Funding in Ontario
EVAMAX serves clients across all of Canada. There are grants and incentives applicable Canada-wide and for specific provinces.
| Funding Programs | About the Program | Region | Learn More |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic Innovation Fund – Stream 5 (National Ecosystems) | The Strategic Innovation Fund supports businesses with large projects in innovation efforts that have commercialization potential. This stream supports innovation that will highly impact Canadian ecosystems. | Canada-wide | |
| Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster – Pilot Project Program (NGen) | NGen's goal is to strengthen collaboration between manufactures and technology companies to accelerate the development, adoption and scale-up of transformative capabilities in Canadian manufacturing. This program focuses on helping small- or medium-sized businesses scale-up plans for implementation, prepare technologies for production, and de-risk technology adoption. | Canada-wide | |
| Strategic Innovation Fund – Stream 4 (Collaborative Technology Development and Demonstration) | The Strategic Innovation Fund supports businesses with large projects in innovation efforts that have commercialization potential. This stream supports research and large-scale technology demonstrations. | Canada-wide | |
| NRC-IRAP | IRAP supports the innovation efforts of small and medium-sized Canadian enterprises with projects that strive to solve internal challenges that lead to new products, enhanced productivity, or competitive advantages. This can include market assessment, technology validation, R&D technology development. | Canada-wide | |
| SR&ED | The SR&ED/SRED program is a tax incentive program meant to encourage Canadian businesses to conduct research and development (R&D) in Canada. The tax incentives come in three forms: an income tax deduction, an investment tax credit (ITC), and in certain circumstances, a refund. | Canada-wide | |
| Sustainable Development Technology Canada | This program supports Canadian companies in their efforts to develop and demonstrate new environmental technologies that address climate change, clean air, clean water, and clean soil. | Canada-wide | |
| Strategic Innovation Fund – Stream 1 (R&D and Commercialization) | The Strategic Innovation Fund supports businesses with large projects in innovation efforts that have commercialization potential. This stream focuses on R&D that will accelerate technology transfer and commercialization of innovative products, processes, and services. | Canada-wide | |
| Strategic Innovation Fund – Stream 2 (Firm Expansion and Growth) | The Strategic Innovation Fund supports businesses with large projects in innovation efforts that have commercialization potential. This stream supports expansion or material improvement of existing industrial/ technological facilities or projects. | Canada-wide | |
| Strategic Innovation Fund – Stream 3 (Investment attraction and reinvestment) | The Strategic Innovation Fund supports businesses with large projects in innovation efforts that have commercialization potential. This stream supports new investment in Canadian industrial/ technological facilities. | Canada-wide | |
| Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster – Project Program (NGen) | NGen's goal is to strengthen collaboration between manufactures and technology companies to accelerate the development, adoption and scale-up of transformative capabilities in Canadian manufacturing. This program focuses on collaborative transformative manufacturing and technology projects that will leave a lasting legacy for Canada's advanced manufacturing ecosystem. | Canada-wide | |
| Digital Supercluster | The Digital Supercluster offers programs that help fund collaborative projects among its members that build world class digital technologies. | Canada-wide | |
| SCALE-AI | This program is aimed to support collaborative efforts to improve AI adoption and AI-based product commercialization. | Canada-wide | |
| CAP Agri-Innovate | This program supports projects that aim to accelerate the demonstration, commercialization, or adoption of innovative products, technologies, processes or services that increase agri-sector competitiveness and sustainability. | Canada-wide | |
| CAP Agri-Science Projects | This program aims to increase innovation by providing funding and support for pre-commercial science activities and research in the Canadian agriculture and agri-food sector. | Canada-wide | |
| Quantum Leap | The goal of this program is to support projects that aim to develop innovative technologies, tools and platforms that accelerate or facilitate the drug discovery/development process. | Canada-wide | |
| Innovative Solutions Canada | This program has rotating challenges that call for projects to conduct research and development and testing of prototypes in real-life settings. | Canada-wide | |
| Dairy Processing Investment Fund | This program aims to assist dairy processors in adapting to market changes resulting from the Canadian-European Union's comprehensive and economic trade agreement. | Canada-wide | |
| Matching Investment Fund | This program aims to encourage growth and innovation in the manufacturing and use of Canadian dairy products and ingredients. | Canada-wide | |
| Southwestern Ontario Development Fund (SWODF) | This program is aimed to support economic development in southwestern Ontario by supporting projects that create jobs, attract private sector investment, lead to business growth, and encourage innovation. | ON | |
| Next Generation Networks (NGN) Demonstration | This program supports Ontario businesses to use the CENGN testbed to further develop proof-of-concept or demonstrations that could lead to new technologies, products, or services. | ON | |
| South Ontario Fund for Investment in Innovation | This program supports high-growth, innovative small- or medium-sized organizations to increase their growth and innovation. Activities include late-stage commercialization; development or implementation of new technologies, products, services, or processes; and new applications/markets. | ON | |
| Protein Industries Superclusters | This program supports projects that will accelerate innovation and the competitiveness of the plant protein sector. | Canada-wide | |
| OCI – Voucher with Innovation and Productivity (VIP) | This program funds collaborative innovation efforts between Ontario businesses and post-secondary institutions. These projects should generate economic benefits for Ontario’s businesses in a short-term time frame. | ON | |
| AVIN Wintertech Development Program | This program supports the validation, testing, demonstration, and prototyping of mobility products and services in order to meet the demands of severe winter weather conditions. | ON | |
| AV R&D Partnership Fund: Stream 1: Collaborative R&D project | This program provides funding to collaborative projects that develop and demonstrate technologies in the Connected and Autonomous Vehicle sector. | ON | |
| AV R&D Partnership Fund: Stream 2: Technology demonstration project | This program provides funding to projects that develop and demonstrate technologies in the Connected and Autonomous Vehicle sector. | ON | |
| ENCQOR 5G Technology Development (SME) Program (5G SDP) | This program provides funding for collaborative technology development projects to develop, integrate, test, or validate pre-commercial technologies in response to one of the Challenge Statements. | ON | |
| NOHFC INVEST North Program – Innovation Stream | This program supports applied research and development projects, and projects which aim to demonstrate and commercialize new and innovative technologies. | ON | |
| Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) Program | The focus of this program is to invest in innovative technologies that will contribute to a more diversified, higher value product mix in the forest sector. | Canada-wide | |
| NSERC Alliance | This program encourages partnerships between organizations and university researchers to generate new knowledge and create benefits to Canada. | Canada-wide | |
| CAP Technology Solutions | This program supports projects that focus on piloting and demonstrating new and innovative technologies related to labour-saving technologies or practices, waste reduction, and/or increased efficiency. | ON | |
| CAP Canadian Agricultural Strategic Priorities Program (CASPP) | This program supports projects that address national or sector-wide priorities that help the agricultural industry address emerging issues and capitalize on opportunities. | Canada-wide | |
| CAP Place to Grow: Agri-Food Innovative Initiative | This program focuses on collaborative projects that will accelerate the creation and adoption of innovative solutions to sector challenges and advance sector opportunities to increase competition and sustainability. This program is currently closed and will reopen in May. | ON | |
| CAP Food Safety and Traceability systems improvement | This program supports projects with a focus on building the agricultural industry's capacity to recognize and manage their own risks and take advantage of market opportunities by providing support for food safety and traceability applied research, pilots, and demonstrations. This program is currently closed. | ON | |
| CAP Market Products | This program provides support for projects that aim to significantly increase product sales internationally. This program is currently closed. | ON | |
| Ontario Automotive Modernization Program | This program supports projects that are aimed to help modernize Ontario's automotive supply chain and increase competition. This program is currently closed. | ON | |
| Ocean Supercluster | This program is aimed to bring together organizations from all sectors to develop and commercialize globally-relevant ocean solutions. This program is currently closed. | Canada-wide | |
| Canada Ontario Job Grant | This program helps employers invest in training for current and future employees, with the goal of increasing Ontario’s labour force through skill development. Through this program, the employer applies on behalf of their employee(s) for eligible training costs. | ON | |
| NRC IRAP – Funding to Hiring Young Graduates | This program focuses on supporting companies in hiring youth workers (age between 15-30 years) to contribute to their innovation efforts. The internships should be 6-12 months in length and within Canada; the program will share a portion of the salary costs, not including overhead costs and incentives | Canada-wide | |
| Magnet Student Work Placement Program | The Student Work Placement program connects employers, students, and post-secondary school stakeholders to create quality work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities. The student can be from any program of study, and there is no restriction on the type of position. | Canada-wide | |
| Talent Opportunities Program (TOP) | This program connects employers, students, and post-secondary school stakeholders to create quality work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities. The placement must be a “Net New” placement which are positions that are incremental and are above what employers were able to hire the year before at the similar time. | Canada-wide | |
| Empowering Futures Program | The Empowering Futures Program is Canada’s Student Work Placement Program (SWPP) for the electricity industry. Aimed at preparing students for the future of work, the program helps to create new work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities in electricity by providing subsidies of up to the employers who create these new opportunities. | Canada-wide | |
| The Technation Career Ready Program (formerly ITAC) | This program supports businesses by helping finance the hire of a student for a work-term placement. Technation support any tech-immersive roles. You do not need to be a tech company to provide tech skills development. | Canada-wide | |
| Subsidized Digital Tech Internships | The program provides employers with 500 employees or less with wage subsidies to hire young (age 15-30) post-secondary graduates in a position within a digital field. This program is currently closed. | Canada-wide | |
| ICTC’s WIL Digital | This program offers subsidies to employers who create work opportunities for students. WIL Digital creates industry-education partnerships and explores innovative work-integrated learning models. | Canada-wide | |
| ECO Canada Student Work Placement Program | This program is a part of Government of Canada’s Student Work Placement Program (SWAPP). It is targeted to the positions in the environmental sector and students in a STEM, arts, or business program. Net new refers to positions that are incremental and are above what employers were able to hire the year before at the similar time. | Canada-wide | |
| Level UP STEM Projects | This program allows employers to bring on Canadian post-secondary students for 80-hour paid STEM projects. | Canada-wide | |
| Co-Operative Education Tax Credit | This tax credit is applied for along with corporate taxes. For any prior year tax credits that were not applied for, an amendment can be requested within 3 years of the initial assessment. This program applies to students that are hired in a co-op program from an Ontario university/college. | Canada-wide | |
| TECTERRA – HIRE Program | This program provides funding for businesses that hire highly qualified personnel for development or commercialization purposes aimed to help Canadian Geospatial technology companies achieve commercial success. The Focus is on projects that can create jobs, contribute to company growth, and diversify the economy. | Canada-wide | |
| Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium | Through the Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium, the Government of Canada delivers the Student Work Placement Program (SWPP) to Canada's manufacturing sectors. | Canada-wide | |
| Digital Skills for Youth Program ECO Canada | This program offers funding for employers who are hiring youth who are unemployed or underemployed post-secondary graduates. The goal is to promote the development of digital and soft skills through work experience and training. Funding is available for positions with a Digital Skill focus in the environmental sector. This program is currently closed. | Canada-wide | |
| Canada Summer Jobs | Canada Summer Jobs is an initiative of the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy, which aims to provide flexible and holistic services to help all young Canadians develop the skills and gain paid work experience to successfully transition into the labour market. | Canada-wide | |
| Mitacs Accelerate | This program aims to connect top-ranked research talent with industrial partners to help solve the company’s research challenges. Internships must be 4 months at minimum and can be scaled up as needed. | Canada-wide | |
| ICTC’s Digital Skills for Youth Program | This program connects Canadian employers with university and college graduates between 18-30 years old to receive training and meaningful work experience to help transition to full-time employment. This program is currently closed. | Canada-wide | |
| Youth Employment Placement Program | This program supports the hire of youth (e.g. 30 years old or younger) in STEM or natural resources related roles in the environmental sector. The funding is for paid full-time work terms between 6-12 months in length. This program is currently closed. | Canada-wide | |
| NSERC Engage | This program provides businesses knowledge, expertise and capabilities available from Canadian universities and colleges. These grants are intended to foster the development of new research partnerships by supporting short-term research and development projects aimed at addressing a company-specific problem. | Canada-wide | |
| NOHFC People and Talent Program – Workforce Development Stream | The People & Talent Program is designed to attract, retain and develop Northern Ontario’s workforce. This program is meant to strengthen and develop Northern Ontario’s workforce through business partnerships by offering internships. | ON | |
| NOHFC People and Talent Program – Indigenous Workforce Development Stream | The People & Talent Program is designed to attract, retain and develop Northern Ontario’s workforce. This program is meant to strengthen and develop Northern Ontario’s Indigenous workforce through business partnerships by offering internships to Indigenous persons. | ON | |
| TalentEdge Internship Program (TIP) – AVIN | The TalentEdge Internship Program (TIP) stream of the AVIN program provides support for current college and university students and recent undergraduate or Masters graduates, to work on industry driven research and development projects related to Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (C/AV) technologies. | ON | |
| ENCQOR 5G TalentEdge Interships | This program provides support for current college and university students and recent graduates, to work on industry-driven research and development projects related to 5G, wireless and digital technologies at Ontario-based SMEs. This program is currently closed. | ON | |
| FedDev Ontario – Business Scale Up and Productivity | This program supports business efforts to adopt/ adapt new, innovative technologies to help accelerate growth. The program hopes to assist in scale-up/ expansion, commercialization of new technologies, adaption/ adoption of leading-edge technologies/ processes, market diversification. | ON | |
| Canada Small Business Financing Program | This funding is provides loans to for-profit, small, Canadian businesses with gross revenues of $10 million or less. There is a registration fee associated with the program (2% of the loan) that can be included in the loan. This program is delivered and approved by financial institutions, and then they will register the loan with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. | Canada-wide | |
| CME Technology Assessment Program (TAP) | The Technology Assessment Program connects SME’s manufacturers in southern Ontario manufacturers with qualified experts to get customized technology assessments. | ON | |
| Market Readiness Program (OCE) | On behalf of the Government of Ontario, OCI supports early-stage companies that are raising pre-seed and seed investments (total round sizes range from $500,000 to $2 million). Market Readiness is a competitive co-investment fund. | ON | |
| NOHFC INVEST North Program – Grow Stream | The Invest North Program is designed to boost economic growth in Northern Ontario by encouraging businesses to invest in transformative, strategic and complementary business development opportunities in Northern communities. The program will support productivity, innovation, business competitiveness, revenue growth, export capacity development, job creation and retention. | ON | |
| Tourism Development Fund (TDF) | Through strategic project-based funding, the Tourism Development Fund will assist not-for-profit organizations, national and/or provincial industry sector associations, municipalities, and businesses to develop quality tourism products, encourage the competitiveness of our tourism sector organizations, stimulate increased tourist attendance and expenditures, and encourage private sector tourism investment in Ontario. | ON | |
| CanExport SMEs | This program supports small- to medium-sized enterprises collaborating with foreign partners in R&D efforts to co-develop, validate, or adapt their technologies for commercialization. | Canada-wide | |
| CanExport Innovation | This program supports small or medium-sized businesses in introducing their product/service to new international markets. | Canada-wide | |
| Soft Landing Program | This program is aimed to support Canadian businesses open in new markets, close international sales, secure investments, and connect with new partners by providing reimbursements for foreign travel costs. This program is currently closed. | Canada-wide | |
| Eastern Ontario Development Fund | This program offers loans and grants to businesses and community economic development projects for economic development in Eastern Ontario. | ON | |
| Ontario Creates – Export Fund: Book | This program is designed to support Ontario book publishing businesses to participate in international activities that will lead to business and market growth and development. This program is currently closed. | ON | |
| Ontario Creates – Export Fund: Film and Television | This program is designed to support Ontario film or television production companies to participate in international activities that will lead to business and market growth and development. This program is currently closed. | ON | |
| Ontario Creates – IDM Fund: Global Market Development | This program is designed to support Ontario interactive digital media businesses to participate in international activities that will lead to business and market growth and development. This program is currently closed. | ON | |
| Creative Export Canada (CEC) | This program targets creative Canadian industries and aims to help generate export revenues. This program is currently closed. | Canada-wide | |
| AgriAssurance: SME Stream | The AgriAssurance Program: Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) component provides targeted support to companies to help implement third-party assurance certification projects that address international market requirements, thus helping expand export opportunities for Canadian agricultural and agri-food products. | Canada-wide |
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