Grants and Contributions

Develop digital adoption plan

Develop digital adoption plan

Develop digital adoption plan

It also supports in connecting women entrepreneurs to value chains and to networking opportunities to grow their businesses effectively.

This Project aims to explore effective ways to protect children from the risks of recruitment and exploitation into terrorist groups, as well as the broad impacts of counter-terrorism and violent extremism on children throughout South and Southeast Asia (SA/SEA). The Project will be implemented in South and Southeast Asia, with a focus on Indonesia, building upon the initial successes of the UNODC since 2019, including through the STRIVE Juvenile initiative (2021-2023). The Project will aim to apply child-focused and gender-sensitive strategies, strengthen cross-border cooperation among policy-makers and practitioners, and enhance capacities for the treatment of children associated with terrorist groups across various security, social and justice professionals in the region.

This project proposes to 1) Support the establishment of Joint Operations Centres at both the Mandera and Lamu border points to gather and analyse information to disrupt and deter illicit trade from which al-Shabaab earns income through taxation and extortion. (2) Enhance regional and inter-agency cooperation for investigations on the recovery of proceeds of crime and assets used in the commission of cross-border illicit goods. (3) Enable the development of localized guidance frameworks to guide coordinated inter-agency border management.

CANGrow is a novel modular polyculture indoor food production system that will enable long term space exploration. The CANGrow system incorporates novel technologies in order to offer the widest possible variety of foods with optimal yield. It grows a diversity of biologically efficient food products: strawberries, cherry tomatoes, two root vegetables, microgreens, four unique culinary herbs, mini-head lettuce, an algae superfood, and a mycelial meat substitute - “space bacon”. The technology has the potential to provide over 500kg of nutrient dense food annually.

In March 2023, a neutron star (a dense stellar corpse) brightened by a factor of 10,000 in the X-rays, as it consumed material torn from a small companion star. This neutron star is located in the globular cluster Terzan 5, a cluster of about a million old stars that is rich in neutron stars. AstroSat observed the X-rays from this neutron star with its three X-ray instruments. We will study the AstroSat data, along with data from other X-ray instruments, to search for pulsations at the neutron star spin period; to look for evidence of gas blocking our view of the neutron star; and to study light reflected from the material falling onto the neutron star. We hope to infer the spin of the neutron star, the orbital period of the neutron star and its companion star, and how the infalling material falls onto the neutron star. This study can help us understand the physics of neutron stars, and of how they suck mass from companion stars and consume it.

This project will map out the ultraviolet colors of several nearby galaxies that are actively forming stars. AstroSat is observing the starlight of young, massive stars. As these short-lived stars die, the color of the galaxy changes, with the light becoming dominated by long-wavelength ultraviolet light. But there is a complication: dust in galaxies also makes the light appear redder. The new high-resolution data will be used to untangle the effects of aging from dust. This research is important because it is a local calibration needed to understand how to interpret the colors from different telescopes of the most distant galaxies.

The investigation lines up with one of Canada’s Long Range Plan main science themes (“What are the extreme conditions of the Universe?”) and with the Canadian priorities in High-Energy Astrophysics.