Training Program

Training Program

Funds Canadian universities and training providers to develop and deliver AI and digital skills training programs.

Scale AI's Training Program provides financial support to Canadian training providers — including universities, accelerators, and education-technology companies — to develop and deliver artificial intelligence and digital intelligence skills training for professionals preparing for AI-driven roles. The programme operates Canada-wide and is one of three talent-focused initiatives Scale AI administers alongside the AI Research Chair Program and the STEM Youth Awareness Program. Funding flows to the training provider organisation, not to individual learners or to employers seeking to reimburse their staff's training costs.

Eligible applicants must be registered and operating in Canada and must function as a training-delivery organisation. Universities are the primary eligible entity type; for-profit ed-tech companies, accelerators, and non-profit training bodies are also eligible. Scale AI's broader cluster is capitalised by CAD 284 million from the Government of Canada and CAD 53 million from the Government of Quebec, and it operates as Canada's designated AI Global Innovation Cluster under the Innovation Superclusters Initiative. Award amounts, match requirements, and cohort timelines for the Training Program are not publicly published in the current programme documentation.

Organisations interested in applying should navigate to the talent section of scaleai.ca for current programme listings and contact information. Training proposals must target professionals transitioning into or advancing within AI-driven roles; curricula focused purely on academic research or consumer-facing digital literacy are less aligned with Scale AI's supply-chain and value-chain productivity mandate. The delivery-via-partner structure means Scale AI's investment committee evaluates both the quality of the proposed curriculum and the operator's demonstrated capacity to reach and graduate working professionals at scale.