Developing Human Capital

What We Support

Here are some of the ways we work with the region’s post-secondary institutions, graduates, researchers, and businesses to help create jobs in our region and share knowledge:

• Sponsoring entrepreneurship centres and/or tech transfer centres at post-secondary institutions. 
• Providing matching contribution toward student internships focused on current business recovery needs such as digital adaptation, social media, market research, etc. eg. MITACS.
• Hosting an annual get-together of post-secondary partners to discuss expanding links to industry and share best practices in entrepreneurship support.
• Providing matching contributions toward student applied research projects for industry.

We work directly with the Post-Secondary Institutions to build these solutions. Contact us if you want to learn more.

Post-Secondary Institutions in Our Region

With this funding stream, ETSI-BC helps enhance the development of local talent by supporting entrepreneurship development, and partnerships between post-secondary institutions and businesses. Our goal is to:

• Invest in educational programming at post-secondary institutions that are focused on practical business applications and encourages entrepreneurship.
• Support regional research projects that connect post-secondary and industry and help develop practical skills of local students and recent graduates.

These are the post-secondary institutions in our region that we work with:

• College of the Rockies
• Okanagan College 
• Selkirk College
• Thompson Rivers University
• University of British Columbia 
• Nicola Valley Institute of Technology

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