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Material Handling 4.0

Material Handling 4.0 (MH4.0) is a sector-based skills training program designed to prepare unemployed and underemployed individuals for roles in Canada’s goods movement industry. 
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Innovation for Better Integration

The Innovation for Better Integration Project, which was conducted in Kingston, Ontario, aimed to address the challenges faced by newcomers in accessing services. The goal of the project was to collaboratively develop a new service provision model that would address the unique challenges of implementing traditional service approaches.
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Building Capacity and Skills to Survive Shock for Current and Future Not-for-Profit Managers: A New Approach

This project aimed to develop and test a new skills training model that bridged the academic and not-for-profit sectors. The experiential learning course called “Innovation for Social Impact” was developed and launched to achieve this goal.
Event

Blue Door Construct - 5 Year Anniversary Event

Blue Door is hosting an invite-only celebration of its Construct program, recognizing the collaboration, innovation, and community partnerships that have driven its success, helping more than 600 individuals secure meaningful employment. 
Event

ePIC 2025: 23rd International Conference on Open Education, Open Recognition Technologies and Practices

 Under the high patronage of the Minister Delegate for Education and Vocational Training, and co-hosted by Reconnaître and #Leplusimportant, the National Committee of Digital Badge Stakeholders (CNABN) is gathering to review initiatives related to digital badges. The goal: to share successes, identify challenges, and propose concrete ways to scale up these tools in order to support a knowledge economy and a true culture of recognition.
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Big Thinking Summit: Future Ready Graduate Education in Canada

The Big Thinking Summit: Future Ready Graduate Education in Canada will alternate between plenaries and deliberative breakout sessions, designed to foster alignment on education, policy, and practice. 
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Youth Jobs and Employment Career Pathing

Many youth, especially those from equity-deserving groups, are not aware of what career options they have and do not know what skills they need to achieve them. To address these gaps, the Diversity Institute designed and tested the Future Skills & Careers platform with the Peel District School Board (PDSB).
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Digital Transformation Strategy

There is growing demand for workers with advanced digital skills. To address this demand, Georgian College aimed to modernize itself. Guided by a Digital Transformation Strategy, this project involved integrating campus-wide extended reality (XR) technologies to enhance teaching and learning, remote collaboration and tools for daily work.
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Services to Social Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic and its series of lockdowns disproportionately impacted the service industry and many young women who work in this sector. This project provided online workshops and coaching to help young women in the service industry develop transferable social-emotional skills in leadership and confidence, communications, business literacy, job interviewing and networking to support their capacity to undertake career changes.