Reinforce and drive technological leadership in aerospace

Roadmap 2035 and strategic studies to take part in aerospace technology leadership

R&D vectors offering countless opportunities for innovation

Faced with today’s and tomorrow’s challenges, we support you in putting forward your ideas for technological projects to accelerate developments aimed at meeting ambitious global carbon neutrality targets, the need for new air mobility products and services, and the rise of integrated digital aviation systems, while ensuring their acceptance by regulatory authorities and the public. CRIAQ positions your projects on the roadmap, giving them visibility both within the aerospace ecosystem and with other innovative sectors.

Read the Roadmap 2035, and learn about CRIAQ’s technological trajectories, project portfolios and transformation vectors.

Strategic work and studies to guide R&D: An approach focused on technological development and technical training

Whether the objective is to better understand the imperatives of technological transformation, or to analyze the environmental, economic, or societal context, the CRIAQ team, in collaboration with industrialists and public research members, reflects on and undertakes strategic analyses. These studies, marked by technological leadership and aerospace expertise, are designed to help you steer your collaborative R&D projects, while promoting cutting-edge research and skills development. This way, we work together to achieve significant technological aerospace breakthroughs.

Collaboration with aviation authorities to facilitate our members' R&D activities

We monitor the evolving requirements of regulatory authorities to ensure that your collaborative R&D projects meet current and future air mobility needs. CRIAQ is connected with national and international regulatory and supervisory authorities, to boost technological advances and take steps towards certification for safe and secure air mobility. We aim to support or facilitate our members’ R&D activities in civil aviation.

Call and initiatives

Innovative initiatives to stimulate diversity, creativity, technological development and the emergence of talent

The rapid and sustained changes associated with technological transitions create an ongoing need for cutting-edge talent and a new generation of students representing the next generation of scientific and technological visionaries (Masters, PhD, post-doctorate).

To nurture this pool of emerging talent, CRIAQ develops and promotes a variety of programs, project calls and challenges involving a wide range of disciplines, while stimulating innovation and cutting-edge aerospace research.

Open call

Call for proposals

Accelerating-Innovation: Coaching for SMEs and Start-Ups

Acceleration-Innovation helps aerospace SMEs and start-ups face market challenges and strengthen their position in the supply chain through innovation. A personalized executive coaching service, the program is tailored to the specific needs of each company, enabling them to develop a more robust R&D strategy, as well as a business strategy that will enable them to seize new opportunities.

On-going

Deadline: 31/12/2024

Closed call

Call for applications

Scholarship Program for the Next Generation of Women in Aerospace – 2024 edition

The CRIAQ aims to stimulate diversity, creativity, talent development, and the emergence of innovative individuals and technological entrepreneurs. For its 4th edition, the annual scholarship program, with a total fund of $75,000, is dedicated to encouraging women students to pursue university studies in aerospace. This program will grant six scholarships.

This call is closed.

Stay tuned for upcoming calls and initiatives from CRIAQ.

Closed call

Call for applications

Envol Start-Up Grants – 2024 Edition

The “CRIAQ Envol Start-Up” grants are aimed at Quebec start-ups active in the aerospace sector. CRIAQ awards, on a competitive basis, two $10,000 grants to support the technological development of two start-ups, where financing helps tie product or service development more closely to potential users and customers. Law firm Osler has joined the initiative by…

This call is closed.

Stay tuned for upcoming calls and initiatives from CRIAQ.

Closed call

Call for ideas

Aero-Impact-Society – Innovation Multidisciplinary Call

This call for proposals, an innovative CRIAQ initiative, aims to support multidisciplinary teams of researchers wishing to advance knowledge in relation to a societal issue linked to the growth of aerospace innovations.

This call is closed.

Stay tuned for upcoming calls and initiatives from CRIAQ.

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Reinforce and drive technological leadership in aerospace

Would you like to position yourself as a leader and contribute to technological development, while enriching your expertise in aerospace?

Roadmap 2035 and strategic studies to take part in aerospace technology leadership

R&D vectors offering countless opportunities for innovation

Strategic work and studies to guide R&D: An approach focused on technological development and technical training