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
First Canadian test of online VALID-8 tool allowing trades apprentices to be objectively assessed by…
The first systematic testing of a framework to help the food and beverage processing industry…
Development of the Employability Skills Assessment Tool (ESAT), a cloud-based tool to measure an individual’s…
The project implements and tests the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) intervention among youth who…
Hub for multiple, industry-focused, and applied learning streams to acquire the academic knowledge, technical skills,…
Synergy is an extension of a three-year research, pilot, and knowledge transfer project aimed at…
A scalable system that assesses competencies (using AI based work-related tasks) and issues micro-credentials to…
Development and delivery of a series of three stackable micro-credentials for workers who are disadvantaged…
Remote mine employees will learn on-the-job via mobile micro-learning, for a few minutes each day,…
Shifting the mindset and educating healthcare professionals in the effective, appropriate, safe, and compassionate use…
Action research project on the future of female workers facing the automation of tasks in…
Help underemployed immigrant professionals overcome barriers to career advancement and help employers retain and leverage…
Help new and current material handlers in Hamilton to transition to new job opportunities within…
First-of-its-kind program in Canada will help youth who haven’t finished high school to re-engage in…
Launching low-income, young adults into IT careers by providing professional and technical skills training, job…
To assist unemployed/underemployed oil and gas workers to transition to more in-demand energy sector jobs.
The Indigenous Employment Hub can help meet labour needs for future (infrastructure) projects in B.C.…
The first, fully-online, multilingual education opportunity specifically designed for historically isolated, unregulated care workers.
Project Connect will design and test an online delivery model for a professional project administrator…
ArtWorksTO will connect motivated, job-ready youth with clients in need of creative talent.
Short-term AI-focused training intended primarily for mid-career professionals wanting to integrate new AI knowledge into…
Creating a program to bridge the gap between employer demand and workforce attachment in Nova…
Encourage Canadian manufacturers to invest in training programs that address specific skills gaps among their…
Project to create a virtual recruitment and assessment centre in four regions across Canada to…
Create innovative educational opportunities that reduce barriers to Indigenous peoples’ participation and increase the number…
Connect under-utilized talent pools with local employers in Kingston through the implementation of the Workplace…
A two-year network computer technology program geared to providing entry level skills and supports to…
Project will be three two-week unique, demand-driven, and blended-learning training programs using VR, eLearning, simulations…
This program assists people who are distant from the labour market in acquiring key life…
To speed up the pace of organizational buy-in to a culture of continuing education and…
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