Grants and Contributions

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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.

Found seven records

$32,500.00

Apr 1, 2022

For-profit organization

Agreement:

DarwinAI Corp.-2022-2023-991199

Agreement Number:

991199

Duration: from Apr 1, 2022 to Feb 28, 2023
Description:

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: CanExport SMEs
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, CA N2V 1K4

$600,000.00

Feb 1, 2021

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Germany BMWi Federated LeArnIng for RObotic Picking (FLAIROP)

Agreement Number:

966185

Duration: from Feb 1, 2021 to Mar 24, 2023
Description:

Germany BMWi FLAIROP project led by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) to develop an international federated learning system in robotic picking and placing of unknown objects.

The goal is to boost current AI solutions with more data while preserving privacy regulations. The goal is to gain more knowledge of how to advance the use of AI in the manufacturing data picking space.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, CA N2V 1K4

$250,000.00

Jun 22, 2020

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Explainable AI for Early Stage Deep Learning Development

Agreement Number:

954790

Duration: from Jun 22, 2020 to Mar 26, 2021
Description:

The ‘black box’ problem in Artificial Intelligence represents one of the greatest business and societal risks of our time. The question of how deep neural networks make their decisions has plagued both academics and enterprises alike. While neural networks behave in ways that reflect the data they are trained against and the human labelers who annotate that data (incorporating selection and human biases along the way), it remains unclear how they reach particular conclusions.

Our team hopes to convert the intangible concepts of explainability into concrete tools that help deep learning designers and developers in the early stages of development.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, CA N2V 1K4

$3,325.00

Nov 20, 2019

For-profit organization

Agreement:

CIIP PDA - DarwinAI Corp. - 19/20

Agreement Number:

7417312 P008866001

Duration: from Nov 20, 2019 to Jan 29, 2020
Description:

The purpose of this Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) contribution agreement is to support organizations and to identify specific projects or partnerships between the Recipient and international partners in CIIP target countries that could lead to industrial research and development cooperation with potential for commercialization.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada
Program Name: Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP)
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, CA N2V 1K4

$165,489.00

Oct 15, 2019

For-profit organization

Agreement:

DarwinAI Data Auditing

Agreement Number:

938961

Duration: from Oct 15, 2019 to Mar 6, 2020
Description:

The DarwinAI Data Auditing Project aims to develop a new feature to reduce the manual labour and guesswork required when analyzing deep learning model errors that need to be corrected with training data. We are developing a proprietary algorithm to automatically group images by the model’s own interpretation, rather than by simple visual criteria, in order to provide better insights on the root cause of the errors.This project would accelerate a smart way to cluster errors thereby increasing our platform’s marketability.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, CA N2V 1K4

$32,000.00

Aug 19, 2019

For-profit organization

Agreement:

European Mobility Strategy

Agreement Number:

933715

Duration: from Aug 19, 2019 to Sep 30, 2020
Description:

The focus of this project is for DarwinAI to export its services to customers in Europe by sending representatives to attend conferences and meet with prospective companies in automotive, aerospace, and consumer electronics.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: CanExport
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, CA N2V 1K4

$20,000.00

Jun 24, 2019

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Full Stack Developer - Youth Project

Agreement Number:

933108

Duration: from Jun 24, 2019 to Dec 31, 2019
Description:

Works as a fullstack developer on our main portal.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, CA N2V 1K4