What We Support
We help develop our region’s human capital by working with the region`s post-secondary institutions and their students, graduates, researchers, and with the region’s businesses to foster job creation, entrepreneurship, engage in collaborative research and encourage knowledge-sharing in our region.
Entrepreneurship, Work-Integrated Learning and Tech Transfer Initiatives
Supporting entrepreneurship programming, work-integrated learning and tech transfer activities at the region’s public post-secondary institutions. We work directly with the Post-Secondary Institutions to build these solutions, through an RFP that is issued annually. We collaborate with the following public post-secondary institutions on this :
- College of the Rockies
- Nicola Valley Institute of Technology
- Okanagan College
- Selkirk College
- Thompson Rivers University
- University of British Columbia
Mitacs Funding Partnership
Through our funding partnership with Mitacs, we provide enhanced support for research projects focused on driving economic diversification in the Southern Interior. Since FY2022, ETSI-BC and Mitacs have partnered to cover 75% of the cost the first internship unit of Accelerate and BSI funding programs offered by Mitacs, providing applicants with 3:1 leveraging for the first module of a Mitacs research project. These projects can involve public post-secondary institutions and municipalities, businesses, non-profits, Indigenous, and community research partners in the ETSI-BC service area.
