SmartICE: Developing Responsive Approaches to Training and Employment in Inuit Nunangat
SmartICE is a work-integrated social enterprise aiming to empower northern communities to adapt to increasingly unpredictable sea ice in the circumpolar arctic. SmartICE is launching a Northern Production Centre (NPC) in Nain, Nunatsiavut, which will employ Inuit youth to assemble one of its sea ice monitoring technologies: SmartBUOYs. SRDC will work with SmartICE to design, pilot, and evaluate an innovative model to sustainably train and employ Inuit youth in Nain. SmartICE will work with community stakeholders and youth to develop a contextually responsive training approach and employment opportunity for Nainimmuit youth to facilitate the assembly and testing of SmartBUOYs for use in Nunatsiavut and in communities across the circumpolar arctic. SRDC will support SmartICE by conducting a developmental evaluation of the SmartICE NPC.
Project Details
Published: December 2019
Capability: Program Evaluation/ Performance Measurement - Strengthening Capacity
Policy Area: Adult Learning - Workplace Training - Literacy and Essential Skills, Employment - Employment Supports and Services
Population: Youth - Indigenous Peoples
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