Reinforcing Organizational Risk Management Capabilities Associated with International Mobility Stays
This project involves the implementation of a risk management strategy for international opportunities (drafting policies, instructions, and procedures) and helps the CEGEP to develop a toolbox in order to operationalize the governance process, with particular emphasis on: Evaluating travel safety (recognition of risks) Agreements with students Checklist to evaluate the capabilities of partner organizations […]
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 […]
Increasing Indigenous and Underrepresented Voices Through International Mobility
This project will support George Brown College in increasing equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in study abroad and work-integrated learning (WIL) programming and services. The college aims to build a culture of equity, reconciliation and belonging by creating a learning and working environment that embraces and honours the complex intersecting identities of our learning community […]
Increasing Access and Equity for Outbound Mobility
This project supports increased access to the benefits of GSO by developing an online tool to maximize the career and global skills students obtain through the GSO program. The project also demonstrates a model that enhances physical mobility by building collaboration with partner institutions before and after travel, and increases access for students unable to […]
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 […]
Business Approaches for Emerging 21st Century Issues
This mobility project addresses the challenges of a quickly changing, pluralistic, and globalized society through a one-week international mobility program to the UAE. This program impacts several domains of students’ life such as personality development, identity, intercultural competencies, self-efficacy, academic development, and professional opportunities.
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.
Exploring Culture, History, and Local Water Security in Costa Rica and the Yucatán
Taught and Term Abroad programs provide more students with the ability to travel safely in groups and for shorter lengths of time. This innovative new project aligns with several USask signature research areas: Water; Communities and Sustainability; and Agriculture, Energy, and Mineral Resources. This project also incorporates issues of Indigenous cultures, sustainable development, equity, social […]
Waterloo and the World
Students are powerful change agents. Through lenses of intercultural effectiveness, competency development and advancing the SDGs; students who are Indigenous, have disability needs or face barriers of low-income will undertake transformational International Work-Integrated Learning (iWIL), student exchanges, Global Experience Certificate (GEC) activities, and embedded field course experiences via established and new international exchanges, partner social […]