ICTC — Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Digital

The WIL Digital program offers wage subsidies to support Canadian businesses hiring post-secondary students. It focuses on providing financial assistance to facilitate meaningful work-integrated learning opportunities.

• Wage subsidy covering 50% of the student's salary, up to a maximum of $5,000.
• Enhanced subsidy of 70% of the student's salary, up to a maximum of $7,000 for hiring underrepresented students.

Eligibility for this grant is determined by specific requirements related to the employer's qualifications and intended operations.

• The employer must offer student work placements within the Digital Economy in Canada.
• The employer must complete the Eligibility Criteria prescreen for each intended application.
• The employer must place applications on a waitlist as part of the Eligibility Criteria Prescreen.
• The "Net new" employment requirement is in effect, meaning the position must be considered additional to existing headcount.
• Post-secondary institutions are not eligible as employers.
• Applications must be submitted in the application portal prior to the student's start date.

Who is eligible?

The ICTC WIL Digital Program is designed to support Canadian businesses that provide student work placements within the Digital Economy. Employers eligible to apply for the program include those who can offer meaningful work integrated learning opportunities for post-secondary students. However, post-secondary institutions themselves are not eligible to apply as employers under this program.

Who is not eligible

The WIL Digital program has certain restrictions on which companies are eligible to apply for wage subsidies. This aims to focus the program's impact within the desired sectors of the digital economy.

• Post-secondary institutions are not eligible as employers.

Eligible expenses

• 50% of the student’s salary up to $5,000.
• 70% of the student’s salary up to $7,000 for underrepresented students.

Eligible geographic areas

This grant is accessible to businesses across Canada as it is funded by the Government of Canada's Student Work Placement Program. It supports Canadian businesses that engage in student work placements within the Digital Economy.

• All Canadian provinces and territories.
• Businesses operating within Canada.

There are evaluation and selection criteria for this grant.

• Applicants must provide a detailed description of the proposed work integrated learning opportunity.
• The proposed opportunity should align with the goals of the Work Integrated Learning Program.
• Employers must demonstrate how the placement will contribute to the student's development of foundational and business skills.
• Priority may be given to opportunities that support underrepresented students in the workforce.

Here are additional relevant details for the ICTC's WIL Digital program:

• Employers have the option to waitlist their applications for Summer 2024 and Fall 2024 until they meet all criteria and are ready to proceed.
• Notifications will be sent to employers when their waitlisted applications are ready for completion.
• ICTC no longer applies COVID-19 flexibility measures as of April 1, 2022.