The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has announced its 2023 Major Science Initiatives Fund decisions, allocating $628 million to 14 institutions and 19 projects.
Making the announcement on Friday, August 19 in Sudbury at SNOLAB was the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry. He said “Through this investment, we’re supporting our world-class research facilities that drive innovation and the researchers who are making important discoveries across the country. We’re making sure that Canada is equipped to support the next generation of researchers who will tackle the world’s most pressing issues and who will advance our society for all to thrive.”
Queen University’s SNOLAB, who hosted the event, received the second largest funding in the amount of $102 million. The largest award was to the University of Victoria’s Ocean Networks Canada who received $114,799,830.
Other notable awards that have some relation to the space sector include; SuperDARN Canada, which collaborates on the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network for global space weather; and the Université du Québec – Institut national de la recherche scientifique’s Advanced Laser Light Source.
Below is the full list of recipients.
Applicant Institution Project Title Max CFI Contribution Dalhousie University Ocean Tracking Network $38,528,919 IISD Experimental Lakes Area Inc. IISD Experimental Lakes Area Inc. $11,730,627 McMaster University Canadian Research Data Centre Network $17,471,597 Queen’s University Canadian Cancer Trials Group Operations and Statistics Centre at Queen’s University $19,457,683 SNOLAB $102,000,000 The Hospital for Sick Children CGEn – Canada’s national facility for genome sequencing and analysis $48,900,667 Université de Montréal Coalition Publica $10,362,092 Université du Québec – Institut national de la recherche scientifique Advanced Laser Light Source $3,394,900 Université Laval Canadian Research Icebreaker Amundsen $54,849,938 University of Alberta The Metabolomics Innovation Centre $8,339,183 GlycoNet Integrated Services $10,684,968 University of Guelph Centre for Biodiversity Genomics $8,987,000 University of Ottawa The André E. Lalonde Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility for Environmental Radionuclides $5,845,254 University of Saskatchewan Canadian Light Source Inc. $97,243,194 Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization $53,948,651 SuperDARN Canada: The Canadian Component of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network, A Global Space Weather Collaboration $2,604,037 The Global Water Futures Observatories $15,253,186 University of Western Ontario (The) Wind Engineering, Energy and Environment Research Facility (WindEEE) $3,887,057 University of Victoria Ocean Networks Canada $114,799,830 Total: 14 Total: 19 Total: $628,288,783