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Deadline: 09-Mar-22
The Employment and Social Development Canada has launched a call for proposals for the Skills for Success Program – Research and Innovation Stream to identify better ways of helping persons prepare for, return to or keep employment and be productive participants in the labour force.
The objective of this Call for Proposals under the Skills for Success (SFS) program is to fund organizations that will help Canadians at all skill levels improve their foundational and transferable skills to better prepare for, get and keep a job, and adapt and succeed at work.
Funding Information
- Eligible organizations under the Research and Innovation Stream can apply for funding of up to $7.5 million per project.
- All projects under the Research and Innovation Stream must end by March 31, 2024.
Eligible Projects
Your project must meet all of the following criteria:
- duration of the project must not exceed March 31, 2024
- scope of the project must be either national in scope or regional in scope:
- National in scope, meaning the research will address a labour market issue that is present in multiple jurisdictions (province/territory), including online
- Regional in scope, meaning that the research will address a labour market issue that is present in one jurisdiction (province/territory) and has the potential to address the same or similar skills and labour market issues in other parts of the country
- request no more than $7.5 million per project
- focus on supporting research and innovative projects to identify better ways of helping persons prepare for:
- return to or keep employment, and
- be productive participants in the labour force
- enable the broad adoption and uptake of the Skills for Success
- Model by including a dissemination strategy to share project results with organizations and employers
Eligibility Criteria
Your organization must be 1 of the following:
- Not-for-profit organization
- For-profit organization (provided that the nature and intent of the activity is non-commercial, not intended to generate profit, and supports program priorities and objectives)
- Labour union
- Research organization, Think tank, Academic Institution
- Indigenous organization including:
- band council
- tribal council
- self-government entity
- Provincial and territorial government, institution, agency and Crown Corporation
For more information, visit https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/funding/skills-success-research-innovation-stream.html