Call for Collaborative Research Proposals Between Canada and India IC-IMPACTS Centres of Excellence Letter of Intent Deadline: This is an open call. LOI submissions will be reviewed on July 7, September 8 and November 3, 2014 IC-IMPACTS Centres of Excellence was established through the Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) Canada India Research Centre [...]
SOWC benefited from a $19.58 million investment from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) and an $8.9 million investment from the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Research & Innovation's Ontario Research Fund in August 2011. These funds were made available to implement the project proposed and developed by the [...]
Strategic Network Grant Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Deadline: June 2, 2014 (Preliminary Applications) Strategic Network Grants (SNG) fund large-scale, multidisciplinary research projects in targeted research areas that require a network approach and that involve collaboration between academic researchers and Canadian-based organizations (e.g., Canadian-based companies or government departments/agencies that can apply the research [...]
Dr. Ed McBean is a Canada Research Chair in Water Supply Security, Professor, and Assistant Dean of External Partnerships at the College of Physical and Engineering Science at the University of Guelph. Dr. McBean is also the Wastewater node leader for the SOWC – a segment of the platform that is supporting capacity for the [...]
The Southern Ontario Water Consortium, in collaboration with our partners, is preparing an application for funding to a grant program of the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev) called "Investing in Commercialization Partnerships." We are proposing to create a cluster to consolidate the exceptional assets already in place in the province and greatly [...]
Scientific Research and Development Tax Incentive Programs Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Tax Incentive Program - (FEDERAL) The SR&ED Program is a federal tax incentive program to encourage Canadian businesses of all sizes and in all sectors to conduct research and development (R&D) in Canada that will lead to new, improved, or technologically advanced [...]
The SOWC regularly highlights timely external funding programs that may be of interest to our subscribers. Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) Program: Round 25 – Calls for Statement of Interest (SOI) SOI Deadline: April 16, 2014 On behalf of the Government of Canada, SDTC helps commercialize Canadian clean technologies, readying them for growth and export [...]
Highlighting the technical specifications of the SOWC Drinking Water node facilities, a new one-page facility overview is available on the SOWC Resource page for downloading. Each overview provides a high-level summary of SOWC node facility capacity for prospective SOWC industry partners. Along with the new Drinking Water overview, currently available facility overviews include the Watershed [...]
Starting this month, the SOWC will highlight timely external funding programs that may be of interest to our subscribers. Great Lakes Protection Fund Pre-Proposal deadline: February 3, 2014 The Great Lakes Protection Fund seeks to support a suite of projects that will design, develop, test and evaluate innovations to advance the next generation of actions [...]
The SOWC Guelph Wastewater event hosted more than 125 attendees eager to learn more about the platform 2013 has been a very busy and exciting year for the SOWC. Over the past 12 months, we have been working hard to deliver a platform for water technology research, development, demonstration and testing needs. We [...]