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.
$35,000.00
Dec 11, 2023
International (non-government)
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Entrepreneurship, Education Collaboration and Engagement (EECOLE) network organised and hosted its second annual roundtable that presented and discussed research findings on how the geographic proximity of entrepreneurial ecosystems and higher educational institutions incubate and accelerate growth in Canada.
$72,000.00
Nov 3, 2023
Academia
The objective of this research project is to estimate the greenhouse gas emission impact of hybrid work on buildings, personal homes, personal transportation use and commuting.
$30,000.00
Sep 13, 2023
Academia
This project organized a one-day seminar held in Ottawa on September 21, 2023, to present the key insights and findings from the Innovation Policy Lab’s research on the impacts of federal innovation programs on Canada’s scale-up firms and begin to analyze and identify the policy implications.
$99,800.00
Feb 3, 2023
Academia
Impact Assessment of Government Support for Transformational Innovation
GC-2022-2023-Q4-00002
The proposed project seeks to investigate how Canada is doing when it comes to the development, deployment and adoption of clean technologies by its business enterprise, more specifically, those businesses that receive federal government support.
$63,000.00
Feb 3, 2023
Academia
Text Analysis of Evaluation Reports
GC-2022-2023-Q4-00003
The objective of this research project is to perform an independent, experimental analysis and data extraction from publicly available evaluation reports to provide innovative insights into program effectiveness. This research will explore what types of data can be extracted and analyzed from a sample of multi-jurisdictional evaluation reports, and test the usability of artificial intelligence, text mining, and other semi-automated tools to analyze the information.
$75,000.00
Jan 18, 2023
Academia
Towards Moving from Outputs to Outcomes Delivery in Major Programs
GC-2022-2023-Q4-00004
The objective of this research project is to take stock of major Canadian government digital program and project delivery and performance challenges and of the best practices that are used in countries, at the federal or sub-national level.
$35,817.50
Jan 4, 2023
International (non-government)
Joint Workshop on the Geography of Higher Education in Canada
GC-2022-2023-Q4-00001
The project will organise a hybrid workshop in Ottawa, with the participation of representatives from businesses, provincial and federal government agencies and academia, to present the preliminary results of ongoing research between Statistics Canada, the Organisation of Economic Co-Operation and Development, and the Treasury Board of Canada, on how to measure the spillover effects of universities’ research on regional innovation ecosystems.
$20,000.00
Nov 18, 2022
Not-for-profit organization or charity
The event features a Fall Lecture seeking to explore the theme “Getting Real on Innovation.” Canada’s innovation performance has, for decades now, been a subject of intense public policy debate. While Canada's workforce and human capital includes the highest share of university or college graduates in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and ranks first in the G-7 for higher-education for research and development performance, these factors have not translated into sufficient private sector Research & Development, intellectual property or commercialization. Attendees are those from the private, public, Academia, and not-for profit sectors.