Deadline: 5-May-23
The Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) is announcing its First Nations and Inuit Cultural Education Centres Program (FNICECP) that provides funding to First Nations and Inuit cultural education centres on reserves or Inuit settlement regions to support the development and promotion of First Nations and Inuit cultural heritage.
Objective
The objective of the FNICECP is to:
- Support First Nations and Inuit communities in expressing, preserving, developing, revitalizing and promoting their cultural heritage, through the establishment and operation of First Nations and Inuit cultural education centres.
- Ensure that culturally relevant programming and services are available to First Nations and Inuit students through cultural education centres.
- Contribute to an enhanced cultural environment and understanding within communities.
Expected results
The program expected results are to:
- A revival in traditional cultural skills among First Nations and Inuit people.
- An Increase in the development contemporary cultural skills among First Nations and Inuit people.
- An Increase in knowledge and use of their traditional languages among First Nations and Inuit people.
- Increased promotion of cross-cultural awareness in mainstream educational programs and institutions.
Eligible Activities
Key activities supported by the program include:
- Conducting or facilitating research into First Nations and Inuit heritage and culture.
- Developing or expanding on First Nations or Inuit linguistic learning resources.
- Developing or expanding on First Nations or Inuit learning resources other than linguistic learning resources.
- Developing or testing culturally oriented educational curricula, methods and materials for use by established and other programs in schools.
- Developing or collecting educational curricula for use by communities or the public.
- Developing new and more accurate information about First Nations or Inuit heritage, including historical material.
- Supporting a community cultural event or traditional ceremony.
- Supporting the operation of a community museum, library or gallery.
- Coordinating cultural education workshops.
- Supporting an activity which helps improve opportunities for the public to become knowledgeable about and sensitive to the historical and contemporary role of First Nations and Inuit people in Canada.
- Supporting an activity which helps to revive traditional skills.
- Supporting an activity which helps to develop contemporary cultural skills.
- Managing proposal-based programs for recipients who are funding delivery organizations for individual projects.
Eligible Initiatives and Projects
- Funding is provided to cultural education centres undertaking work that will lead to:
- Culturally relevant curricula for First Nations and Inuit schools.
- An enhanced cultural environment and understanding within communities.
- The funded activities:
- Focus on school-age children.
- Include resources for classroom instruction and after-school programs.
- Include operational funds for cultural education centres.
- May include classes for adults and events for community members, including cultural information sessions and tours targeted toward the general public.
Eligibility Criteria
- Recipients eligible to receive funding include:
- First Nations and Inuit cultural education centres
- Indigenous Services Canada directly funds First Nations and Inuit cultural education centres and the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.
- Indigenous Services also funds the First Nations Confederacy of Cultural Education Centres, which manages and administers FNICECP funds for a majority of First Nations cultural education centres.
For more information, visit ISC.