Future Skills Centre: Skills Horizon Call for Proposals 2024 (up to $250,000)

Deadline: December 13, 2024

Proposals are invited for the Future Skills Centre: Skills Horizon 2024. Future Skills Centre is launching two new open calls for proposals! Their mission is to help abilities improvement and handle important information gaps that form abilities insurance policies, packages, and companies. As a pan-Canadian hub for analysis and collaboration, they’re dedicated to driving innovation in abilities and workforce improvement, making certain everybody can thrive in the way forward for work. The Skills Horizon Calls for Proposals will supply funding to organizations nationwide, empowering tasks that deal with Canada’s most urgent abilities and labour market challenges.

Proposal Details

Skills Solutions: They are wanting to handle essentially the most important challenges for the way forward for work in Canada by supporting companions with modern pilot undertaking concepts at totally different phases of improvement. Partners are invited to apply to one among two streams:

• Stream 1 – Designing Solutions: They are wanting for undertaking concepts and ideas which can be nonetheless beneath improvement however that may display clear ambition and a robust group behind them. Projects funded on this stream will give attention to answer design and getting ready for potential piloting and can work carefully with a chosen technical help accomplice to each develop their idea and doc studying.
• Stream 2 – Strengthening Outcomes: They will help initiatives which can be prepared for implementation, having already undergone thorough session and design. The initiative ought to display each promising outcomes to date and capability to carry the undertaking ahead in a brief timeframe to obtain tangible outcomes. Funded tasks will give attention to advancing abilities outcomes based mostly on proof of what has labored. These initiatives will likely be additional examined by means of implementation and with the required help of a chosen analysis and studying accomplice.

Skills Research: They are wanting to fund analysis tasks that handle key information gaps or discover rising points tied to the 5 focus areas:

• Pathways to Jobs Facilitating pathways for people coming into, transitioning, and advancing within the labour market.
• SME Adaptability Engaging Canadian employers, particularly SMEs, in significant abilities improvement and utilization.
• Tech and Automation Preparing employees and employers for a extra digital and related world of labor.
• Inclusive Economy Driving labour market inclusion for underrepresented teams, with an emphasis on Black Youth, Newcomers, and Indigenous & Northern Communities.
• Sustainable Jobs Advancing abilities improvement and transition planning for a decarbonized financial system.

Funding

• Funding ranges from $50,000 to $250,000 per undertaking.

Eligibility

• Open to establishments based mostly in Canada, together with not-for-profit organizations, publicly funded post-secondary establishments, business associations, skilled associations, Indigenous organizations which can be a authorized entity, municipalities or district social companies administration boards, for-profit organizations (supplied the undertaking is undertaken at value, with no mark-ups or revenue included).
• Organizations with daring concepts for addressing abilities gaps.
• Teams prepared to deal with workforce challenges in a quickly altering financial system.

Application

Proposals will likely be reviewed, and funding awarded by the top of February 2025. All tasks are anticipated to begin no later than April 2025 and should conclude by September 30, 2025.

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For extra info, go to Future Skills Centre: Skills Horizon.