Organizations that adopt digital transformation can operate more effectively and accomplish more with fewer resources. Technology plays a big part in helping your organization accomplish its goals.
The main reason for not moving further with technology installation is typically cost. Many of your operations can be streamlined with the help of a technology grant, which will enable your staff and volunteers to work more productively and affordably. Technology grants enable organizations to get the tools and applications they need to run efficiently and raise money.
We’ll define technology grants, describe where to look for them, and provide you with some actual instances of technology grants you could apply for.
Quantum Sensing Innovative Solutions Canada
The Government of Canada (GoC) is particularly interested in quantum sensing technology in various areas. High-resolution imaging applications are being pursued in various fields, including health and pharmaceutical, mining, aviation and aerospace. The Government of Canada is interested in utilizing recent developments in magnetic sensor sensitivity and cost reductions to improve the GoC’s magnetic sensing capabilities. The Canadian government is also interested in short- and long-range navigation capabilities in GPS-denied situations. While quantum radar is a speculative technology at the moment, we are interested in evaluating the components that could one day move the technology from idea to application.
Eligible applicants: Only small businesses that meet all of the following criteria can submit solution proposals:
- incorporated in Canada for profit (federally or provincially)
- 499 or fewer full-time equivalent (FTE) workers engaged in research and development activities in Canada
- Employees and contractors who spend most of their time working in Canada currently receive 50% or more of their yearly wages, salaries, and fees.
- Fifty percent or more of its FTE personnel work in Canada regularly.
- Canada is the primary residence of 50% or more of its senior executives (Vice President and above).
Submission Deadline: July 6, 2022
Contact Name: Innovative Solutions Canada
E-mail Address: [email protected].
Robot Round-up – Advanced Robotics Platforms and Control Solutions
The Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Contest, Robot Round-up, invites Canadian inventors to show DND/CAF how improvements in robotic platforms and control systems can be used to assist CAF members in performing high-risk jobs.
Over the next 20 years, the IDEaS initiative will spend $1.6 billion on defense and security breakthroughs.
Eligible applicants: Eligible recipients for financing under the IDEaS Contests Program must be a legally incorporated and lawfully operating legal organization in Canada, such as:
- Incorporated Canadian not-for-profit organizations or associations; Incorporated Canadian for-profit enterprises, organizations, or associations; and Provincial/territorial or municipal government entities.
- Crown corporations at the federal and provincial levels are not eligible for funding.
Submission Deadline: August 2, 2022.
Contact Name: Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS)
E-mail Address:[email protected]
Zayed Sustainability Prize
The Zayed Sustainability Prize, an outgrowth of the Zayed Future Energy Prize, is the UAE’s pioneering global prize in sustainability and a memorial to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the UAE’s late founding father.
This annual award, established in 2008, recognizes and rewards people who are creating significant, innovative, and inspiring sustainability solutions across five unique categories: Health, Food, Energy, Water, and Global High Schools.
Eligible applicants
Projects that provide impact, creativity, and inspiration to achieve long-term solutions in five key categories:
- Health- for the betterment of all global people
- Food for the abolition of hunger
- Energy – to provide widespread access to energy
- Water – for universal access to safe drinking water
- Global High Schools are designed to empower present and future generations.
Deadline Date: July 6, 2022
Contact Name: Zayed Sustainability Prize
Phone Number: +971 2 653 3333
E-mail Address: [email protected]
Canada Digital Adoption Program
The Canadian government established the $4 billion Canada Digital Adoption Program (CDAP) to help get your business online, increase your e-commerce presence, or digitalize your organization’s processes.
CDAP offers businesses to finance and support, as well as training and job possibilities for young Canadians.
Eligible applicants
- Expand Your Online Business
- Apply for a micro-grant and gain access to e-commerce experts to assist you in going digital and capitalizing on e-commerce opportunities.
- Eligible businesses will be awarded a micro-grant of up to $2,400 to assist with the costs of implementing digital technologies. Grants will be made available to local and regional service providers throughout Canada. In addition, the service providers will support a network of e-commerce advisors that will advise and assist small businesses in adopting e-commerce.
- Improve Your Company’s Technology
- Apply for a grant to assist you in developing a digital strategy, and take advantage of sponsored work placements to aid in your digital transformation.
- The grant covers up to 90% of the eligible cost of hiring a digital adviser to build a digital adoption plan, with a maximum grant value of $15,000 per SME.
Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Contact Name: Innovation, Science and Economic Development
Phone Number: 1-800-328-6189
Aerospace Regional Recovery Initiative (ARRI)
The Aerospace Regional Recovery Initiative (ARRI) will assist the Canadian aerospace sector in recovering from the epidemic and resuming global competition. The initiative will help small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) achieve the following three goals:
to green their operations and embrace environmentally sustainable methods in order to boost production and sales while deepening integration into regional and global supply chains
Eligible applicants: Companies in the aerospace industry and organizations that support them are welcome to apply. This includes the following:
- small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs)
- non-profit organizations that provide services to SMEs
Applicants from indigenous communities
Indigenous businesses and groups are encouraged to apply using the process outlined below. RDAs can contribute up to 100 percent of eligible project expenditures for initiatives with Indigenous clientele under the initiative.
Date of Submission: With a three-year budget of $250 million (until March 31, 2024)
Contact Name: Canada’s regional development agencies
Phone Number: 1-888-338-9378
Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF)
The Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) provides funding for large-scale, transformative, and collaborative projects to help Canada thrive in the global knowledge-based economy. SIF projects boost the Canadian industry’s long-term competitiveness, clean growth, and the advancement of Canada’s strategic technical advantage.
The program is divided into two parts:
- Business Growth and Innovation (Streams 1 to 3)
Encourage R&D that accelerates technology transfer and commercialization of new goods, processes, and services; promote firm growth and expansion in Canada; and attract and retain large-scale investments in Canada.
- Networks and Collaborations (Streams 4 & 5)
Advance industrial R&D and technology demonstration through collaboration between the business sector, researchers, and non-profit organizations, and support large-scale, national innovation ecosystems across Canada through high-impact collaborations.
Eligible applicants:
- Business Growth and Innovation (Streams 1 to 3)
- Be a for-profit corporation – small, medium, or large – incorporated under Canadian law and planning to conduct business and undertake projects in Canada.
- Request a minimum SIF contribution of $10 million for a proposal with at least $20 million in total costs.
- Provide audited financial accounts (or similar) for the previous three years, as well as a willingness to make long-term commitments to Canada (e.g., job creation and maintenance, R&D investments, and other public benefits).
Collaborations and Networks (Streams 4 & 5) – Stream 4 issues competitive calls for proposals depending on government goals. Stream 5 applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
- Be incorporated in Canada as a for-profit or non-profit organization.
- Collaborations with Canadian universities and/or colleges, research institutions, for-profit and/or not-for-profit organizations, and/or not-for-profit organizations
- Support large-scale ecosystems on a national scale.
- Launch nationwide cooperation projects,
- Request a minimum SIF contribution of $10 million for a proposal with at least $20 million in total costs.
- Provide audited financial accounts (or equivalent) for the previous three years, as well as
- Be willing to commit to Canada long-term (e.g., collaborations with public and private entities, R&D investments, co-op/work-integrated learning opportunities).
Deadline: Ongoing
Contact Name: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Phone Number: 1-800-328-6189
Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS)
The CAF will offer Participants access to a range setting where the CAF will operate several UAS systems in a suitable way and distances for the scenario. As appropriate to their solution, the Participant will demonstrate the functionality and capacity of their technology in detecting and/or combating the UAS.
Eligible applicants: This CFA is available to people, academic institutions, non-profit organizations, and businesses of all sizes, as well as provincial, territorial, and local governments.
Federal government departments/agencies and federal Crown corporations are not eligible to apply to this CFA.
Deadline: Ongoing
Contact Name: Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS)
Jobs and Growth Fund in Western Canada
The Jobs and Prosperity Fund assists businesses and organizations in creating jobs and positioning local economies for long-term growth. The Fund, administered by Canada’s regional development agencies (RDAs), provides $700 million over three years, with up to $70 million earmarked to enterprises established after January 2020 that meet eligibility criteria.
Eligible applicants
- businesses (primarily small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 FTEs);
- and indigenous organizations such as not-for-profits and businesses, including but not limited to First Nations as represented by their Chief and Council, Tribal Councils, Indigenous Representative Organizations, Métis and Inuit organizations and Settlements, and Indigenous/First Nation/Métis Settlement-owned organizations.
The JGF will fund projects that will: contribute to near-term employment creation and long-term resilience; and
- green economy transition
- encourage an inclusive rehabilitation
- maintain Canada’s competitiveness, future-proof SMEs, and boost resilience through productivity enhancement and digital adoption to build capacity in sectors vital to Canada’s recovery and growth
Deadline: Ongoing.
Contact Name: Western Economic Diversification Canada
Phone Number: 1-888-338-9378
E-mail Address:[email protected]
SD Tech Fund | Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC)
We want Canadian companies to compete and be world leaders in clean technology, a $2.5 trillion opportunity. Since its inception in 2001, SDTC has invested over $1.28 billion in 450 Canadian firms. And we’d like to do more. We’re changing the way we do business so that we can keep up with the competition.
SDTC funds innovative clean technology research and demonstration initiatives at the start-up or scale-up stage. For example, when the technology has progressed beyond proof-of-concept but is still in the early stages of commercialization. The technology must demonstrate the potential for reduced GHG emissions, reduced water use, and/or reduced water, soil, or air contamination. The project must contain some further development of the technology, mitigation of existing technology risk, and validation of the technology’s economic viability.
The companies we now sponsor are highlighted here, clearly understanding the wide range of projects we have supported.
Eligible applicants
- A Canadian corporation with a specific project.
- A compelling end-user value proposition
- The possibility of attracting a consortium partner to validate the market need and
- Environmental and economic benefits for Canadians have been demonstrated.
Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Contact Name: SD Tech Fund
Phone Number: (613) 234-6313
E-mail Address:[email protected]
Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) Supercluster Projects
Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen), an industry-focused, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to establishing world-leading advanced manufacturing capabilities in Canada, leads Canada’s advanced manufacturing Supercluster. NGen aims to connect and improve collaboration between manufacturers and technology companies to speed the development, adoption, and scale-up of revolutionary capabilities in Canadian manufacturing.
The goal is to strengthen Canada’s manufacturing sector’s competitiveness, drive more innovation and investment in advanced manufacturing technologies in Canada, create new commercial opportunities for Canadian companies in global markets, grow more large-scale world-leading Canadian enterprises, and develop a modern and inclusive workforce with advanced manufacturing skills.
Eligible applicants
- Any NGen (Canada’s advanced manufacturing Supercluster) member may apply for project funding or be considered a partner or co-investor in Supercluster projects.
- Supercluster recipients must be Canadian corporations.
- Money recipients must be either for-profit or not-for-profit organizations that enable and fund research and development and obtain most of their funding from private-sector enterprises.
- Other publicly funded not-for-profit organizations, post-secondary institutions, federal Crown corporations, and government departments or agencies are not eligible to receive Supercluster funding directly. Still, they may contribute to projects or be subcontracted to carry out project activities by funded recipients.
Deadline: Varies
Contact Name: Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen)
Conclusion
Have you thought about how a technology grant, out of all the grant kinds you can apply for, can improve every other procedure and operation in your organization? Many technological grants are available, but you should be aware that fierce competition exists.
Make sure your organization is eligible for the rules before applying for a technology grant by reading through them. Make sure to comply with the requirements by carefully reading the terms and conditions of each grant.
While a technology grant might not entirely support your objectives, it could help your business reach the next level of productivity.
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