Innovation Projects
State of Skills
Leveraging the Skills of Newcomers
Key Insights The quality and intensity of employer engagement is critical to the overall success of interventions to support newcomers. Employer engagement needs to go...
State of Skills
Digital Tools in the Skills Ecosystem
There is considerable promise in the role digital tools and virtual career services can play in improving access to training and career development, particularly for those with geographic barriers or constraints such as family care or other work responsibilities.
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Mapping racialized experiences in the real estate development industry
The real estate development industry is vital to Canada’s economy, but there is low representation of racialized professionals in the industry. This makes the sector less responsive to diverse community needs than it could be and limits its ability to address the worsening housing crisis.
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Laying Foundations: Technological maturity in Canada’s construction sector
In this research project, the Brookfield Institute conducted interviews and surveys with 14 industry leaders from 11 firms spanning three broad sub-sectors across the country. The objective was to improve understanding of what is contributing to the low uptick of technological innovation in the construction sector.
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Building capacity in Indigenous early childhood education
The project explores how Indigenous communities can be engaged in the care and education of their children and how they might advocate for better and more equitable services and programing.
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The impact of remote work on engineering
The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers sought to understand the impact on productivity and work culture of remote work in this industry, whether some equity seeking groups are disadvantaged, and to identify organizational strategies for adapting.
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Calgary Regional WIL Secretariate and Portal
Work-integrated learning (WIL) gives people the chance to apply the skills they have learned in the classroom while gaining on-the-job experience and pathways to meaningful...
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Tech-enabled learning programs for the mining industry
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.
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InTeRN: a young, northern workforce enters the world of ICT
A two-year network computer technology program geared to providing entry level skills and supports to Indigenous youth in Northern Manitoba.