Challenge Case Studies
Find out how Foresight’s past Innovation Challenges have identified solutions, launched projects, created jobs, and reduced GHG emissions.
- Open Understanding Our Trees Challenge Understanding the moisture content of trees and logs allows pulp and paper manufacturers like CMPC to make better decisions about wood supply, from forests to mills. Improving moisture and density measurement capabilities will further refine CMPC’s harvesting and transport operations, which are key to a more efficient and sustainable pulp and paper manufacturing process. management. Presented By: Learn More
- In-Review Sustainable Agtech for Profitability: IFAO Challenge Revolutionize Ontario's field crop farming. Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario (IFAO) is seeking innovative agtech solutions that improve decision-making and analysis of field crop farmers' operations, enabling optimized soil health, biodiversity, profitability, and overall sustainability management. Presented By: Learn More
- In-Review Canadian Space Agency: Aqualunar Challenge Think your water purification solution is out-of-this-world? The Canadian Space Agency is seeking powerful water technologies that could be used to purify lunar water, enabling future space missions as part of their newly launched Aqualunar Challenge. Presented By: Learn More
- Completed Building British Columbia's Low-Carbon Economy Foresight's British Columbia Net Zero Innovation Network is seeking potential projects to support and build out in the transportation, water, mining and forest bioeconomy sectors. Learn More
- Completed FortisBC Compact Carbon Capture Challenge FortisBC is seeking solutions for capturing relatively small amounts of CO2 from a variety of geographic areas within Canada to use or sequester. Learn More
- Completed COSIA: Low Energy Water Treatment Technology Challenge Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) and the University of Alberta are seeking innovative solutions to improve the environmental performance of the mineable oil sands industry through low energy treatment of dissolved organic compounds present in Oil Sands Process Water (OSPW). Learn More
- Completed CMPC: Low Water, Blue Stain-Free Wood Challenge CMPC is seeking solutions to help fight the blue staining in wood caused by the Ceratocystis Pilífera fungus. Learn More
- Completed SDG Connect Challenge: Sasol DAC to the Future Sasol is seeking innovative, cost-effective DAC technologies that will enable the implementation of direct air capture (DAC) and integration into the feedstock value chain at their Secunda facilities. Presented By: Learn More
- Completed Soil Health & Nutrient Management Challenge The Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario (IFAO) is seeking innovative solutions that improve farmers’ ability to implement better nutrient management while improving soil health. Presented By: Learn More