Employer supports

Work Integrated Learning (WIL) initiatives provide financial support to bio-economy employers to reduce the risk of hiring talent.

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Active Programs

Career Starter Program

The Career Starter Program will facilitate the transition of barriered youth into the labour market and increase their knowledge of the sector’s needs through recent and practical work experience.

Digital Skills for Youth

Grow your team and advance digital innovations with up to $24,000 in wage subsidy and training funds. Program description BioTalent Canada’s Digital Skills for Youth (DS4Y) program boosts an organization’s capacity to advance digital innovations and accelerate Canada’s position as a world leader in the ever-evolving knowledge economy by helping underemployed post-secondary graduates enhance and…

Student Work Placement Program

Offers up to $7,000 in wage subsidies to bio-economy and healthcare employers to hire students registered in STEM, healthcare, business programs and all other programs at Canadian post-secondary institutions.

Completed Programs

BioReady™ Paid Internship Program

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.

Career Focus Green Jobs

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”.

Opportunities Fund Wage Subsidy Program

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 Horizons

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.

Skilled Newcomer Internships for the Bio-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…