Apprenticeship: Apprenticeship Capital Grant

More information about the process for procuring and installing plaques and stickers will be provided in the 2025-26 AGC CFP transfer payment agreement.

To ensure that consistent and accurate information is provided, proponents will have the opportunity to submit questions through a formal Question and Answer process. Questions regarding the 2025-26 ACG CFP should be submitted by e-mail by June 11, 2025 to: ACGCFP@ontario.ca. Responses to any questions submitted will be added to the ACG CFP Question and… Continue reading Can proponents connect with their local MLITSD office with questions regarding the content of their proposal submission?

Event Date CFP Guidelines and Application Issued June 4, 2025 Deadline to submit questions to the Ministry June 11, 2025 Responses to questions posted by Ministry June 25, 2025 CFP Closing Date July 2, 2025 Proponents notified of the outcome of their submission Anticipated late summer/early fall of 2025 Approved project start Following negotiation and… Continue reading What are the timelines for the CFP?

All project activities must be completed within 12 months of contract start date. For equipment, this means it must be installed and functional by the end of the project transfer payment agreement (“the agreement”). The ministry will not pay for any cost overruns nor make provisions for when the project is not completed or goes… Continue reading What happens in the event a project runs overtime, i.e., beyond 12 months?

The additional space must be added onto an existing building on an existing campus. Building a second floor or adding a room within an existing building that increases the overall square footage of the building, would be considered an addition and would be subject to the 50/50 cost sharing stipulation. An addition to a building… Continue reading Are there any restrictions on what is eligible for additions to buildings?

ACG is meant to support apprenticeship in-class training. TDAs approved for and delivering in-class training must follow current curriculum standards. As part of the CFP application, TDAs should link projects to the curriculum as evidence for why the project is needed. Please note, effective January 2022, Skilled Trades Ontario (STO) has assumed responsibility for the… Continue reading Please clarify what the following statement means “Activities and projects must align with curriculum standards for the trade(s)?”

Yes, in-kind or monetary contributions to support a project can be provided by entities outside of the Training Delivery Agent network, such as employers or industry associations.

The ministry is looking to TDAs for new ideas on innovative teaching technologies in their application. Innovation takes original, different, out-of-the-box, and/or creative ideas and turns them into new approaches in order to improve the quality of training and have a positive impact within the province’s apprenticeship and skilled trades system.

Yes, multiple pieces of equipment can be proposed under one project and the equipment can be a combination of replacement of previous equipment and the purchase of new or used equipment. However, the purchase of equipment must be within the same scope of project and activity and be for one primary trade. For example, the… Continue reading Understanding that a proposal can only include one activity, can a project proposal to purchase equipment, include the purchase of multiple pieces of equipment? Can the purpose of the purchase be a combination of replacement of equipment and new equipment?