Science Horizons Youth Internship Program 2025 [Canada Only] – YOA

Deadline: Unspecified

Applications for the Science Horizons Youth Internship Program 2025 are actually open. The Science Horizons Youth Internship Program is an employer assist program that helps submit-secondary graduates purchase arms-on work expertise and mentorship in an atmosphere-associated STEM subject.

The Science Horizons Youth Internship Program provides employers the liberty to:

• Gain entry to funds to rent scientific and technical employees with much less monetary threat;
• Grow their enterprise;
• Hire expertise desperate to make the most of their expertise;
• Develop new expertise inside their firm.

Benefits

• The Science Horizons Youth Internship Program covers the price of a participant’s wage by 80% as much as a most of $25,000. The program helps bio-financial system employers rent the expertise they want and assist graduates achieve expertise to safe full-time employment in environmental fields.
• In addition to the paid internship contribution, employers could also be eligible as much as a most of $5,000 for coaching, expertise growth, and/or wrap-round providers.

Eligibility

Participants should:

• be new (not but employed) to the group making use of for funding;
• be aged 30 or beneath originally of the internship;
• be a graduate from a submit-secondary establishment (doesn’t should be a STEM grad) – Canadian or International;
• a Canadian residents, everlasting residents, or individuals who’ve been granted refugee standing in Canada;
• be legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with the related provincial and Canadian laws and rules; and
• not be in receipt of Employment Insurance (EI) advantages;
• agree with in particular person and digital midpoints;
• haven’t participated in any of the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Programs focused at submit-secondary graduates.

The internship should:

• be carried out with a bio-financial system group;
• be in an atmosphere-associated STEM subject;
• be a minimal of 30 hours per week with a required period between 4-12 months;
• set up and preserve a course of for supervising and mentoring an intern;
• have the employer contribute at minimal 20% of the full price of the paid internship (not together with wrap-round providers)
• present a piece atmosphere that’s secure, respectful, inclusive, freed from harassment, abuse, and discrimination and is in compliance with all relevant legal guidelines;
• not be funded by one other federally-funded program like IRAP, Mitacs, and so on.;
• see the participant added to the employer’s payroll which incorporates Federal/Provincial tax deductions (CPP, EI, and so on.); and
• meet one of many following further necessities:
  • The work expertise presents expertise growth and coaching alternatives
  • The work expertise is said to the pursuits and pursuits of youth
  • The work expertise presents a wage that’s above the minimal wage
  • The work expertise presents alternatives for development

Eligible employers beneath the Science Horizons program embrace:

• Individuals;
• For-profit organizations (small- or medium-sized enterprises, companies, or trade associations);
• Provincial and territorial, municipal and native governments together with establishments, businesses and Crown Corporations;
• Post-secondary establishments; and,
• Organization, together with however not restricted to non-authorities organizations, together with non-revenue organizations, Indigenous organizations, together with band councils/tribal councils and native organizations.

Application

Follow the steps outlined within the Application Instructions doc and submit all absolutely accomplished varieties and essential supporting documentation as required.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Science Horizons Youth Internship.