Funding: The Flexibility and Innovation in Apprenticeship Technical Training (FIATT) Pilot - Overview
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Deadline: December 17, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. EST
The Government of Canada is currently accepting proposals from organizations interested in receiving financial assistance from the FIATT pilot.
1. Overview
The Government of Canada recognizes that the skilled trades are critical to Canada’s economic prosperity. It is continuing to work with provinces and territories to harmonize apprenticeship systems and reduce barriers to certification in the skilled trades, so that apprentices can more easily train and work where jobs are available.
In order to improve the apprenticeship systems, Economic Action Plan 2014 proposed to introduce the Flexibility and Innovation in Apprenticeship Technical Training (FIATT) pilot project, to expand innovative approaches to the delivery of apprentice technical training aimed at reducing barriers to completing training, and obtaining certification. The projects will test alternatives to the block-training approach that exists across most of the country, in order to allow apprentices to spend more time working and earning while fulfilling the technical training requirements of their programs.