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
Upskilling Canadian youth for in-demand tech careers
Reboot Plus Expanded
Skills Development in SMEs for Faster Adaptation to Job Market Changes
AspireAtlantic
Project Connect: Technology-enabled learning for Métis communities
ArtWorksTO
Futureproofing the Food and Beverage Processing Workforce
From data to decision: AI training and professional certification
Accelerating the adoption of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare
Digital Fluency Stackable Micro-credentials for the Workforce
Material Handling 4.0: Building pathways to employment for disadvantaged groups
Assessing and developing workplace employability skills with ESAT
Microlearning in the Mining Industry
In Motion & Momentum+ (IM&M+): Building resilience, hope and sustainable futures
What works for work? Employment integration in youth service hubs across Canada
The Indigenous Employment Hub
Facing the challenge of digital transformation in the insurance sector: women at work
Best Practice Models for Industry Engagement
Bridging the Gap: A Learning Platform and Marketplace for Job-seekers and Employers
Synergy: Workforce Development for Vulnerable Women to Succeed
Workplace Inclusion Charter Expansion
Tech-enabled learning programs for the mining industry
Virtual recruitment & assessment for the unionized construction industry
Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences (CASTL)
InTeRN: a young, northern workforce enters the world of ICT
Upskill and certify Indigenous child and youth practitioners
Career Advancement for Immigrant Professionals 2.0
Scaling up the Canadian Remote Access for Dementia Learning Experiences (CRADLE+)
