Grants and Contributions

R&D/industry liaison focussed on green hydroponics and mining

The PS752 Commemorative Scholarship Program is a meaningful tribute to the 176 victims who tragically lost their lives in the PS752 flight disaster on January 8, 2020. Among these victims were brilliant minds and dedicated students who significantly contributed to Canada’s educational institutions. Over the next 5 years, from 2023 to 2028 academic year, Global Affairs Canada will offer 176 scholarships to international and Canadian post-secondary students studying in Canada to honour their legacies.
A minimum of 70% of the scholarships will to be granted to international students, reflecting the percentage of international passengers on Flight PS752. This prestigious scholarship offers applicants the chance to receive an average of $25,000.

This Project supports the Canadian community’s efforts to attract, retain and expand foreign direct investment (FDI) and is ultimately designed to strengthen the economy at the community level.

The objective of the SDG Funding Program is to support sustainable development projects that:.• Support the development and utilization of effective approaches to address sustainable development and the social, economic and environmental issues and challenges;.• Develop, exchange and apply knowledge, tools and resources that address sustainable development needs of individuals, families and communities;.• Foster partnerships and networks to address sustainable development and the existing and emerging social, economic and environmental issues;.• Recognize and support the ability of organizations to identify and address sustainable development priorities; .• Recognize and promote engagement initiatives at the international, national, subnational, and/or local level that mobilize assets and develop capacities and resources for action; and/or.• Foster Indigenous traditional knowledge on sustainable development..

The objective of the SDG Funding Program is to support sustainable development projects that:.• Support the development and utilization of effective approaches to address sustainable development and the social, economic and environmental issues and challenges;.• Develop, exchange and apply knowledge, tools and resources that address sustainable development needs of individuals, families and communities;.• Foster partnerships and networks to address sustainable development and the existing and emerging social, economic and environmental issues;.• Recognize and support the ability of organizations to identify and address sustainable development priorities; .• Recognize and promote engagement initiatives at the international, national, subnational, and/or local level that mobilize assets and develop capacities and resources for action; and/or.• Foster Indigenous traditional knowledge on sustainable development..

The objective of the SDG Funding Program is to support sustainable development projects that:.• Support the development and utilization of effective approaches to address sustainable development and the social, economic and environmental issues and challenges;.• Develop, exchange and apply knowledge, tools and resources that address sustainable development needs of individuals, families and communities;.• Foster partnerships and networks to address sustainable development and the existing and emerging social, economic and environmental issues;.• Recognize and support the ability of organizations to identify and address sustainable development priorities; .• Recognize and promote engagement initiatives at the international, national, subnational, and/or local level that mobilize assets and develop capacities and resources for action; and/or.• Foster Indigenous traditional knowledge on sustainable development..

The objective of the SDG Funding Program is to support sustainable development projects that:.• Support the development and utilization of effective approaches to address sustainable development and the social, economic and environmental issues and challenges;.• Develop, exchange and apply knowledge, tools and resources that address sustainable development needs of individuals, families and communities;.• Foster partnerships and networks to address sustainable development and the existing and emerging social, economic and environmental issues;.• Recognize and support the ability of organizations to identify and address sustainable development priorities; .• Recognize and promote engagement initiatives at the international, national, subnational, and/or local level that mobilize assets and develop capacities and resources for action; and/or.• Foster Indigenous traditional knowledge on sustainable development..

This project advances the Government of Canada commitment to plant an additional two billion new trees over the next 10 years as part of a broader approach to nature-based climate solutions.

This project will install innovative technology in a forest products facility in Canada.

Recently, revolutionary progress has been made on large language models (LLMs) such as the GPT/Llama series, among others. Since the models provide unprecedented capabilities in representing and accessing knowledge, they have started to be used in scientific discovery/design, a new research trend that is still at its infant stage but will have a transformative impact.

An essential component that is seriously understudied is reasoning for intelligent design. Reasoning is one of the most basic components of intelligence, which draws conclusions from existing knowledge. Without a solid reasoning ability, the progress that can be achieved for AI for design is seriously limited.

The project aims to develop novel LLMs with enhanced reasoning. In a feasible setup, the project focuses on material discovery. The team targets two key objectives: (i) Developing novel reasoning models to effectively narrow down the search space of material design. (ii) Researching better graph networks to represent materials and building LLM-based agents to find material design solutions.