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 […]
Learning and Working together to Build 2026
This project provides a framework to develop and expand NIC’s Study Abroad (SA) program over the next 5 years. It builds on NIC’s previous expertise and also on current knowledge gained through projects completed under the Outbound Student Mobility Pilot Program. This project is designed based on evidence gathered and resources developed at NIC that […]
Widening Access to Global Education through Inclusive Outbound Student Mobility
Access to outbound mobility opportunities is integral in strengthening global competencies, as well as enriching Canada’s economy. However, COVID-19 epitomized a disruption to such opportunities as degree programs and outbound student mobility initiatives have traversed online and been suspended respectively. Keyano College believes this provided us with a unique opportunity. Advancing the work done for […]
Improving Energy Access in Remote Communities in Peru with Off-Grid Solar
Students learn intercultural competencies and global skills through a 15-week course involving virtual mobility experiences, culminating in an immersive 11-day physical mobility experience working on a clean energy project in a rural, off-grid community in Peru. During the classroom/virtual mobility experience, students strengthen intercultural competencies, perform international project planning, and learn about Peruvian language and […]
snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ Langara College Global Skills Development Project is poised to pivot campus culture by offering three supported pathways to increase global skills development in the targeted student populations and the wider student community by offering virtual and physical mobility options for students building transferable work skills and intercultural competence.
Langara College increases equity, access, and support for students obtaining an international educational experience through Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning-Virtual Exchange (COIL-VE), both virtual and physical working integrated learning (WIL), and Global co-op. Available to all students, however, funds prioritize resources to support low-income, Indigenous, and students with disabilities. Building on knowledge gained through the Outbound […]
Passage from Northwest Canada: students from northern BC, Yukon, and Northwest Territories Go Global
The project unites five northern institutions from BC, Yukon, and NWT to create and deliver international study and work experiences for students who, traditionally, have not had these opportunities. By providing our students with global skills via study abroad, we can contribute to our northern communities and build their global engagement. The members work together […]
Building Global Competencies for Students in the Blue Economy
A key component of Marine Institute’s Internationalization Strategy is creating innovative globalized learning opportunities for all MI students. A central mechanism supporting its students’ success in their academic journey is to prepare them better to succeed in a diverse and a more interconnected globalized work environment. Through GSO funding MI enhance students’ global competencies, both […]
Sustainability and Biculturalism in New Zealand
This project supports 24 students from MHC to join Otago Polytechnic’s Summer Studies in New Zealand program, with priority to Indigenous students. Students explores the culture of the Kai Tahu, a Maori tribe and the first people of New Zealand to expand their intercultural awareness, and gain awareness and skills in environmental preservation through coursework […]
FLCA@Home and Away: Intercultural learning with Indigenous and traditional peoples around the world
In the current Canadian context of urgently needed Reconciliation, Durham College (DC) proposes an innovative, faculty-led global learning opportunity that provides students with the skills needed to compete internationally and, more fundamentally, an openness to authentic learning from Indigenous and traditional peoples around the world.
Pour une mobilité étudiante inclusive
This project seeks to enable a greater number of students to undertake a student mobility project. In particular, low-income students, Aboriginal students and students with special needs will be invited to participate in student mobility projects through the awarding of inclusive scholarships and an adapted communication and support strategy. The CEGEP’s professional community will be […]