Closing the Employer Gap on Global Skills Gained through Mobility
International mobility for students is expected to build the employability skills deemed vital for success in the workforce. To build a concrete evidence base to prove that a study abroad experience does help students get jobs, the employer voice needs to be included. This project will do a national scan of key employers, to gain […]
Empower Travellers to Better Manage Risks
The responsibility of managing risk traditionally lies within the systems that govern institutions, and rarely with the end users: the travelers, for whom risk processes are in place. Most often these travelers are students, including students who may be considered vulnerable and at higher risk for a multitude of reasons they may not be aware […]
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 […]
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 […]
Global Land-Based Learning: Indigenous Interconnection in Mobility Programming
This project produced a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) module co-developed by staff at Humber and Otago Polytechnic for students at both institutions. Through indigenous teachings and group sharing, students explored their layered identities, relationships with land, and worked in teams on a “wicked problem” to build intercultural competence and professional networking skills. The project […]
Risk Management Toolkit for CICan Members
This project is the first step toward the establishment of sector-wide tools and resources to expand the education abroad capabilities of CICan members, while mitigating risk. The project began with conducting Canada’s first baseline study of risk management practices for education abroad, informed by a sample group of 17 CICan member institutions. Results of this […]