International Experiences for Portage College Students
Portage College is a rural Alberta college with greater than 45% Indigenous students. Large steps have been taken in 2020-2021 to develop an International Strategy, that includes virtual and physical international experiences and is approved by our BOG. Portage was successful in acquiring the Outbound Mobility Grant and this funding was used to complete research […]
St. Thomas More College Latin American Field School
The Latin American Field School presents an opportunity for students to engage with issues of solidarity, justice, charity and globalization in a timeframe that works for them. Through short-term and mid-range education abroad opportunities, students can live with, and learn from, innovative farmers’ cooperatives such as La Cooperativa La Esperanza de Los Campesinos in Panama […]
RDC Abroad – Experiential Learning in International Settings
This project creates opportunities for Red Deer Polytechnic learners within the Practical Nursing Diploma and the Bachelor of Sciences, Biology programs to engage in transformative experiential learning in international settings. Through these outbound experiences, participants develop a sense of global citizenship, social responsibility, and intercultural competence. In the Practical Nursing program, participants complete their final […]
Overcoming Barriers by Crossing Borders: A Partnership with Kamuzu College of Nursing (2021-2025)
The Vanier College Malawi Nursing Exchange offers graduating students a credited seven-week internship to Malawi, Africa to apply their knowledge and skills in a different context. Students learn how limited resources and cultural beliefs and values impact health outcomes. Scarce resources, both human and material, force the students to rely on assessment skills instead of […]
Red River College Interprofessional Skills and Study Abroad (ISSA) in Denmark and Finland
The Interprofessional Skills and Study Abroad project creates opportunities for underrepresented students in RRC’s School of Health Sciences and Community Services and School of Skilled Trades and Technology to broaden their skills, experiences and knowledge while creating new connections specifically in Denmark and Finland. These opportunities not only enrich and strengthen their global skills and […]
Developing Conservation Competencies in Namibia – the Cheetah Ecosystem (2021-2025)
Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) is an internationally recognized center for conservation of cheetahs and their ecosystems located in Namibia, Africa. One of the greatest threats to cheetah is human wildlife conflict since 90 percent of the world’s cheetah live outside protected areas. Vanier College students will learn to create a sustainable space; a world in […]
Go Where Eagles Dare! International Work and Study Opportunities for Indigenous Students
Providing Indigenous students with International work and study opportunities ensures student success through innovative programming, and enriches Canada’s post secondary sector and economy with Indigenous perspectives and global partnerships. In Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies’ (SIIT’s) proposed project, (36) students from diverse academic areas will have the opportunity to prepare for and engage in domestic […]
Improving International Outbound Mobility Opportunities for Indigenous and Low-income Students
With post-secondary institutions utilizing global learning experiences to develop intercultural competence, it is imperative that all students have access to such programming. Indigenous students make up 19% and 38% of Sask Polytech’s and Parkland College’s student population respectively. However, their participation in international mobility programming does not positively correlate to their representation on campus. This […]
International Mobility Supporting Indigenous Entrepreneurs – (IMSIENT)
I’M SIENT (“International Mobility Supporting Indigenous Entrepreneurs”) provides Sault College’s Indigenous Students and Faculty an outbound international opportunity to i) enhance technical and analytical skills in partnership with Universidad Polytechnic Yucatan (UPY), ii) apply knowledge in a practical “real life” ecosystem with UPY Indigenous Students and Indigenous Entrepreneurs in Yucatan region, iii) share Indigenous Culture […]
International Service and Leadership: Accessible Work Integrated Learning for Health and Human Service students
Selkirk College and the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology, BC’s indigenous college, collaborate to provide an international opportunity to students in Health and Human Services programs who would otherwise face significant barriers in participating in an international component of their program. Selkirk and NVIT work with the Women’s Resource Outreach Center in Jamaica and the […]