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Career Advancement for Immigrant Professionals 2.0

Help underemployed immigrant professionals overcome barriers to career advancement and help employers retain and leverage newcomer talent.
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Minimizing gaps in Indigenous early learning

This project aims to find solutions to the shortage of trained Indigenous early learning and child care workers for Micmac communities.
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Core skills and rapid response

Indigenous youth benefit from this pilot, which develops a rapid customization process and core skills training that also addresses critical labour shortages.
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Alberta digital employment training

Newcomers gain employment training through online learning to meet labour market needs.
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TIMES 2.0

This research will provide data that enables the Yonge Street Mission to better understand and support the journey to gainful employment for those living in poverty.
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Skills for a clean economy

National research will identify regions and workforce segments disproportionately affected by the pandemic and scope project demand for roles and retraining required to advance the clean economy.
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Bridging the Gap: A Learning Platform and Marketplace for Job-seekers and Employers

A scalable system that assesses competencies (using AI based work-related tasks) and issues micro-credentials to job-seekers.
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AspireAtlantic

Creating a program to bridge the gap between employer demand and workforce attachment in Nova Scotia and PEI.
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Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences (CASTL)

Hub for multiple, industry-focused, and applied learning streams to acquire the academic knowledge, technical skills, and professional competencies for a career in biosciences.