Education and Training: Canada
From www.entrepreneurstoolkit.org
The following are some of the Canadian organizations that provide training programs relevant to social and environmental enterprises:
ECO CANADA
ECO Canada develops programs that help individuals build meaningful environmental careers, provides employers with resources to find and keep the best environmental practitioners, and informs educators and governments of employment trends to ensure the ongoing prosperity of this growing sector.
The organization offers a suite of resources designed to meet the professional needs of this rapidly growing industry, including the ECO Job Board - Canada's Largest Environmental Job Board, certification for environmental practitioners, a wage-subsidy internship program, and professional development opportunities.
- ECO Canada
- 200 - 308 11 Avenue SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0Y2
- Ph: (403) 233-0748 / Fax: (403) 269-9544
- info@eco.ca
- http://www.eco.ca
- Contact: Grant Trump, President and CEO
ECO Canada Job Board
ECO Canada's online job board provides a means for environmentalemployers to market job openings to over 60,000 people working inthe Canadian environmental sector
- ECO Canada
- Contact: Jennifer Werbicki
- jwerbicki@eco.ca.
BC Institute of Technology
BCIT’s Environmental Engineering Technology program is intended to provide the additional skills and knowledge that engineering and science graduates require to successfully work on environmental assignments such as site remediation, site audits, waste treatment facilities, wastewater management, hydrogeology, residuals management, solid waste management, industrial air pollution and recycling projects.
Graduates are prepared to function as a member of a multi-disciplinary team addressing the environmental challenges faced by the industry. Working as a member of an environmental team comprised of engineers, chemists, hydrogeologists, biologists and toxicologists, graduates of the Environmental Engineering Technology program will be uniquely positioned to operate across disciplinary boundaries.
The program is presented in a modular six-week format. Students can choose to participate in either the planned program (an accelerated mode of study) or the more traditional night school mode of study. Students in the planned program can expect to complete their technical courses after a one-year period of intense study. The industry-sponsored project and Liberal Studies courses will likely be completed during employment after completion of the technical courses. For those who choose to maintain their fulltime employment while continuing their studies, they may register in evening classes as well as the occasional afternoon class as circumstances permit.
Students may proceed at a pace of their choice, but must complete the program within seven years.
- BCIT Environmental Engineering Technology
- BC Institute of Technology
- 3700 Willingdon Avenue
- Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2
- Contact: Mr. Lorne Sampson Program Head
- Environmental Engineering Technology Program
- Tel: 604-432-8344
- Lorne_Sampson@bcit.ca
