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Sustainable Manufacturing Challenge │ Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen)

September 18, 2024

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NGen will invest up to $35 million of Global Innovation Cluster funding and is seeking more than $65 million from industry to launch over $100 million in new collaborative projects.

Description

The Sustainable Manufacturing Challenge is seeking projects that will support Canada’s path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and target challenges like emissions reduction. These Projects will aim to accelerate the application of Canadian cleantech and other advanced technologies to improve the environmental sustainability of Canadian manufacturing.

Eligible Applicants

  • Any NGen member company may apply for project funding or apply to be considered as a partner or co-investor in NGen-funded projects. It is free to become a member, please register at https://www.ngen.ca/membership.
  • Recipients of NGen funding must be a business registered in Canada and have a value- added presence beyond a sales office.
  • Funding recipients must be:
    • for-profit organizations,
    • not-for-profit organizations that facilitate and fund research and development on behalf of the ecosystem and whose funding and/or revenue is received primarily from private-sector or industry organizations,
    • non-federal Crown corporations whose funding is from commercial activities,
    • indigenous organizations.
    • Other publicly funded not-for-profit organizations, post-secondary institutions, federal Crown Corporations, and government departments or agencies are not eligible to receive Global Innovation Cluster funding directly, although they may bring their contributions to projects or be subcontracted by funded recipients to carry out project activities.
  • International organizations (offshore companies and research organizations without a registered business presence in Canada) may also participate in NGen-funded projects, but any project activity undertaken by these organizations will not be eligible for NGen funding.

Eligible Expenses

Eligible projects must meet NGen’s four core strategic criteria:

  • Transformative: must confer significant competitive advantage to Canadian industry
  • Collaborative: project must demonstrate meaningful collaboration with a minimum of two Canadian industry partners
  • Applied: project must have a short to medium path to commercialization, and generate significant commercial and economic benefits
  • Enduring: project must provide broader benefits to Canada’s advanced manufacturing ecosystem

Deadline Date

Project Screening Deadline: June 26, 2024; Final Application Deadline: September 18, 2024

Contact

Contact Name: Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen)

E-mail Address: smc@ngen.ca

Website: https://www.ngen.ca/funding/sustainable-manufacturing

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