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Esposito Family Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Innovation grant

EFCIE Innovation Grants bring faculty mentors and students together in student-faculty teams to expand on initial student or faculty work either by developing a working prototype or by assessing the viability of a proposed solution in a rigorous manner. As part of this process, experts from EFCIE will mentor each student-faculty team in the areas of evaluating market opportunities and guiding validated solutions to society.

Term: 1 year

Value: 

Applications invited: December 1, 2023 onward
Application deadline: February 29, 2024 

 

2024 Awardees

Amber Feaver (Dr. Justin Lee) $4000.00 - Biology, Faculty of Science

Jed Mamish (Dr. Justin Lee) $4000.00 - Biology, Faculty of Science

Zoki Gu (Dr. Opeyemi Adesina) $3725.00 - Computing, Faculty of Science

Ania Bula (Dr. Lucy Lee) $4000.00 - Biology, Faculty of Science

Robert Bocsanu (Dr. Opeyemi Adesina) $4000.00 - Computing, Faculty of Science

Nicola Ferguson (Dr. Olav Lian) $4000.00 - Geoscience, Faculty of Science

Ronald Balagtas (Dr. Golfam Ghafouifar) $4000.00 - Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Anoop Sidhu (Dr. Golfam Ghafouifar) $4000.00 - Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Joel Algera (Dr. Omer Waqar) $4000.00 - Computing, Faculty of Science

Suveer Bhatia (Dr. Amir Shabani) $4000.00 - Computing, Faculty of Science

Ishwak Sharda (Dr. Amir Shabani) $4000.00 - Computing, Faculty of Science

2023 Awardees

Austin Atkins (Dr. Justin Lee) $4000.00

Trisha Kumar (Dr. Kirsten Robertson) $2000.00

Nandish Khandelwal (Dr. Javad Hadian) $2000.00

Dilan Praat (Dr. Greg Schmaltz) $4000.00

Nicola Ferguson (Dr. Olav Lian) $4000.00

Agnes Kim (Dr. Bosu Seo) $4000.00

Jarrod Jones (Dr. Lin Long) $4000.00

Halen Davies (Dr. Lin Long) $4000.00

Shubham Rishi (Dr. Amir Shabani) $3500.00

Saransh Ahuja (Dr. Amir Shabani) $2000.00

2022 Awardees

Katriana VanWoudenberg (Dr. Justin Lee) $4000.00

Vanessa Brewer (Dr. Olav Lian) $4000.00

Heather Kelly (Dr. Justin Lee) $4000.00

Halen Davies, Gary Galicia, Josh Gourde, Paulina Mansilla, Zhengwei Miao (Dr. Lin Long) $6300.00

Rozziene Eguia, Nick Pickering, Duy Le (Dr. Lin Long) $3019.23

Qamar Tahari (Dr. Cory Beshara) $4000.00

Trisha Kumar (Dr. Saeed Rahman) $1130.00