Call for Innovation (Canada)

Priority Areas

• Non-dilutive investment will be awarded to projects that align with the following priority areas:
  • Low Carbon Bio and Synthetic Fuels – Innovations in synthetic fuel production, advanced biofuel production, and biocarbon products like biochar, bio-oil, and syngas.
  • Battery and Energy Storage – Innovative solutions that enhance battery performance, safety, and sustainability.
  • Low Carbon Hydrogen – Solutions that promote hydrogen end-use that de-risks hydrogen adoption and create demand.
  • Carbon Management – Technologies and practices addressing the mitigation, prevention, and suppression of wildfires.

Eligible Uses of Funds

• Project funds can be used to pay salaries, consultants, and reasonable direct costs related to the project proposed in the application. Funds can also be used to secure demonstration sites (including the operating costs of demonstrations), build prototypes, integrate system components, demonstrate pilot production or scale up manufacturing

Ineligible Uses of Funds

• Project funds cannot be used to enhance normal business operational capabilities, purchase capital equipment, perform capital or leasehold improvements or purchase furniture or other equipment to be used in the routine course of business. Project funds cannot be used for advertising or other forms of business promotion. Human resource costs cannot be ‘marked up’ to include blanket overheads

Eligible Activities

• Project activities may include, but are not limited to:
  • Integrating and testing components in a laboratory or simulated environment to validate or improve technology reliability
  • Demonstrating prototypes or system models in operational environments to enhance technological maturity
  • Demonstrating and implementing plans to scale technology production
  • Linking system components to create complete solutions
  • Developing standards to enable technology deployment
  • Creating business partnerships to demonstrate system solutions and conducting demonstration projects with potential customers.

Eligibility Criteria

• CICE will accept applications for project funding from incorporated organizations with a B.C. presence. Companies must demonstrate effective management, operational capacity, and sufficient financial backing to complete their project and advance their commercial potential.
• Consortia of companies working together to complete a project are acceptable and welcomed. In such cases a single lead company must become the applicant.

For more information, visit CICE.