OCAD U CO Corp.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Toronto|Toronto, ON · grants and contributions register · Thunder Bay—Superior North

OCAD U CO Corp.: federal grants and contributions: 14 agreements; $2.8M value; 1 departments; 2 programs.

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14agreements
$2.8Mvalue
1departments
2programs

Largest agreements

Design Critiques by OCADU CO$532Kvalue2022start2024end

NATIONAL CTO: OCAD U CO, (the Design Studio of OCADU) will use OCADU faculty provide critiques using design thinking principles based on product and/or business challenges presented by clients.

Design Thinking Critique$503Kvalue2020start2022end

OCAD U faculty provide critiques using design thinking principles based on product and/or business challenges presented by clients.

New - Design Critiques - additional client support$484Kvalue2023start2025end

NATIONAL CTO: OCAD U CO, (the Design Studio of OCADU) will use OCADU faculty provide critiques using design thinking principles based on product and/or business challenges presented by clients.

F23 Customer Insights Workshop$213Kvalue2023start2025end

OCAD U CO offers IRAP clients a nine-week participatory research workshop to learn how to foster empathy with customers, uncover customer needs, and develop impactful value propositions that align with customer motivations and behaviours. These services support IRAP’s mission to provide innovative assistance services to SMEs in Canada.

Design Critique$203Kvalue2026start2027end

NATIONAL CTO: OCAD U CO, (the Design Studio of OCADU) will provide design critiques of product and services across industries using design thinking principles based on product and/or business challenges presented by clients.

F25-26 OCADU CO Design Critiques (Toronto Budget)$164Kvalue2025start2026end

NATIONAL CTO: OCAD U CO, (the Design Studio of OCADU) will provide design critiques of product and services across industries using design thinking principles based on product and/or business challenges presented by clients.

Design Thinking-based design critique and user interface evaluation$145Kvalue2019start2020end

OCADU CO with the support of researchers from OCADU offers IRAP Design Thinking-based design critique and user interface evaluation services in support of IRAP’s mission. Design Thinking is a multi-disciplinary problem-solving approach that cultivates creative ideation, iterative prototyping, and concurrent business analysis using structured methods that promote deep understanding of real needs and the attainment of significant business outcomes. Design Thinking has been identified as a key approach for developing innovative solutions that are desirable, effective and viable. Participants en

F25-26 OCADU CO Design Critiques (ICT Sector Team Budget)$135Kvalue2025start2026end

NATIONAL CTO: OCAD U CO, (the Design Studio of OCADU) will provide design critiques of product and services across industries using design thinking principles based on product and/or business challenges presented by clients.

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National Customer Insights Workshops - Interactive Principles and Practices$98.8Kvalue2022start2023end

OCAD U CO offers IRAP clients a nine-week participatory research workshop to learn how to foster empathy with customers, uncover customer needs, and develop impactful value propositions that align with customer motivations and behaviours. These services support IRAP’s mission to provide innovative assistance services to SMEs in Canada.

F24 Inclusive Design Pilot$69.7Kvalue2024start2025end

The Inclusive Design program will equip IRAP clients with the methods, tools and best practices for applying inclusive design to their digital or physical products and services. Specifically, the Inclusive Design program will do this by helping clients learn about the importance of designing for the diverse needs of their customer or user base, understanding how to build inclusive, diverse, and equitable design teams, as well as providing them with the insights and recommendations for how to go about making needed changes.

National Inclusive Design Workshops$68.2Kvalue2022start2023end

The Inclusive Design program will equip IRAP clients with the methods, tools and best practices for applying inclusive design to their digital or physical products and services. Specifically, the Inclusive Design program will do this by helping clients learn about the importance of designing for the diverse needs of their customer or user base, understanding how to build inclusive, diverse, and equitable design teams, as well as providing them with the insights and recommendations for how to go about making needed changes.

F2025 Customer Insight CTO$63.4Kvalue2025start2026end

OCAD U CO offers IRAP clients a ten-week participatory research workshop to learn how to foster empathy with customers, uncover customer needs, and develop impactful value propositions that align with customer motivations and behaviours. Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) will learn how to use emerging tools and to anticipate how AI-driven capabilities will reshape customer expectations and behaviours. These services support IRAP’s mission to provide innovative assistance services to SMEs in Canada.

Customer Insights Interactive Workshop$53.5Kvalue2021start2022end

OCAD U CO offers IRAP clients an eight-week participatory research workshop to learn how to foster empathy with customers, uncover customer needs, and develop impactful value propositions that align with customer motivations and behaviours. These services support IRAP’s mission to increase innovative capacity within clients and to offer innovation services to SMEs in Canada.

Inclusive Design CTO$50.2Kvalue2021start2022end

The Inclusive Design program will equip IRAP clients with the methods, tools and best practices for applying inclusive design to their digital offerings including but not limited to: websites, digital applications, software solutions, web-based platforms and more. Specifically, the Inclusive Design program will do this by helping clients learn about the importance of designing for the diverse need

Departments

National Research Council Canada14agreements$2.8Mvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Organizations
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20261agreements$203Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
20253agreements$363Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Organizations
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
20241agreements$69.7Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Organizations
20232agreements$696Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Organizations
20223agreements$699Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Organizations
20212agreements$104Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Organizations
20201agreements$503Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Organizations
20191agreements$145Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Organizations

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.