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
To assist unemployed/underemployed oil and gas workers to transition to more in-demand energy sector jobs.
First Canadian test of online VALID-8 tool allowing trades apprentices to be objectively assessed by…
Development of the Employability Skills Assessment Tool (ESAT), a cloud-based tool to measure an individual’s…
Development and delivery of a series of three stackable micro-credentials for workers who are disadvantaged…
To speed up the pace of organizational buy-in to a culture of continuing education and…
Project to create a virtual recruitment and assessment centre in four regions across Canada to…
This program assists people who are distant from the labour market in acquiring key life…
Short-term AI-focused training intended primarily for mid-career professionals wanting to integrate new AI knowledge into…
Hub for multiple, industry-focused, and applied learning streams to acquire the academic knowledge, technical skills,…
First-of-its-kind program in Canada will help youth who haven’t finished high school to re-engage in…
A scalable system that assesses competencies (using AI based work-related tasks) and issues micro-credentials to…
The first, fully-online, multilingual education opportunity specifically designed for historically isolated, unregulated care workers.
ArtWorksTO will connect motivated, job-ready youth with clients in need of creative talent.
The project implements and tests the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) intervention among youth who…
The first systematic testing of a framework to help the food and beverage processing industry…
Shifting the mindset and educating healthcare professionals in the effective, appropriate, safe, and compassionate use…
Remote mine employees will learn on-the-job via mobile micro-learning, for a few minutes each day,…
Project Connect will design and test an online delivery model for a professional project administrator…
A two-year network computer technology program geared to providing entry level skills and supports to…
Create innovative educational opportunities that reduce barriers to Indigenous peoples’ participation and increase the number…
Synergy is an extension of a three-year research, pilot, and knowledge transfer project aimed at…
The Indigenous Employment Hub can help meet labour needs for future (infrastructure) projects in B.C.…
Launching low-income, young adults into IT careers by providing professional and technical skills training, job…
Action research project on the future of female workers facing the automation of tasks in…
Creating a program to bridge the gap between employer demand and workforce attachment in Nova…
Connect under-utilized talent pools with local employers in Kingston through the implementation of the Workplace…
Project will be three two-week unique, demand-driven, and blended-learning training programs using VR, eLearning, simulations…
Help new and current material handlers in Hamilton to transition to new job opportunities within…
Help underemployed immigrant professionals overcome barriers to career advancement and help employers retain and leverage…
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