Deadline: 11-Aug-20
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has launched its 2020 Call for Proposals under its Accelerated Ocean Solutions Program (AOSP).
Through the second Call for Proposals, Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is further investing in the AOSP to trigger additional industry investment in innovation and capability-building in oceans during this challenging time. This is a deadline-driven, competitive opportunity for projects that can be completed in less than two years.
Thematic Areas
The AOSP July 2020 Call for Proposals remains focused on three Project Themes:
- Remote operations;
- Digital/automated technologies;
- Environmental technologies.
Funding Information
Maximum budget: The maximum OSC funding contribution cannot exceed $2M per project.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Lead Applicant must have operations in Canada and be a member of the OSC.
- At least one small-medium sized enterprise (less than 499 employees) must be directly involved and benefit from the project.
- The project must demonstrate meaningful collaboration between a minimum of two organizations. The OSC encourages collaboration with private and public sectors organizations including companies, startups, non-profits, and other publicly funded research institutions.
- All projects must be incremental to the regular business undertakings of applicants. Successful EOI applicants will be required to assert that their proposal is not a project in progress at the applicant(s) organization(s), and that the proposed project is new or that OSC funding will be used to expand the scope or scale of a proposed project.
- Projects that do not contribute sufficient industry contributions for the requested OSC funding
will not be processed.
Selection Criteria
- EOIs and proposals will be evaluated by an OSC Call Evaluation Committee (CEC), and selection recommendations will be ratified by the OSC Board of Directors. All individuals involved in the evaluation process will be under an OSC non-disclosure agreement and in compliance with OSC’s Conflict of Interest Policy.
- Applicants will be notified of the selection outcome and any conditions for funding. Applicants may be requested by the CEC to revise one or more aspects of their proposal before their project’s selection outcome is finalized.
- Selected applicants are required to enter into a Project Agreement, which sets out the terms and conditions related to funding.
For more information, visit https://oceansupercluster.ca/projects/accelerated-ocean-solutions-program/