(Term: 1 July 2007 to 31 March 2008)
Critical Infocomm Technology Resource Programme (CITREP) is a training incentive programme to equip Singapore infocomm professionals with critical and emerging skills, thus enabling them to enhance their employability and to improve their organisations’ competitive advantage.
The programme supports the course and examination fee for training courses and certifications in the following critical and emerging skill areas:
The CITREP funding support allows both infocomm and non-infocomm professionals to update and upgrade themselves in the dynamic, competitive and fast changing infocomm industry.
- CITREP
- For Course and Certification Fees Support, up to 50% of the nett payable course fee capped at S$3,000 per trainee.
- CITREP Certification
- For Certification Fee Support, up to 50% of the nett payable examination fee capped at S$500 per trainee.
Please refer to the itrain website for the list of endorsed courses and certifications.
Note: CITREP funding does not support GST, registration and membership fees, rebates, incentives, discounts or any training grants offered by the Course Providers, Testing Centres or any other organisations in relation to the endorsed courses and certifications.
To be eligible for funding support under CITREP, a trainee must:
- Be a Singapore Citizen or Singapore Permanent Resident.
- Meet the admission criteria set by the Course Provider or Certificate Awarding Body.
- Commence all training courses or certification examinations between 1 July 2007 to 31 March 2008 (or otherwise stipulated by IDA).
- Ensure that the endorsed course providers or testing centres have submitted their enrolments for their intended courses or certifications on their behalf in the iTRAIN system before the commencement of the training courses or certifications.
- For Organisation-Sponsored Trainees:
The sponsoring organisation must be incorporated or registered in Singapore.
Employees of Local Government Agencies are not eligible. Employees of these organisations can, however, qualify for CITREP under the self-sponsored category.
- For Course and Certification Fees Support::
The trainee must complete the course and pass all examinations required by the certification or post-training assessment within 12 months from the course commencement date:
- with at least 75% of the training as per endorsed roadmap.
- achieve the final certification status (applicable to certifiable programmes only).
- For Certification Fee Support:
Pass all examinations required by the certification within 12 months from the commencement date of the first examination.
IDA has developed an online system known as Infocomm Training Resources and Incentives on the Net (iTRAIN). All course endorsements and claim applications must be submitted online via the iTRAIN system. Manual application forms will not be accepted.
The sponsoring organisations and self-sponsored individuals must have a valid iTRAIN account to submit a CITREP claim. To apply for a new organisation or individual account, please click here.
All applicants must have their SingPass ID and password to access iTRAIN. To find out more and/or apply for SingPass, please click here.
To access iTRAIN, please click here.
To download CITREP guides, please click here.
Trainees who wish to claim for CITREP funding must submit their online claim applications to IDA via iTRAIN upon course or certification completion. Please refer to the Claim Application Guide for detailed application procedures.
For Organisation-Sponsored Trainees, the claim application will be submitted by the sponsoring organisation.
For Self-Sponsored Trainees, the claim application has to be completed by the individual.
All claims for CITREP disbursement must be submitted to IDA within three (3) months from completion date of the last examination or final post-training assessment. Late submissions will not be accepted. Applications with incomplete supporting documents will rejected for processing.
Interested course providers and testing centres who wish to apply to have their courses or certification endorsed under CITREP, may submit their applications to IDA for endorsement via iTRAIN. Please refer to the Course /Certification Endorsement Guide for detailed application procedures.
For enquiries, please contact:
CITREP Administrator
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
8 Temasek Boulevard
#14-00 Suntec Tower Three
Singapore 038988
Tel: +65 6324 8737 (63-CITREP)
Fax: +65 6211 2207
Email: ida_citrep@ida.gov.sg