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Industry Canada Business Plan 2010-2011
Industry Canada's strategic objectives, workforce renewal and corporate priorities for 2010–2011.
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IEC Young Professionals 2010 Workshop Competition
The Canadian National Committee (CNC) of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is pleased to participate in the 2010 IEC Young Professionals Competition, and is calling on all interested parties (aged early 20's to mid 30's) to get ahead!
The competition is designed to recognize and encourage young professionals who work for industry, government, academia, consumer organizations, or any entity within the Canadian standards and conformity assessment community that uses, benefits from, or contributes to the IEC's work in electrotechnical standardization and conformity assessment.
Two young professionals will be chosen to represent Canada at the IEC 2010 General Meeting, which will be held on October 6-15 in Seattle, Washington.
Youth Initiatives
This section provides resources for youth who are interested in finding information about programs that can help them with their education or to find a job.
Learning
- Computers for Schools
- Program that refurbishes computers and related equipment donated by governments and businesses and distributes them across Canada to schools, libraries and registered not-for-profit learning organizations.
- Prime Minister's Awards for Excellence in Early Childhood Education
- Award that recognizes Canada's best early childhood educators and promotes their innovative and successful early learning practices.
- Prime Minister's Awards for Teaching Excellence
- Award that recognizes Canada's best elementary and secondary school teachers in all disciplines and promotes their innovative and successful teaching practices.
- VirtualClassroom
- Program that conducts research and development of advanced pedagogy, infrastructure and broadband tools for intelligent learning.
Other Resources
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
- Foundation that provides scholarships to promising Canadian and international students who want to pursue doctoral studies in the humanities and social sciences in Canada. It also provides fellowships to mid-career researchers and mentorships to seasoned professionals who work in the field of public policy.
- Statistics Canada — Learning Resources
- Data and programs to support research, teaching and learning for students and teachers.
Employment and Entrepreneurship
- Computers for Schools — Technical Work Experience Program (TWEP)
- The Technical Work Experience Program (TWEP) hires students and recent graduates from college/university information technology programs. The Program provides young people with a minimum of 13 weeks — with the possibility of an additional 13 weeks extension — paid, practical, first job experience in Computers for Schools (CFS) repair centres throughout Canada.
- Small Business Internship Program (SBIP)
- Provides small and medium-sized businesses with financial support to hire a post-secondary student intern to assist them in their adoption of information and communications technologies to increase their productivity and competitiveness.
- Youth Internship Program — FedNor
- Program that provides recent post-secondary graduates with meaningful work experience in both private-sector and not-for-profit organizations that carry out community economic development activities and/or provide support services, information and skills training to entrepreneurs and small businesses across Northern Ontario.
Other Resources
- Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF)
- Community partners, mentoring and business resources for young Canadian entrepreneurs.
- Youth.gc.ca
- Website that helps youth between 15 and 30 years of age by providing resources on jobs, education, health and more.
