
Training and mentoring programs for displaced researchers and students in Canada
This database gathers publicly available training and mentoring programs for displaced students and researchers in Canada
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Beat the Odds Internship Program
Undergraduate
Refugee student
Concordia University
Paid internship in a relevant organization
English & French
A paid internship for students helping them gain professional mentorship, workshops, and peer network.
Connect Concordia Mentorship Program
Undergraduate
Undergraduate student who is apart of an equity-deserving group (lists newcomers and refugees as a group eligible)
Concordia University
Mentorship program
English
Mentorship program for undergraduate students, mentors can be Concordia staff, faculty, alumni or graduate students. The program encourages equity deserving students to apply (but I'm unsure if it is designed specifically just for equity-deserving groups), and after the mentorship program is complete students will receive a $140 participation award.
Cracking Canadian Academia Skills Development Workshop
Researcher
Scholars and artists at risk
The Royal Society of Canada
Mentoring, workshops
English & French
Through this program, the RSC invites candidacies for membership from academics and artists who have been displaced through war, conflicts or threats of violence and who, prior to their displacement, were engaged in innovative and entrepreneurial activity, demonstrating a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration, leadership and responsibility to communities, and who were making meaningful contributions to society.
The workshop will give candidates the opportunity to learn about the RSC and about navigating academia in Canada. Workshop participants will be encouraged to apply for RSC Membership.
Navigating the Quebec School System
Undergraduate
Refugees, protected persons, resettled refugees with PR in Quebec
The Refugee Centre
Information
English & French
Navigating the Quebec School System guide from the Refugee Centre Integration, Sustainability and Aid. Includes sections detailing post-secondary and CEGEP.
Newcomer Students Association
Undergraduate
post-secondary newcomer, immigrant, and refugee students
Newcomer Students' Association (formerly the Newcomer Students' Association of Ryerson - NSAR)
Mentorship, annual scholarship, public forums, netoworking opportunities, annual conferences and leadership programming, immigrant women and students specific prgoramming, events and workshops
English
Non-profit organization that helps post-secondary students with the transition into school, through education and training, leadership development programs, research and advocacy, and community and civic engagement. They have networks/programs for racialzied and immigrant women to build communtiy through support groups, volunteer and leardership training and info and referrals. They also do research on post-secondary education for barriers that refugee students face.
Pacific Immigrant Resources Society
Undergraduate
Immigrants and refugee youth
Pacific Immigrant Resources Society
Video guides
English
Page on supporting Immigrant and Refugee Youth to access Higher Education, page includes videos that act as a guide for writing applications, forms of funding, mental health resources, and advice for first-year students but also for university in general (future goals and career, friendship, etc.)
