Achieving Equity and Global EDI-D-I Competence in the Canadian Health Sector Workforce
One hundred underrepresented Canadian students undertaking courses in the health professions at Western University and University of Manitoba will be equipped with Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Decolonization and Indigeneity (EDI-D-I) knowledge and skills, to prepare them for frontline work in Africa (or in similar global settings) as well as in Canada. The project will create sustainable […]
Supporting students who are Indigenous, disabled, and low income in global engagement experiences: Inclusion by diversifying approaches, design, and destinations.
This project will increase the participation of target student groups in international education by designing diverse targeted programs along with promotions, procedures and wraparound supports. The project goes beyond an equity approach and ensures students feel a sense of belonging by their participation in the research and design. To provide more non-traditional destination options, Laurier […]
Go Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Action Student Challenge
The Go Global Sustainable Development Goals in Action Student Challenge will empower York students and their peers around the world to take action towards the achievement of SDGs with a global lens. Through facilitated discussions, workshops and immersive abroad opportunities, York University students will develop global competencies, leadership, digital fluency and project management skills necessary […]
Employability, Engagement and Experience (3E): Preparing our students for the future
Four units at the University of Victoria dedicated to cooperative education, Asia-Pacific initiatives, Indigenous research and community-led engagement, and development studies have come together to offer innovative student mobility opportunities in the Global South. We do so by leveraging established partnerships and years of wrap-around programming in Asia and Africa to provide 64 students (90% […]
UVic International Mobility Access Project
The UVic International Mobility Access Project aims to reduce barriers for University of Victoria undergraduate Indigenous students, students with disabilities and low-income students to access and participate in UVic’s international exchange programs. The project includes collaboration with specialized units across campus and international exchange partners with expertise in the delivery of programs and services for […]
Powering Change: Innovating Accessible International Work-Integrated Learning (iWIL) with Focus on Intercultural Competencies and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Post-Pandemic Environments
Well-prepared students are powerful change agents, both locally and globally. From September 2021 – March 2025, through lenses of intercultural effectiveness competency development and advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, students who are Indigenous, have disability needs or traditionally face barriers of low-income will undertake 65+ transformational iWIL experiences via established and new international partner […]
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 First Year STudy Abroad ExPeriences (Go Global STEPs)
The Go Global First Year STudy Abroad ExPeriences (Go Global STEPs) is a sustainable and scalable program to provide 420 first-year students with an opportunity to participate in short-term faculty-led study abroad programs. Supported by a direct institutional match of 178%, the program will ensure that 5% of undergraduate students have an international experience, with […]
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 […]
iWIL Go Global: International Work Integrated Learning Abroad – UWindsor International
The iWIL Go Global – Experiential Learning Abroad program builds off University of Winnipeg’s experience embedding experiential learning into academic programs by providing options for students to participate in either in-person or virtual international work-integrated learning (iWIL) opportunities, including global work-integrated learning (e.g., paid and unpaid internships and cooperative education placements), community service-learning posts and […]