Grants and Contributions

ECCC Meteorology Scholarships

Kitselas Stewardship Education Centre: Curriculum and Activity Development

The Project will support pilot testing of AI strategies, determine target architecture and quantitative technical objectives for implementation of an AI solution.

Participation in the Canadian smart materials co-innovation mission to Japan January 27 to 31, 2025. Delegation led by the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) to explore the Japanese market and to develop international partnerships and potential project ideas under the Japan Program. In Partnership with the Trade Commissioner Service (TCS), and Deep Tech Canada, the Canadian delegation will also receive coaching and mentoring by industry leaders, support for their international business and market-entry strategies, as well as get introductions to other potential partners and clients during the mission.

The firm is attending the Canadian Circular Battery Mission to South Korea to engage with Korean battery industry players and forge potential business relationship to export Canadian critical minerals refining technologies to the Korean markets.

The Project aims to pilot a PVC window recycling program to reduce GHG and other environmental impacts, conserve resources, and promote the circular economy within the construction industry. PVC windows are a significant source of embodied carbon emissions due to the embodied carbon in the glass and the PVC. The manufacture of PVC is highly carbon intensive, resulting in substantial carbon emissions per kg of product. Currently, post-consumer PVC window profiles are not being recycled and are sent to landfills. Developing an alternative approach that allows for the recycling of end-of-life PVC windows will reduce the need for landfilling, reduce emissions associated with all window components, and reduce plastic waste. Key challenges include demonstrating effective PVC recycling processes and determining the extent to which PVC can be recovered and reused in new windows. This project serves as a model for contributing to a lower carbon and more sustainable future.

Grab bars are installed on washroom walls to allow people with and without
disabilities to safely use washroom facilities, by providing support for
recovering balance from a slip/trip, to maintain balance while stepping into
and out of bathtubs and showers, and maintain balance while transferring
between standing and sitting.
To reduce the risk that a grab bar will detach from the wall and cause a fall
and injury to users, the National Building Code of Canada prescribes a
conservatively high structural strength requirement. The limited
biomechanical evidence to date focused on bathroom tasks indicates that
user applied loads may be below NBC requirements. There is added expense
and planning required to meet current NBC loading requirements which may
present a barrier to installation. A gap in evidence remains on applied grab
bar loads during high-loading bathing tasks (e.g. sit-to-stand from the bathtub
floor).
Through collaboration with the NRC’s Aging-in-Place Research Program and
KITE Research Institute-University Health Network, this study aims to fill this
evidence gap by evaluating the applied grab bar loads during sit-to-stand
transfers. This will provide critical biomechanical evidence to inform the
structural strength requirements for grab bars in the National Building Code of
Canada

This International Co-Innovation Action Program (ICAP) project will prepare the firm General Magnetic Canada Inc. to expand in Brazil. The firm identified Austral Engenharia (Austral) as its Co-Innovation Partner. Austral has the technical capabilities, market knowledge and established operations in north-eastern Brazil along with existing customer relationships with O&G producers. Austral wants to expand its product offerings to add O&G Clean Tech Equipment and has identified GMCI as its preferred Clean Tech Innovation Technology Partner to deliver a complete operating and environmental solution to Brazil.

The objective of this project is to increase capacity to prepare for and respond to wildfires by supporting prevention and mitigation wildland firefighter training for participants who live in remote and Indigenous Communities

This contribution supports the ⱡkamnin’tik Childrens Truth and Reconciliation Society to research and acquire residential school photos, records, audio and video from former students, develop a database to house these and create an animated video for grades K-5 on Residential schools.