Skills for Success Program – Research and Innovation Stream

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. Projects funded under this Call for Proposals will allow the SFS Program to: - respond to current skills and labour market issues; and - enable the broad adoption and uptake of the Skills for Success Model

Grant Deadline

2022-03-09

Funding Amount

$7,500,000

Type of Grant

Grant, Funding

Sectors

All Sectors

Demographics

Indigenous

Incorporation

For Profit, Non Profit

Perks

Region Restriction

This grant is restricted to whole of Canada

Keywords

Age Restriction

This grant is age restricted from 18 to 100

Eligibility and Requirements

Eligibility

Your organization must have been 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:

1. band council
2. tribal council
3. self-government entity

• Provincial and territorial government, institution, agency and Crown Corporation

Eligible projects

Your project must have met 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

Grant Application website

https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/funding/skills-success-research-innovation-stream.html

Contact

If you have questions, email us at: EDSC.CPR-SFS.ESDC@servicecanada.gc.ca.