Stakeholder Engagement

The Future Skills Centre is building a pan-Canadian network of partners, and stakeholders to encourage collaboration, the exchange of ideas, and sharing of knowledge and best practices.

Canada’s skills ecosystem is diverse, dynamic, and oftentimes disconnected. The Future Skills Centre is committed to working directly with stakeholders to listen, identify, and better understand the skills challenges Canadians are facing and how best to respond to them. We will support and facilitate collaboration, knowledge sharing, and partnerships among stakeholders in the skills and training sector from coast to coast to coast. 

Building on our expansive network of more than 150 organizations, the Future Skills Centre and its consortium partners are actively reaching out to diverse stakeholders. We are developing a bilingual and accessible approach to introduce and promote our mission. 

The goals of this approach include:

  1. Informing Canadians about the Centre’s mandate, research plans, and investment strategy in the months and years ahead;
  2. Building awareness about how the Future Skills Centre intends to drive impact and systems change across Canada with communities facing barriers to skills training and employment pathways; and
  3. Developing and deepening our relationships with partners and stakeholders to design and build a virtual community of practice, to map the skills ecosystem across Canada, and enhance our presence and understanding of this burgeoning network by attending and participating in community events and initiatives.

Stakeholder Engagement Activities

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Raising Awareness

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Building Relationships

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Driving a national conversation

Stakeholder Engagement Activities

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In the Media

Winnipeg Hosts its First ECONx Summit at the RBC Convention Centreexternal link icon

Content from: Radio Canada April 29, 2025 On Tuesday, Winnipeg is hosting its first ECONx, an economic summit focused on its future, at the RBC Convention Centre. Noel Baldwin, executive director of the Future Skills Centre, explains that the goal is to discuss and design Winnipeg’s future.
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Overskilled and Underused? What PIAAC Reveals About the Canadian Workforceexternal link icon

Content from: HigherEd Strategy, Alex Usher | April 24, 2025 Today my guest is the CEO of Canada’s Future Skills Centre, Noel Baldwin. Over the past decade, both in his roles at FSC, his previous ones at the Council Minister of Education Canada, he’s arguably been one of the country’s most dedicated users of PIAAC data. As part of Canada’s delegation to the OECD committee in charge of PIAAC, he also had a front row seat to the development of these tests and the machinery behind these big international surveys.
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Content from: Betakit, Jacqueline Loganathan | March 13, 2025 Artificial intelligence has quietly moved from behind the scenes to the front lines of hiring. Companies are now relying on AI to sift through résumés, rank candidates, and forecast job performance, sometimes before humans even get involved. Speed and automation now help dictate who gets a foot in the door.