Grants and Contributions

This grant supports participation in the Indigenous Stewardship Workshop 2025, a three-day event in Nanaimo, BC, which brings together representatives from eight First Nations that are partner to Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.

This contribution supports a research and outdoor education program that aims to create and showcase nature-inspired songs through immersive workshops, public shows, and an interactive museum exhibit. Songs 4 Nature program also helps established or aspiring musicians, including Indigenous musicians, connect with nature and hone their songwriting skills.

The contribution supports research on the wolf-bison relationship in Wood Buffalo National Park. The data and information collected will support ongoing recovery and management of bison in the Park and in the surrounding area.

Machine Learning (ML) technologies have been widely adopted in many mission-critical fields to support intelligent decision-making with superior performance. With the success of these new technologies, the application of ML introduces novel and significant threats to AI-powered systems. Policymakers around the world have made a number of ongoing efforts on regulation enactment to enforce and normalize AI cybersecurity and privacy. It is essential to ensure that ML systems can achieve regulatory compliance and satisfy the standard requirements.

Croda Canada Limited is focused on the discovery and development of novel specialty chemicals for the personal care sector from its proprietary collection of marine bacteria and fungi. While the culture collection is comprised of marine?derived microorganisms collected by SCUBA at depths ranging from 30-100 ft, access to infrastructure to conduct fermentations at pressures that mimic the natural habitats of these microorganisms has not been previously available. As a result, it is likely that fermentation processes conducted at atmospheric pressure are unable to induce production of the full repertoire of metabolites encoded in the genomes of the marine microorganisms in the collection. By utilizing the novel high-pressure bioreactor technology developed by Advanced Extraction Systems Inc. in collaboration with the NRC, the Project will investigate the effect of pressure on the production of bioactive metabolites by three marine microorganisms. Results will be used to develop novel routes to new personal
care products.

This project promotes greater awareness among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians of electric vehicles.

This project builds Canadian rural or remote community capacity to increase the use of biomass as an energy source.

To coordinate local engagement on marine or rail transportation strategies and policies To facilitate the use of Indigenous traditional knowledge when decisions are made about the marine or rail transportation system To support activities and improve collaboration between Indigenous local communities and federal stakeholders

To improve Indigenous and local communities' capacity to connect and collaborate within their communities and with the federal government on transportation-related matters /To build Indigenous and local communities' capacity to participate maintain and/or manage parts of the transportation system

This project aims to purchase a hydroponic farm, processing hub, and cold storage to establish food production and food sovereignty.