From Local to Global
Niagara College (NC) has long-standing experience in supporting students to study and work abroad. The Global Skills Competency funding assists in the exponential growth in our development of more opportunities and increase in access to participation. Anticipating a gradual re-entry to travel abroad, we begin by offering virtual learning opportunities, which strategically ladder into short […]
Georgian College Outbound Mobility Project
This outbound mobility project aims to strengthen existing partnerships within non-traditional destination countries within the Erasmus + geographical area, at the same time ensuring learner’s global competencies development and equal access to the outbound mobility of all existing Georgian students, with priority given to low-income students, students with disabilities and indigenous students. This project will […]
Global Employment Opportunities
Niagara College has long-standing experience in supporting students to work abroad. For over 20 years, Niagara College has leveraged projects, partnerships, and various funding opportunities to aid our students in participating in experiential work abroad opportunities to ensure they graduate Niagara College work-ready and world-ready. Continuing to use our success of previous work-abroad programs, NC […]
Global Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing & Co-Learning
The Global Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing & Co-Learning program provides students with an immersion opportunity to complete academic credit courses on sustainability and bi-culturalism co-guided by Indigenous elders and knowledge holders in Dunedin, New Zealand and Toronto, Canada. Together students will critically reflect on their own cultural context, identities, and their responsibility within shared spaces, thereby preparing them […]
GlobalQuest Student Mobility Program: Taking NorQuest to the World through Global Skills Opportunities
GlobalQuest is a comprehensive and integrated mobility initiative that offers NorQuest College students a range of academic and work integrated learning (WIL) opportunities while fulfilling a central tenet of the College’s International Strategic Plan: Take NorQuest to the World! With the goal of increasing access to international and cross-cultural educational collaboration in the fields of […]
Storytelling for Social Change
This project equips participants to be community changemakers through social impact storytelling drawn from their global learning experiences and rooted in their lived narratives of sustainability + equity, diversity and inclusion. Storytelling is a powerful tool for understanding who we are and inspiring action and social change, but there is inherent risk in creating or […]
Learning and Working together to Build 2026
This project provides a framework to develop and expand NIC’s Study Abroad (SA) program over the next 5 years. It builds on NIC’s previous expertise and also on current knowledge gained through projects completed under the Outbound Student Mobility Pilot Program. This project is designed based on evidence gathered and resources developed at NIC that […]
Widening Access to Global Education through Inclusive Outbound Student Mobility
Access to outbound mobility opportunities is integral in strengthening global competencies, as well as enriching Canada’s economy. However, COVID-19 epitomized a disruption to such opportunities as degree programs and outbound student mobility initiatives have traversed online and been suspended respectively. Keyano College believes this provided us with a unique opportunity. Advancing the work done for […]
Improving Energy Access in Remote Communities in Peru with Off-Grid Solar
Students learn intercultural competencies and global skills through a 15-week course involving virtual mobility experiences, culminating in an immersive 11-day physical mobility experience working on a clean energy project in a rural, off-grid community in Peru. During the classroom/virtual mobility experience, students strengthen intercultural competencies, perform international project planning, and learn about Peruvian language and […]
snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ Langara College Global Skills Development Project is poised to pivot campus culture by offering three supported pathways to increase global skills development in the targeted student populations and the wider student community by offering virtual and physical mobility options for students building transferable work skills and intercultural competence.
Langara College increases equity, access, and support for students obtaining an international educational experience through Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning-Virtual Exchange (COIL-VE), both virtual and physical working integrated learning (WIL), and Global co-op. Available to all students, however, funds prioritize resources to support low-income, Indigenous, and students with disabilities. Building on knowledge gained through the Outbound […]