Our employer support programs help drive results by bring in specialized skills and support needed to grow your business. Our various Work Integrated Learning (WIL) initiatives provide financial support to bio-economy employers to strengthen their workforce. Keep an eye on this page for the most up-to-date opportunities, or sign up for our mailing list.
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*The application review process for our programs can take up to 40 business days.
BioReady Ontario’s Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) Placements help employers hire and train new talent through paid 8-16 week placements while strengthening workforce capability and supporting long-term growth.
Offering up to $20,000, The Career Starter Program strengthens business operations with positions for barriered youth, increase their knowledge of the sector’s needs through recent and practical work experience.
Offering up to $5,000 in paid internships, SWPP helps support innovation, growth and business operations for bio-economy and healthcare employers with talented students in work-integrated learning placements while registered in STEM, healthcare, business programs and all other programs at Canadian post-secondary institutions.
Offers up to $11,500 in wage subsidies to bio-economy employers who hire, accommodate and train Internationally Educated Professionals to help them better integrate into the bio-economy.
Offers up to $13,500 in wage subsidies over six months to employers to hire a recent graduate from any discipline into a “green job”.
Grow your team and advance digital innovations with up to $24,000 in paid internship and training support. Please note that the Digital Skills for Youth program has reached capacity. Learn more about our employer supports. Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions. Explore this page Program description | Digital Skills for Youth program’s impact | Eligibility…
The Opportunities Fund wage subsidy program provides up to a maximum of $13,500 towards a salary as an incentive for bio-economy employers to hire, accommodate and train an employee with disabilities.
Science and Technology Internship Program – Green Jobs is a wage subsidy program for career placement opportunities in the natural resources sector linked to the green economy.
Offers up to $15,000 in wage subsidies over six months to bio-economy employers to hire a recent science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) graduate into a STEM position with an environmental focus.
The Science Horizons Youth Internship Program is a wage subsidy that helps recent graduates acquire work experience in fields linked to the green economy.
$20,000 wage subsidy to make the bio-economy more diverse and inclusive Applications for Skilled Newcomer Internships for the Bio-economy are no longer being accepted. Please visit biotalent.ca/programs for information about other open programs for which you may be eligible. And for any other inquiries please contact [email protected]. Canada’s bio-economy must become more diverse if the industry is…
Offering up to $5,000 in paid internships, SWPP helps support innovation, growth and business operations for bio-economy and healthcare employers with talented students in work-integrated learning placements while registered in STEM, healthcare, business programs and all other programs at Canadian post-secondary institutions.
