Risky Business: Developing Safe Post-Secondary Travel Cultures that Target Students
This project delivers the information, resources, and training required for consortium institutions to develop cultures that value and practice safe, informed, and inclusive student mobility. It promises to greatly increase risk management acumen of GSO students, ensuring their safety while abroad and enhancing their employability. Developed in partnership with a respected and experienced private consultant, […]
Study Abroad Software Implementation
The goal of this project is to implement software that is designed to handle student and staff mobility in post-secondary institutions. SAIT currently uses manual processes that involve multiple tools (Excel, Word, Outlook, Logiforms, etc.) to track all aspects of academic partnerships, student applications, opportunities, checklists, pre-departure training, assessments, reports, and emails. The software being […]
Impress employers by gaining cross-cultural skills and building global relationships in a group setting – travel with faculty and fellow students to non-traditional countries
Our objective is to provide students with unique international experiences involving faculty and partners in non-traditional countries. Studying abroad can be overwhelming, especially post covid – being in a group setting will help overcome the challenges. An experienced chaperone can help students in adapting to new situations while working on cultural competencies and employability.
Study Abroad in Lesotho
A Multi-Disciplinary Partnership Between Athabasca University and Relationships Inspiring Social Enterprise (RISE) in the Training of Architecture, Heritage Resources Management and Computer Science. The Study Abroad in Lesotho program is an international and intersectoral suite of training activities scheduled to running from February 2023 to March 2025. It includes a partnership between Athabasca University and […]
Learner-Centered Global Learning Program Recruitment: Harnessing the power of peer engagement through an Access & Inclusion-focused co-op placement
To provide access to global learning, we must increase outreach to and support of students who are historically excluded from study abroad. University of Calgary aims for 50% of its students to graduate with a global learning experience. To meet this goal and develop more thorough marketing and individualized pre-departure support mechanisms, UCalgary International is […]
Navigating identities abroad: Innovative EDI Resources to support diverse students abroad
Increased participation of diverse equity-seeking students in international learning opportunities is the University of Alberta’s top priority for this project. The university is committed to removing barriers and increasing participation in education abroad by undertaking the following initiatives: developing innovative online EDI resources to address the issues and challenges faced by the diverse students; enhancing […]
Creating Space: Supporting UAlberta Indigenous Students’ Participation in International Experiences
The University of Alberta has identified increasing the participation of Indigenous students in international learning opportunities as a priority. This new project builds upon the foundation created by the Outbound Student Mobility Pilot Program and strives to remove the barriers identified to studying abroad, while also creating new and innovative ways to provide the support […]
Global Indigenous Skills: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Doing, Ways of Connecting, Ways of Being
University of Calgary is investing in global skills for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, cultivating leadership, identity awareness and global networks related to Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, connecting and being. The project leverages Canada’s only International Indigenous Studies program, UCalgary Writing Symbols Lodge’s Youth Leadership programming and the ii’taa’poh’to’p Strategic Plan. Partnering with University of […]
Go Global! Removing barriers and providing wrap-around support for student-initiated opportunities
The project aims to provide opportunities outside the standard semester exchange programs. By using existing curricula and more than 50 international partners to leverage their knowledge base, the University of Lethbridge is creating new programming to encourage all students that student-initiated opportunities are possible and can be created specifically to meet their needs. Activities will […]
Abroad Together: Advancing UN SDGs through international experience.
International learning provides a valuable opportunity for students to learn about the UN Sustainable Development Goals, contextualize them as shared global challenges and appreciate the creative approaches communities in different countries are taking to address these challenges. Students return with new ideas that can be implemented locally or with increased commitment to engage in these […]