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June 2020 Projects

We’re making a $37 million investment into innovative and community-based programs to find solutions to Canada’s changing workforce

With a strong focus on how we can provide meaningful action for our community’s disadvantaged and underrepresented groups, the Future Skills Centre is investing in 30 new projects to fill employers’ skills gaps and help workers gain in-demand skills in this post-pandemic period.

This $37-million investment into community-based programs focuses on the needs of diverse Canadian workers and employers by exploring innovative approaches to training and upskilling for emerging and in-demand skills.

These 30 projects span all regions of the country and are the result of consultations with stakeholders across Canada’s skills ecosystem. They were selected after an extensive review of hundreds of submissions to a call for proposals we established last year.

With a strong focus on how we can provide meaningful action for Canada’s disadvantaged and underrepresented groups, the projects cover four major themes. 

They range from leveraging people and AI technology, to training, reskilling, and adapting within industries facing chronic skills shortages, to radical new approaches to training and learning in order to build capacity to creating an inclusive workforce for the future by not leaving anyone behind. By applying a rigorous evaluation strategy to all our projects, the Future Skills Centre is keen to work with these partners to help every Canadian succeed in a changing workplace.

Project Listing

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Project

InTeRN: a young, northern workforce enters the world of ICT

  • May 2022
  • University College of the North
A two-year network computer technology program geared to providing entry level skills and supports to Indigenous youth in Northern Manitoba.
1 Related Reports
Project

Skills Development in SMEs for Faster Adaptation to Job Market Changes

  • June 2020
  • Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec (FCCQ)
To speed up the pace of organizational buy-in to a culture of continuing education and the pace of workforce skills development in eight Quebec regions.
1 Related Reports
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Project

Career Advancement for Immigrant Professionals 2.0

  • May 2022
  • Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC)
Help underemployed immigrant professionals overcome barriers to career advancement and help employers retain and leverage newcomer talent.
1 Related Reports
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Project

Scaling up the Canadian Remote Access for Dementia Learning Experiences (CRADLE+)

  • June 2020
  • Conestoga College
The first, fully-online, multilingual education opportunity specifically designed for historically isolated, unregulated care workers.
1 Related Reports
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Project

Material Handling 4.0: Building pathways to employment for disadvantaged groups

  • June 2020
  • Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology
Help new and current material handlers in Hamilton to transition to new job opportunities within the supply chain sector.
1 Related Reports
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Project

Virtual recruitment & assessment for the unionized construction industry

  • June 2020
  • SkillPlan: BC Construction Industry Skills Improvement Council
Project to create a virtual recruitment and assessment centre in four regions across Canada to recruit underrepresented populations into the unionized construction industry.
1 Related Reports
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Project

Upskill and certify Indigenous child and youth practitioners

  • June 2020
  • Right to Play
Create innovative educational opportunities that reduce barriers to Indigenous peoples’ participation and increase the number of Indigenous youth workers with postsecondary certificates who have marketable skills.
1 Related Reports
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Project

Best Practice Models for Industry Engagement

  • June 2020
  • Canadian Apprenticeship Forum
First Canadian test of online VALID-8 tool allowing trades apprentices to be objectively assessed by a certified journeyperson and also demonstrate what they are capable of to prospective employers.
1 Related Reports
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Project

AspireAtlantic

  • June 2020
  • Pier Labs
Creating a program to bridge the gap between employer demand and workforce attachment in Nova Scotia and PEI.
1 Related Reports
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Project

The Indigenous Employment Hub

  • June 2020
  • Coast Salish Development Corporation
The Indigenous Employment Hub can help meet labour needs for future (infrastructure) projects in B.C. and become a model for creating meaningful employment opportunities for Indigenous people.
1 Related Reports
Computer screen showing equipment eLearning module
Project

Tech-enabled learning programs for the mining industry

  • May 2022
  • NORCAT
Project will be three two-week unique, demand-driven, and blended-learning training programs using VR, eLearning, simulations and in-field competency assessment. Final equipment selection will be aligned to meet the demand-driven needs of the industry partners.
1 Related Reports
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Project

Facing the challenge of digital transformation in the insurance sector: women at work

  • June 2020
  • Laval University
Action research project on the future of female workers facing the automation of tasks in their job duties in the insurance sector.
1 Related Reports
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Project

Project Connect: Technology-enabled learning for Métis communities

  • June 2020
  • Royal Roads University
Project Connect will design and test an online delivery model for a professional project administrator program created for and with B.C.’s Métis community.
1 Related Reports
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