Science Horizons Youth Internship
Helping Youth Grow Their Portfolios & Employers Find Talented Candidates
The Science Horizon Youth Internship Program provides training and funding for young professionals to help them transition into the workforce and gain experience in the environmental sector. The program helps them build a network of peers and mentors.
For employers, it gives them the opportunity to onboard young professionals and create meaningful environmental jobs in science, technology, engineering, mathematics by removing limitations and challenges of hiring new professionals.
Program Status: Applications Are Open
Funding Will Cover 4 to 12 Months of Full-Time Work
About The Science Horizons Youth Internship
The Science Horizons Program offers training and funding to young professionals with post-secondary education, assisting them in their transition into the workforce and helping them gain experience in the environmental sector. The program also enables participants to build a network of peers and mentors.
For employers, this initiative provides an opportunity to onboard young professionals and establish meaningful environmental jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It addresses the challenges of hiring young talent and removes common barriers.
How Does the Science Horizons Program Work?
1. Apply Online
Fill out our eligibility assessment and application.
2. Get Approved
Candidates and employers will be informed by email once they are pre-qualified to participate in the program.
3. Recruitment
Candidates and employers are required to find their own placement, ECO Canada can offer helpful resources such as the Job Board (where hosts can post a job and candidates can submit their resume).
4. Secure Funding
Funding is secured once a match is confirmed between the employer and a pre-approved candidate and contract agreements have been signed and returned to us within 15 days of being issued.
5. Receive Funding
This program offers eligible employers 80% wage coverage up to $25,000 of a participant’s salary for a placement in a new full-time position. Plus a potential of $5,000 for additional participant supports. Both the employer and candidate must fill out reports throughout the placement for the employer to receive the wage subsidy.
We'll Help Cover 80% of Wages up to $25k & Training.
Breakdown for Participants
- This program is open to participants who are aged 15-30.
- Funding is focused around the STEM field.
- Participants must be post-secondary graduates.
- This program is open to candidate’s who hold Canadian citizenship, Canadian permanent residency status, or Canadian refugee status.
- Priority will be given to Indigenous youth, racialized youth, youth with disabilities, members of official language minority groups, Northern/Rural/Remote youth, 2SLGBTQI+ youth, and women.
Breakdown for Host Employers
- Receive 80% up to $25,000 in funding towards a participant's salary.
- The host employer must provide a new, full-time permanent position and the job must be environmentally-related to STEM.
- This program is open to businesses of all sizes.
- Employers must be Canadian-owned or a Canadian subsidiary, municipal government, provincial or territorial governments department, or Indigenous organizations.
- Funding will cover full-time placements that are 4 to 12 months long.
About ECO Canada
As the steward for the Canadian Environmental workforce across all industries, ECO Canada offers employment programs that stimulate environmental career pathways, skill development, business growth, workforce support and workforce advancement through wage and training funding.
To date, we have distributed over $176M in wage and training subsidies and helped to fill 16,775 job placements!
