducting applications. One issue concerns the physical properties of those HTS tapes, which can vary over length scales shorter than 1 millimeter, and lead to destructive hot spots in some circumstances. A strategy to find a solution to this problem at the design stage is to simulate the complete transient electrothermal behavior of long lengths of HTS tapes in real operating conditions while retaining their microscopic features. However, time transient simulations requires tremendous calculation times. AI techniques has proven useful for speeding up numeric simulations, but there are still open problems from the point of how to best use AI approaches due to the diversity and complexity of the physical systems object of the simulation. Because of its specificities, this particular application poses several challenges to the introduction of AI techniques, which makes it suitable from the point of view of both core AI research and material science. The AI solutions would benefit similar problems in other domains and the improvements in the design of superconductive tapes will find applications in many important areas, where high field magnets are required.
$219,155.00
Mar 27, 2020
Academia
CO2 to jet fuel
947580
The project endeavors to develop a commercial-scale technology platform to convert concentrated CO2 from industrial emitters into aviation fuel with renewable H2. Such technology has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by 80% compared to conventional aviation fuel. The platform involves the conversion of CO2 to CO by reverse water gas shift (RWGS) and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process to liquid hydrocarbons, specifically jet-fuel. Both stages have been developed separately but there is no detailed study on their integration. Polytechnique Montreal’s team will focus on their integration and on the design of the catalysts for both stages. NRC teams in Ottawa will provide fundamental analytical techniques to characterize the catalysts and expertise on statistical analysis (machine learning).The NRC team in Edmonton will contribute expertise in density functional theory that is key to design active catalysts.