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.
$12,500.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Rail Stress Monitoring using BOTDA Fibre Optics Sensing
925182
Fibre optic sensing is a game changing solution to study rail stress behavior in-situ. This project proposes to deploy this technology at a rail site to test its suitability and gather critical data".
$25,000.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Investigation of a novel configuration of a two-bladed troposkien shape vertical axis wind turbine
925145
Blade-Vortex Interaction (BVI) is a well-studied phenomenon in Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) which can cause significant reduction in power generation capacity of the turbine. This proposal suggests a solution that has the potential to mitigate this adverse effect and increase the performance of the turbine significantly.
$25,000.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Uncertainty quantification of shock wave location variation for transonic flutter prediction
925143
Flutter is a dangerous unstable vibration of flexible structures/aircraft subjected to aerodynamic forces at high speeds. The project will quantify the effect of shock-wave location variations on the transonic flutter speed, by developing an uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis framework.
$21,900.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Hybrid P3HT/BNNT crystalline films for polymer electronics applications.
925218
Films of highly ordered P3HT crystallites templated on boron nitride nanotube scaffolds will be fabricated and crystallinity and degree of alignment optimized. Thin film transistors and active layers for bulk heterojunction solar cells will be fabricated from the P3HT/BNNT hybrid formulation and their performance tested.
$25,000.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Development of dosimetry standards for synchrotron x-ray beams
925183
Development of detectors and measurement methods to characterize monoenergetic x-rays produced by synchrotrons, with the aim of providing the basic metrology necessary for clinical diagnostic and therapeutic applications for such beams.
$25,000.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Leveraging the power of yeast genetics for accelerated mammalian cell engineering
925090
Key limitations of iPSC-derived cells are the persistence of immature phenotypes and variability between iPSC lines. To address these problems, a Synthetic Biology platform that leverages yeast prototyping will be developed to enable accurate post-differentiation manipulation and correction of genome-scale expression profiles to better recapitulate desired endogenous cellular phenotypes.
$25,000.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Development of a new tool for modeling fate of microplastics in the aquatic environment
925144
The purpose of the proposed project is to investigate feasibility of developing a tool which integrates numerical modeling and remote sensing approaches for detecting, monitoring and modeling fate of plastic particles and in particular microplastic particles (less than 5mm in diameter), in the aquatic environment.
$18,000.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
The role of plant miRNAs in shaping its microbiome.
925151
The objective of this research project is to characterize a novel miRNA-based interaction pathway between plants and their microbiome.
$25,000.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Discovery of gene variants of a signaling factor with performance functions
925217
As signaling pathways play important roles in performance traits, in this project, we will investigate TOR signaling mediated functions, to identify gene targets for such traits with potential applications in crops.
$25,000.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Targeted Engineering of Gene Network Controlling Seed Coat Development for Meal Quality Improvement in Pulse Crops
925199
This project will efficiently target the crucial genes controlling development of lentil seed and seed coat traits using (1) EMS mutagenesis and (2) CRISPR/Cas9 based genome editing tools to generate novel diverse cis-regulatory alleles, to address the need for improved lentil meal quality and support the Canadian lentil industry.