• your company has a breakthrough food innovation opportunity that can benefit from support

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• you have a new ingredient, product, technology, service or process that is ripe for further research, development or commercialization

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• you’re a thought leader in automation, robotics, or food safety and want collaborators

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• you’re looking for opportunities to invest in innovation

Who can participate?

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Canadian business-led collaborations (with at least one SME) keen to ignite transformative innovation.

 

All project partners must be incorporated in Canada, or working within Canadian research institutions, and be CFIN members.

Project size

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Our competitive, merit-based process will review projects ranging from $1M to $4M

Investment

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Project teams are required to contribute 50% of total eligible project costs and to provide a project management fee of 5% of total eligible project costs.

Timeline (key dates)

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Letter of intent template  - week of Oct 4, 2021

Information sessions - Oct 13 and 20, 2021

Letters of intent due - Nov 15, 2021

Full proposals due - Jan 10, 2022 
Projects awarded - Mar 2022 
Projects start - Apr 2022 
Projects complete - no later than Mar 31, 2025