Employability Experience Fund

Taking you from Employment to Employability for Life

Looking for ways to stand out to employers and get the competitive edge?
Now's your chance to be rewarded financially for sharpening your skills while engaging in challenges and competitions with peers and industry professionals outside the classroom!

The Employability Experience Fund offers awards to students to reduce financial barriers when they want to get involved in activities that give them industry experience and develop their employability skills.

What is an Employability Experience?

Any challenge based activity or competition that allows students to develop their employability skills to solve everyday or industry problems. Some examples of these experiences are Hackathons, Skills Competitions, Industry Projects, or Challenges. These experiences are created, supported, and/or run by members of your Faculty or the Centre for Innovations at Humber.

These experiences are another way to put your skills into action to make you more employable. To learn more about the Skills in Action from Humber's Learning Outcomes ( HLOs) click here.

If you are a Humber staff or faculty member interested in sharing this fund with students for an activity or experience? Submit this form and our team will assess the eligibility of the activity or experience.

What Experiences are available?

There are many experiences offered by each Faculty at Humber! Ask one of your Faculty members (or your Program Coordinator) about what is available for you based on your program. You can also reach out the Centre for Innovations at Humber to learn what they offer. Check out this list for some examples of what's available.

You can also check out the Centre for Innovations to see what experiences are being offered:

Is your experience not listed here?

We encourage you to still apply as new experiences are created by the Faculties and Centre for Innovations every year. Be sure to share all the relevant details in the application so it can be properly assessed to see if it qualifies for funding.

Eligibility Criteria

Is the activity eligible for funding?

For an activity to be eligible it must be:

  • Unpaid.
  • Organized, supported, created or run by Humber Faculty or staff.
  • NOT a placement, WIL (Work integrated learning) or co-op.
  • Not for academic credit (i.e. marks, grades, course credit).

If you are a Humber staff or faculty member wondering if the activity you have created, run or supported is eligible for EEF funding, please Submit this form and our team will assess the eligibility of the activity.

Am I eligible for funding?

Students are eligible for funding if:

  • They are current Humber students, domestic or international (i.e. actively enrolled in a program at Humber).
  • Participating in an eligible activity (the activity is assessed by the EEF committee).
  • Not receiving credit, payment or funding from another source for their participation.

Please note that students can only apply for 1 employability experience per academic year. If you participate in more than one, you will need to choose which one you would like to submit an application for.

The maximum award given is $2000 but this is dependent on the number of hours you participated in the activity which is determined in consultation with the Humber faculty or staff supporting or running the activity.

How to Apply

If you meet all the eligibility criteria mentioned above, we encourage you to fill out an application below and wait to hear back if you are approved for funding. Applications are now open!

Application Deadline: March 1st 2026 for activities occurring from March 2nd 2025 - March 1st 2026.

Fill out an application here!

Frequently Asked Questions

Applications are reviewed monthly, and you will receive an email letting you know if you are approved within a month of applying.

Funding is awarded AFTER you have completed the experience and submitted the documentation showing you participated and completed the experience.

The amount will vary depending on the number of hours you participated in the eligible activity. Students can receive up to a maximum of $2000 in an academic year.

No! Both international and domestic students are eligible!

The list included here is only a sample of what is available at Humber so even if it not listed, still apply as you may be eligible.

No. You can only submit one application per academic year (March 1st- April 30th). You will need to decide which activity you would like to apply for funding for.

You will be informed of the specific funding amount in your approval email, which will detail the amount based on the activity and the number of hours you are participating.

Yes! March 1st is the deadline every year for applications for activities.

Once you have completed the experience, submit proof in the form of a picture of what you produced, a picture of you participating in the experience, a certificate of completion or a letter from your faculty member/ the organizer of the experience. There is a section in the application form which asks you to submit your documentation so you can log back in to the application system and submit your documentation there.

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