April 16, 2025
For Immediate Release
(Ottawa, ON) – Canada’s Ocean Supercluster (OSC) has launched its Ocean AI 2025 Call for Proposals. This new call program is focused on fostering the accelerated development of new and innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects within the ocean sector.
Through its Ocean AI 2025 Program, the OSC will collaboratively invest with industry partners in successful project proposals. This Call for Proposals is designed to support innovative AI projects that drive growth, efficiency, and market expansion within the ocean sector, leveraging the recommendations set out in Charting the Course to 5X growth in Canada’s Ocean Economy. By providing targeted investment, this initiative enables organizations to harness AI’s potential to address complex challenges, enhance operational capabilities, and create new intellectual property that will contribute to the sector’s long-term competitiveness, ultimately strengthening its global leadership.
As technological progress is reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace, AI stands out as a critical tool to drive operational efficiency, foster innovation, and enable companies to differentiate themselves in the global marketplace. This program will allow companies to not only enhance their immediate capabilities, but also their strategic planning and operations, positioning themselves at the forefront of this technological evolution.
This Call for Proposals is a deadline-driven and competitive framework, providing companies seeking to co-invest with the OSC an avenue to enhance their AI knowledge and capabilities.
The deadline for submitting an Expression of Interest (EOI) to the Ocean AI 2025 Call for Proposals is May 16th, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. ADT/ 1:00 p.m. EDT/ 10:00 a.m. PDT. Full program guidelines can be found here. Complete EOI submissions must be submitted via email to ai@oceansupercluster.ca. To learn more about the Ocean AI 2025 Call for Proposals, join our webinar on April 25, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. ADT/12:00 p.m. EDT/9:00 a.m. PDT.
Through Ambition 2035 and together with Canada’s ocean community, we are bold in our ambition to grow Canada’s ocean economy 5X to $220 billion by 2035. Continued investment in the accelerated development and commercialization of globally relevant, made in Canada ocean solutions will help us realize this ambition. Read more about the recommendations to help achieve this transformational growth opportunity outlined in Charting the Course to 5X Growth in Canada’s Ocean Economy.
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About Canada’s Ocean Supercluster
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster accelerates the development and commercialization of made-in-Canada ocean solutions in energy transition, food security, future of transport, and climate change while also growing more companies, creating more jobs, and attracting ocean talent. As Canada’s national ocean cluster, the OSC is a convenor of members, partners, and networks and a catalyst for transformative growth that helps build the robust ecosystem needed to help realize Ambition 2035 – a 5X growth potential in ocean in Canada by 2035. To date, the OSC has approved more than 120 projects valued at more than $500 million, which will deliver more than 300 new made-in-Canada ocean products, processes, and services to sell to the world.
Media Contact:
Nancy Andrews
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster
nancy.andrews@oceansupercluster.ca