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Economic Developers Association of Canada

Earn points towards your Ec.D. certification through the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV CED Program!

The ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV CED Certificate program is fully-online, available wherever you live, work and play. It is taught over eight months and contains ALL of the following courses.

Upon successful completion of the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV CED Certificate, EDAC will award 30 points in total, based on the following allocation of points:

Group 1: 10 points

  • CED121 Indigenomics 1: CED and Reconciliation 
  • CED122 Economic Development for Well-being 
  • CED123 Sustainable Development: People, Planet and Places 
  • CED124 Locanomics 1: Principles for Community Prosperity 
  • CED127 Resilience 1: Community Economic Resilience

Group 2: 10 points

  • CED126 Sustainable Leadership 1: Making Change Happen
  • CED222 Social Entrepreneurship: Creating Social Value
  • CED228 Financing CED 1
  • CED321 CED Project

    These courses (which are contained within the certificate), earn you an additional 2.5 points for each course:

  • CED125 Rural CED 1: Natural Resource Communities in Transition
  • CED223 Co-operative Economic Systems
  • CED230 CED Approaches to Food
  • CED231 Developing CED Accelerators and Labs

 

How to obtain the Certified Ec.D.from EDAC

  • Must be an EDAC Member in good standing
  • Minimum of 3+ Years of economic development experience
  • Accumulation of 45 Points (of which the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV CED Certificate earns you 30 points)
  • Complete EDAC’s Exam with 75% or higher

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Contact us at ced-info@sfu.ca today.