News Archives: February - Funding Opportunities in Agriculture, Biotech, & Environmental Science
Alberta Bio future and its sub-programs focus primarily on projects that add value to biomass in agriculture and forestry, and create new and improved bio industrial products and bio industrial technologies.
Deadline: March 31, 2019
AAFC AgriScience Program – Projects
AgriScience Projects (Projects) ( a program under the Canadian Agricultural partnership): This component aims to support specific shorter-term research activities to help industry overcome challenges and address fiscal barriers experienced by small and emerging sectors. They also seek to mitigate high-risk opportunities that have the potential to yield significant returns.
Alberta Bio Future (ABF) and its sub-programs focus primarily on projects that add value to biomass in agriculture and forestry, and create new and improved bio industrial products and bio industrial technologies.
Deadline: March 31, 2019
Alberta Innovates: Water Innovation Program
Focused on the advancement of knowledge and innovation. To build projects to enhance scientific understanding and developing best practices in managing water security, risk and vulnerability. Ensure excellence in watershed stewardship and ecosystem management. Develop energy efficient technologies for increased water conservation, efficiency and productivity. Four key themes include: 1) future water supply and watershed management 2) healthy aquatic ecosystems 3) water use conservation, efficiency, and productivity and 4) water quality protection.
Funding up to $1M
Deadline: Continuous Intake
NRCan Green Construction through Wood (GCWood) Program
Objective: To encourage greater use of wood in construction projects in Canada.To catalyze a broader awareness of, and domestic capacity for, innovative tall wood buildings, timber bridges and low-rise wood buildings.
Deadline: Timber bridges expressions of interest open until March 25, 2019
MCCAC: Community Generation Capacity Building Program
The purpose of this program is to provide funding for projects with activities focused on pre-development of a specific community generation facility or enabling the development of community generation projects through partnerships and tools.
For projects seeking funding equal to or greater than $200,000, it is required that the recipient organization contribute a minimum of 10% of in-kind contributions or funds toward the total project budget.
Deadline February 22, 2019
Indigenous Forestry Initiative
Objective: provides funding to support Indigenous-led economic development in Canada’s forest sector.The funding aims to increase Indigenous participation in forestry-related opportunities, businesses, careers and governance. Categories include: environmental stewardship, use and management of forest resources, participation in the forest bio economy.
Deadline: applications accepted year round