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.
$20,000.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Obese People's Flight Experience: An Exploratory Study In-Situ
925082
This research team will study the air travel experience of those living with obesity with the aim of designing systems, technologies and processes to address the issues identified. The research will take place in the new Centre for Air Travel Research with collaborators from Carleton University, University of Alberta and Obesity Canada.
$25,000.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Metamaterial photonic nanoantennas for optical phased arrays
925201
A new type of optical phased array based on densely packed high-efficiency grating couplers and surface-emitting nanoantennas will be investigated, including the key performance parameters such as the directionality of the emitted beam, the steering range and field divergence.
$12,500.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Exploring New Trends of Deep Networks: Deep Generative Models with Capsules
925076
We wonder how symbolic and connectionist AI could converge in the next-generation deep learning algorithms. We approach this question by investigating and developing deep generative neural networks with capsules (multivariate stochastic neurons), which will represent elements of knowledge in capsules and dynamically piece together to produce novelties that make sense.
$22,000.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Lifetime Learning-based Predictive Modeling Technologies for Prognostic and Health Management
925077
The proposed project aims at developing lifetime predictive models.
$25,000.00
Mar 15, 2019
Academia
Study of cold spray adhesion mechanisms for the development of high performance protective coatings
925208
The effects of aluminum feedstock powder characteristics on cold spray (CS) coating adhesion on steel surfaces will be identified for the first time. It will lead to improvement in the fundamental understanding of the buildup mechanisms at the origin of CS deposition in order to optimise the CS coating adhesion properties.
$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
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. It will significantly minimize the number of simulation runs thus reduce the computational and flight testing costs.
$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.