A Small College Strategy to Scale-up Study Abroad
This project leverages Innovation Fund and GSO learning to enable small colleges to scale-up learning abroad. Through the project, College of the Rockies is formalizing COIL as a sustainable internationalization option and on-ramp to physical mobility. The college works to address the small-college-challenge of scale by developing a course and opportunity abroad that is of […]
Indigenous COIL/VE Special Topics Framework: A Versatile Framework Interweaving Virtual Collaboration Projects
In this project, North Island College is developing an Indigenous COIL/VE Special Topics Framework. The framework is a versatile university-transfer course designed to meet academic expectations while providing an institutional framework for virtual exchange collaborations. This framework interweaves Indigenous pedagogies, intercultural perspectives, and land-based approaches with academic expectations that can be adapted to any community […]
CEL/TRU World: International Work Integrated Learning Project
In this project, The TRU Career & Experiential Learning (CEL) department and TRU World are collaborating to develop international work-integrated learning opportunities that supports students from all TRU Faculties and Schools to participate in international work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities. TRU World, a leader in International Education, has partners around the world that works with TRU […]
Indigenous Global Partnerships for Student Internships
From the first round of Global Skills Opportunity funding, Langara College has had many requests from Indigenous students to intern with a global Indigenous community. In the context of this project, a consultant will be hired to conduct a survey of best practices of Indigenous internships and programs as possible locations for interns. The consultant […]
Western Colleges Mobility Network
In this project, Douglas College establishes a Western Colleges Mobility Network (WCMN), a new network founded by nine colleges and institutes with the goal of increasing overall student mobility via field schools, short-term mobility, semester exchanges and hybrid opportunities. The WCMN members leverage government investments in the BC Transfer Guide and their own investments […]
Advancing Equitable Access and Integrating the UN SDGs to Enhance the Impact of Global Learning Programs
This project aims to mobilize students of all disciplines, to expand their knowledge of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and learn about the global issues and challenges we face today to innovate and create solutions for tomorrow. Initiatives include creating a new award with priority to equity-deserving students to non-traditional destinations to engage […]
Leveraging a Canadian Advantage in Asia: Strategic Expansion of the Canada-Japan Co-operative Education Program
Established in 1991, the Canada Japan Co-op Program (CJCP) has sent more than 1,200 (mostly STEM) students to Japan for work terms; the Program is comprised of a consortium of Canadian colleges and universities, with the Program office housed at UBC. The university seeks to diversify the students who participate, ultimately strengthening Canada’s future workforce […]
Designing inclusion into faculty-led and co-curricular short programs abroad
UBC uses this innovation grant to investigate and compile a repository of good practices for enhancing the accessibility of faculty-led and co-curricular programs like field schools in disciplines like conservation, geography, earth sciences, marine ecology and archaeology which are often physically and mentally demanding. A graduate students are doing this research and creating a new […]
Crossing Borders: Using the Power of Place to Build Connections
The Crossing Borders: Using the Power of Place to Build Connections project at Vancouver Island University will use place-based learning as an innovative approach to international mobility that explores the many ways in which we understand identity and who we are in differences places and spaces. Through international field schools, exchanges and internships, VIU students […]
Travelling Knowledges: Local Cultures and Environments Across Geographies
This project will permit 62 University of Northern British Columbia students in any discipline to exchange knowledge on diverse issues in cultural safeguarding, sustainability and community development. Partnering with five non-traditional countries, this project will enhance educational experience and offer opportunities for experiential learning for 43 outbound students. Past programs showed that team travel works […]