With our Seed Funds, the Ocean Frontier Institute supports ocean-related projects that offer high potential for innovation success.
The Ocean Frontier Institute is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Seed Fund.
OFI awarded 27 Seed Funds this round, across Dalhousie University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of Prince Edward Island, and University of New Brunswick.
Thank you to our partners NBIF, NSERC, Innovacorp, FSRS, and OERA, who together sponsored 10 projects for this round of the Seed Fund, and Mitacs for for providing further support to Early Career Researchers.
Full list of projects awarded:
Dalhousie University operates in the unceded territories of the Mi’kmaw, Wolastoqey, and Peskotomuhkati Peoples. These sovereign nations hold inherent rights as the original peoples of these lands, and we each carry collective obligations under the Peace and Friendship Treaties. Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 recognizes and affirms Aboriginal and Treaty rights in Canada.
We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province.
