Applications for BCDI 2030- Development of Employability and Training Services in Professional Integration- Now Open

The five themes presented below support the implementation of an initiative for capacity building of BCDI 2030 Scholarship Recipients (Stream 1 – Scholarships Projects for Studies in Canada) to enhance their employability skills and support their return to their home countries or countries of origin at the end of their study stay in Canada.

Theme 1: Developing and implementing a back home plan

Theme 2: Self-knowledge and Agency

Theme 3: Leadership and Women leadership

Theme 4: Developing employability skills

Theme 5: Entrepreneurship and Women entrepreneurship

McMaster may only be designated as lead for the implementation of one of the five themes and Institutions must submit its application through a central institutional account.

The purpose of this call for proposals is to select three to six Canadian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), either colleges and/or universities that are members of CICan or UnivCan, to develop, alone or in consortia (consortium of colleges, universities or college-universities), teaching materials and career webinars for BCDI 2030 Stream 1 partner educational institutions. This initiative is aimed at 80 HEIs and it is designed to strengthen the professional integration services of partner HEIs, enabling them to better support their graduates and BCDI 2030 Scholarship Recipients on their return to their home countries.

To achieve this, the initiative will be rolled out in two distinct phases:

Phase 1: Development of teaching materials and offering of webinars

Phase 2: Personalized coaching sessions

And three terms of reference presented below which support the implementation of an institutional capacity building initiative in professional insertion for HEI partners participating in the BCDI 2030 Stream 1 – Scholarships Projects for Studies in Canada.

Theme 1: Student services and Employability skills development: This theme covers the various services offered to students to support them in the different stages of preparing for employment and acquiring employability skills.

Theme 2:  Internships and work-integrated learning (WIL) This theme emphasizes the importance of work experience during studies in strengthening the links between academic theory and professional practice.

Theme 3: Entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurship and self-employment This theme aims to offer support to encourage entrepreneurship and women entrepreneurship as a viable option, and to support business creation.

McMaster may only be designated as lead for the implementation of one of the three themes and Institutions must submit its application through a central institutional account.