Catalysts for Global Engagement: advancing deeper and broader student mobility at Queen’s University
This project seeks to build pathways to generate greater engagement with low-income students, students with disabilities and Indigenous students and increase greater prominence of non-traditional countries. The project focused on research to inform enhanced offerings for student exchange, including wrap-around mobility supports and developing short-term global engagement models with an emphasis on COIL.
Indigenous Student Mobility Capacity Building Pilot Program
The goal of the Indigenous Student Mobility Capacity Building Pilot Program is to provide Indigenous students access to innovative and culturally-relevant resources, support services, and materials needed to participate in international mobility opportunities. Implementing this pilot program will identify and address barriers to participation, thereby providing greater access for Indigenous students to take part in […]
Mobilité Laurentienne, dans le domaine Mines et environnement minier.
L’Université Laurentienne a mis en place une entente avec le Groupement Professionnel des Miniers de Côte d’Ivoire, ainsi que l’Institut National Polytechnique Felix Houphouet-Boigny, un institut qui gère le Centre d’Excellence Africain Mines et Environnement Minier. Ce partenariat permettra aux trois instituts de développer un programme d’apprentissage en remédiation environnementale, comprenant une dimension virtuelle et […]
Increasing Access to Study Abroad Opportunities for Students: Understanding and Reducing Barriers
This project aimed to understand barriers and facilitators to study abroad opportunities among students from various equity groups. The project engaged in retrospective data gathering and analysis, through data collection, by creating a portrait of students who currently go on exchange. The project investigated barriers and facilitators to study abroad opportunities that are faced by […]
A Building Block to Global Engagement
Student mobility is encouraged at McMaster as a means for meaningful global engagement, but in many instances, students are not adequately prepared to engage as reflexive global citizens. While the importance of preparing globally mobile students is recognized across campus, efforts to prepare students are fragmented. To engage meaningfully abroad, training in the foundations of […]
Enhancing pan-university collaboration and inclusion to support learning abroad activities to non-traditional locales amongst underserved populations
Memorial University of Newfoundland created a pan-university resource hub built upon primary research conducted with the key demographics specified in the Outbound Student Mobility Pilot Program. The resource hub address barriers to accessing learning abroad opportunities, enhance the value proposition of learning abroad initiatives, and as well as increase mobility collaboration, knowledge sharing, and best […]
Building a Pilot Intercultural Training and Assessment Module to be completed throughout the International Mobility Experience
This project focused on developing a governance document that formalize risk tolerance for running international programs and a responsive intercultural training/ assessment module for students who participate in a mobility experience. This project was developed in two folds starting with working with Aléas to lay the foundation for developing both an institutional risk management and […]
Best practices in developing and assessing intercultural competence
The ability to effectively engage in intercultural interactions is essential for individuals to thrive in our interconnected, culturally diverse world. Mount Royal University seek to compare different methods of assessing intercultural development to determine if there is alignment among these instruments and identify the strengths of each assessment tool. With this recognition, there has been […]
Out Front: Supporting Student Outbound Mobility
This project seeks to connect experiences of Canadian students, staff and faculty, with experiences from the international partner institution. Students participating in outbound mobility rely on the mobility infrastructure and support that is established by the staff and faculty within their home institution as well as support received from host institutions abroad. To determine how […]
Digitization & Enhancement of Study Abroad programs at KPU
The overall objective was to digitize, expand, and enhance existing study abroad programs at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) to meet the needs of 2021 and beyond. The study abroad landscape has vastly changed in the last year, and KPU is ready to prepare and support its students with new virtual alternatives, preparing them for when […]