Sectors
Labour market trends such as technology, shifting demographics and climate change are leading to rapid change in key sectors of our economy. Workers and employers will require support from the skills ecosystem to successfully manage these transitions.
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Skills Matching and Opportunities in Wood Manufacturing
The Wood Manufacturing Council (WMC), with support from the Conference Board of Canada (CBoC), launched the Skills Matching and Opportunities in Wood Manufacturing project to address the gap between job seekers’ desires for viable and desirable career transitions and the recruitment challenges faced by the wood manufacturing sector.
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Building Capacity for Advancing Climate Change Leadership
This project explored the viability of developing a national framework for the leadership competencies required to address climate change. The project also focused on how such a framework could guide the development of climate-related micro-credentials across the skills and training ecosystem.
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On the Frontlines of Crisis Training Program
Weston Frontlines Centre created the Frontlines of Crisis Training Program, a 15-week hybrid training program to prepare young people with skills relevant for food production and distribution in the non-profit sector.
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ABC Skills Hub
Nearly half of Canadian adults have inadequate literacy skills, meaning they have poor reading, writing and numeracy skills that limit their ability to participate in the economy and daily life. ABC Life Literacy, an expert in adult learning, has been successfully offering adult literacy courses in person, and sought to migrate this content online to be more widely accessible to individual learners and other literacy organizations across the country.
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Skills, Explore, Achieve, Revive (SOAR)
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Accelerating the Smooth Adoption of Smart Systems
Through modifications to existing engineering programs, McMaster University sought to expand the work-integrated learning opportunities offered to students in two of its engineering programs. The goal was to provide students technical skills via projects provided by industry partners in hopes of accelerating their adoption of digital technologies.
Research
Navigating net-zero: Faculty perspectives on greening post-secondary curricula
This project sought to understand how post-secondary institutions are integrating green skills, climate literacy, and green career pathways into their programming, the barriers they faced, and opportunities for them to be more responsive to emerging green economy needs.
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Accelerating the Appropriate Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Despite its ability to positively transform healthcare, there is some reluctance among healthcare providers to adopt artificial intelligence within their practice. This project set out to tackle these challenges and capitalize on the potential of AI in healthcare.
Research
Planning for sustainable jobs 101
This project examined what kinds of future skills and jobs will be needed, how the nature of the work is changing, what kinds of support and policies can aid businesses and workers alike, and how policymakers, educational institutions, and industry can both enable and smooth this transition. It studied three specific opportunities: zero-emission vehicles in Ontario, plant-based protein in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and mass timber in British Columbia.