MAPAQ — Biofood Innovation Program – Component 3

• Completed and signed financial assistance application form.
• Project budget forecasts using the financing and implementation schedule form.
• Partner commitment attestation, when required.
• Curriculum vitae of project team members, including external experts if applicable.

Who is eligible?

• For Volet 1, specific research and expertise centres listed in the program.
• For Volet 2, applicants with an establishment located in Quebec that are research establishments, technology transfer establishments, or associations and groups of companies or producers.
• For Volet 3, commercial fishing and aquaculture companies, aquatic product processors, and band councils.
• For Volet 4, research establishments.
• For Volet 5, research establishments, technology transfer establishments, diffusion centres, and associations and groups of companies or producers.

Who is not eligible

• Provincial or federal ministries, budgetary organizations, Crown corporations, and government-controlled companies.
• Municipal entities.
• Financial cooperatives and banking institutions.
• Companies or subcontractors listed in the RENA register.
• For-profit companies with more than 100 employees requesting $100,000 or more that do not meet employment equity requirements.

Eligible expenses

• Salaries and social charges for staff and students directly involved in the project.
• Consultant fees and specialized research contracts.
• External laboratory analyses.
• Travel, accommodation, equipment rental, materials, specialized training, communications, and dissemination costs.
• Equipment purchases and experimental infrastructure setup, up to $7,000 per unit.

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Costs not directly related to the project.
• Costs incurred before the minister accepts the financial assistance.
• Cost overruns requested as additional aid.
• Building construction, expansion, and land acquisition costs.
• Debt service, financing fees, legal fees, operating costs, and refundable GST/QST.

Eligible geographic areas

• Quebec

• For Volet 2, projects must respond to one or more challenges of the biofood sector and align with priorities defined in the calls for projects.
• For Volet 4, projects must seek to increase sector competitiveness or address a harmful agroenvironmental problem.
• For Volet 4 and Volet 5, projects must meet the priorities defined in the calls for projects.

• For Volet 1, documents required to submit a project are available by email request at centres@mapaq.gouv.qc.ca.
• For Volet 2, consult the applicant guide and send the mandatory documents by email to pib.depot@mapaq.gouv.qc.ca.
• For Volet 3, consult the applicant guide and send the required documents by email to pib.depot@mapaq.gouv.qc.ca.
• For Volet 5, consult the applicant guide and send the required documents by email to pib.depot@mapaq.gouv.qc.ca.

• For Volet 2, project evaluation requests a knowledge transfer plan for applied research, experimental development, or technological adaptation projects.
• For Volet 3 and Volet 5, applications must be sent by email with the required documents.
• The claimant file will be sent by the program team in the reminder email.
• A request for review of a decision can be filed within 20 working days after the decision is communicated.

• Applications and attachments must be submitted in French.
• All documents must be sent in a single email to pib.depot@mapaq.gouv.qc.ca.
• An automatic receipt confirmation is sent after submission.