CAD 455,727.00
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- Recipient
- Aera Agriculture Inc.
- Public body
- National Research Council Canada
- Agreement start
- July 7, 2025
- Program
- Industrial Research Assistance Program
- Record type
- Federal grant or contribution
Receipt
agreement 172-2025-2026-Q2-1032783, amendment 3
Source location evidence
Location review incomplete.
Reported address: country: CA; province: NL; city: St. John's|St. John's; postal code: A1B 1M9.
How counted: latest of 4 rows (department reports running totals). Start: 2025-07-07; end: 2027-05-14; reported: not stated. Amount: published value.
Full source fields
- _id
- 35942095
- ref_number
- 172-2025-2026-Q2-1032783
- amendment_number
- 3
- amendment_date
- 2026-08-20
- agreement_type
- C
- recipient_type
- F
- recipient_business_number
- 791141005
- recipient_legal_name
- Aera Agriculture Inc.
- recipient_operating_name
- Aera Farms
- research_organization_name
- recipient_country
- CA
- recipient_province
- NL
- recipient_city
- St. John's|St. John's
- recipient_postal_code
- A1B 1M9
- federal_riding_name_en
- St. John's East
- federal_riding_name_fr
- St. John's-Est
- federal_riding_number
- 10006
- prog_name_en
- Industrial Research Assistance Program
- prog_name_fr
- Programme d’aide à la recherche industrielle
- prog_purpose_en
- The purpose of Industrial Research Assistance Program Contributions to Firms is to provide support that assists small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to advance their innovation knowledge and ability to innovate, grow through innovation and stimulate wealth creation for Canada.
- prog_purpose_fr
- Les contributions versées aux entreprises en vertu du Programme d’aide à la recherche industrielle ont pour objectif d’apporter un soutien aux petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) afin qu’elles puissent approfondir leurs connaissances en matière d’innovation et renforcer leur capacité d’innovation, de croissance et de création de richesse pour le Canada.
- agreement_title_en
- Advancing Automated Aeroponic Farming: Customer Testing & Market Validation
- agreement_title_fr
- Faire progresser l’agriculture aéroponique automatisée : essais auprès des clients et validation du marché
- agreement_number
- 1032783
- agreement_value
- 455727.0
- foreign_currency_type
- foreign_currency_value
- agreement_start_date
- 2025-07-07
- agreement_end_date
- 2027-05-14
- coverage
- Industrial Research Assistance Program projects stimulate wealth creation for Canada through technological innovation and strengthen Canadian innovation ecosystem by creating new industrial capacity. | Les projets du Programme d'aide à la recherche industrielle favorisent la création de richesse au Canada grâce à l'innovation technologique et renforcent l'écosystème canadien de l'innovation en créant de nouvelles capacités industrielles.
- description_en
- Aera is advancing its Victory smart farming appliance from TRL6 to TRL7 through real-world pilot deployments in commercial kitchens. The project includes crop testing, user feedback collection, hardware and software refinements, and development of manufacturing, IP, and go-to-market strategies. Victory is a fully automated aeroponic appliance that enables affordable, sustainable food production on-site. This work supports commercialization readiness, builds clean-tech IP, and positions Aera to scale manufacturing and deliver cost-saving, resilient food production to restaurants and institutions across Canada.
- description_fr
- Aera fait passer son appareil agricole intelligent Victory du NMT6 au NMT7 grâce à des déploiements pilotes en conditions réelles dans des cuisines commerciales. Le projet comprend des essais sur les cultures, la collecte des commentaires des utilisateurs, l’amélioration du matériel et des logiciels, ainsi que l’élaboration de stratégies de fabrication, de propriété intellectuelle et de mise sur le marché. Victory est un appareil aéroponique entièrement automatisé qui permet une production alimentaire abordable et durable sur place. Ce travail soutient la préparation à la commercialisation, renforce la propriété intellectuelle en matière de technologies propres et positionne Aera pour augmenter sa production et offrir une production alimentaire résiliente et économique aux restaurants et aux institutions partout au Canada.
- naics_identifier
- 111419
- expected_results_en
- The expected results and outcomes of NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program is focused on growing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through innovation and wealth creation for Canada.
- expected_results_fr
- Les résultats attendus du Programme d’aide à la recherche industrielle du CNRC sont axés sur la croissance des petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) grâce à l’innovation et à la création de richesse pour le Canada.
- additional_information_en
- This agreement has been amended 1 time(s). The end date of this agreements has been modified by 257 days. The total amended value is 176,694 dollars.
- additional_information_fr
- Cet accord a été modifié 1 fois La date de fin du présent accord a été changé de 257 jours. La valeur totale des modifications est de 176 694 dollars.
- owner_org
- nrc-cnrc
- owner_org_title
- National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
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