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.
$11,200.00
Apr 1, 2025
Academia
The funding received will be distributed to eligible students to help offset the high costs of conducting research in the north.
$20,100.00
Apr 1, 2024
Academia
The funding received will be distributed to eligible students to help offset the high costs of conducting research in the north.
$150,000.00
Sep 26, 2023
Academia
MARSCROP Martian Regolith Salix Co-cropping for Perchlorate
23HLSRM04
Findings from Viking and Phoenix Mars landers have revealed the widespread presence of perchlorates in Mars regolith at concentrations that are toxic to humans and plants. The MARSCROP project will explore the use of perchlorate reducing bacteria associated with willow roots to mitigate regolith toxicity as well as determine the potential for co-cropping of willow with tomato and soybean to produce safe fresh food for astronauts on the surface of Mars. The project findings will hope to exploit multisystem biology which has evolved on earth to help solve complex challenges and safeguard astronaut health on the Martian surface.
$247,500.00
Mar 25, 2021
Academia
Using satellite L-band observations to incorporate plant hydraulic functioning into a terrestrial ecosystem model to project future boreal forest response to drought conditions and heat stress
21SUESUSLB
The boreal biome constitutes an integral component of the climate system. Our limited quantitative understanding of coupled carbon and water fluxes hampers reliably predicting the boreal biome response to projected increases in disturbance frequency and intensity. This project will enhance the ecological realism of the boreal biome in a terrestrial biosphere model (CLASSIC). After exploring empirical relationships between microwave vegetation optical depth (VOD) and tree hydraulic traits, we will introduce a tree hydraulics scheme into CLASSIC. Next, we will use regional VOD-derived tree hydraulic traits to constrain past, present and future flux simulations with CLASSIC across the boreal biome.
$152,710.00
Jul 30, 2019
Academia
Contribution to the Montreal University
15883
Global Affairs Canada’s International Scholarship Program supports the recipient to enhance the international profile of Canada as a source of quality education and create interest abroad on Canada.
$475,000.00
Sep 4, 2012
The Research component of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Class Grant and Contribution Program to support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology provides financial support to organizations to conduct space related research and development in priority areas. It will support targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance the Canadian capacity to use space to address national needs and priorities in the future.
The Announcement of opportunity “ Flights for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST)” aims at:
- Fostering the continuing development of a critical mass of researchers and HQP by providing a training ground for both the current and next generation of scientists and engineers;
- Supporting the development of science and technology relevant to the priorities of the CSA through the use of research platforms including stratospheric balloons, aircraft, sounding rockets, nanosatellites, cubesats, ground-based facilities and field sites.
More specifically, this project is entitled “BRITE-Constellation Science”.
Canadian graduate students and postdocs will be hired to put them at the front lines of astrophysical research with the BRITE (BRight Target Explorer) Constellation space satellite mission - a flotilla of six nanosatellites operated by Canada, Austria and Poland. BRITE Constellation will monitor for long stretches of time the brightness and colour variations of most of the brightest stars visible to the eyein the night sky. These stars include some of the most massive and luminous stars in the Galaxy, many of which are precursors to supernova explosions.
Students and postdocs involved in this project will contribute to unprecedented advances in our understanding of such stars and their dominant role in the 'ecology' of the Universe (the life cycles of the current and future generations of stars).