Grants and Contributions

The objective of the EAF is to support community based projects across Canada that improve accessibility, remove barriers, and enable Canadians with disabilities to participate in and contribute to their community.

Researchers will map gaming data practices to principles under PIPEDA including meaningful consent, safeguards, transparency, accountability and data minimizations. They will then measure youth understanding of commercial data practices in gaming environments. Finally, they will translate the privacy principles into structured, bilingual classroom learning delivered nationally through the Digital Moment platform, reaching approximately 15,000 unique students and up to 500 educators nationally. Researchers will analyze anonymized aggregate participation data to identify patterns, trends and disparities in privacy literacy across age groups and regions.

The Association des services de réhabilitation sociale du Québec (ASRSQ) is a Canadian nonprofit organization that brings together and supports community-based organizations working toward the social and professional reintegration of individuals with criminal records in Quebec. It promotes collaboration among community organizations, institutional partners, and public authorities to improve support for individuals with criminal records, prevent recidivism, and contribute to public safety. Through its activities supporting organizations, training practitioners, and representing the sector, the ASRSQ directly contributes to social cohesion, the sustainable reintegration of individuals involved with the justice system, and the objectives of Public Safety Canada.

The Project aims to integrate NRC’s VitalSeer technology, a contactless, camera-based system that uses computer vision and AI to monitor vital signs into Baüne’s Autonomous Care Unit (ACU™). The ACU™ system delivers real-time, personalized care through a modular and scalable digital health ecosystem that integrates Point-of-Care (PoC) technologies and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices. It supports autonomous, contactless health assessments and predictive analytics, enabling early detection of health
deterioration and enhancing primary care delivery across urban, rural, and remote setting. Designed to improve accessibility and inclusivity, the upgraded system supports preventative care in community and home-based settings. It features real-time, contactless vital sign monitoring, predictive analytics, and streamlined data collection to enable early intervention, particularly addressing fall risks among seniors aged 65+, which cost Canada $5.6 billion in 2018. Deployment at Baüne’s ACU™ system has already supported
proactive home-based health management in community settings (CLSC Pierrefonds and CIUSSS-ODIM partner sites), and the addition of the NRC’s VitalSeer technology will improve senior’s safety at home by using validated, with optional minimally invasive modes for enhanced precision or continuous data collection.

Non-pharmacological interventions centered around lifestyle modifications, especially sleep, constitute promising approaches to delay the onset or progression of neurodegenerative diseases impacting cognition. An important challenge for the implementation of such interventions is the ability to deliver them in an accessible and ecological context. To address these challenges, we will integrate a validated sleep intervention - cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia (eCBTi+) - from CRIUGM’s e-SPACE web platform into DigiSensing, a digital phenotyping platform and smartphone application developed at NRC. This integration aims to enhance accessibility, acceptability, engagement, and adherence among older adults, while enabling more personalized treatment and
feedback. The integrated solution will first be tested and refined with selected participants before broader deployment across Canada to assess its acceptability and usability among older adults living in their communities.Additionally, effectiveness of the intervention will be assessed using objective and subjective sleep-related outcomes.

Pursue short-term research and/or teaching activities in Latin America and the Caribbean as a means of exploring, creating and advancing institutional partnerships in the areas of research, student mobility, joint programming, capacity building, and others

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Use artificial intelligence to identify export opportunities for small businesses

The objective of the EAF is to support community based projects across Canada that improve accessibility, remove barriers, and enable Canadians with disabilities to participate in and contribute to their community.

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.