The OceanPath Fellowship provides community-focused experiential learning opportunities for graduating students to become active and effective change-makers, bringing new ideas and working closely with communities to foster sustainable and positive social change in Canada and around the world.
The Coady Institute is excited to partner with the following universities in offering this Fellowship: McGill University, Queen's University, University of Ottawa and St. Francis Xavier University.
The year-long Fellowship is designed for students who have:
- demonstrated the capacity and potential to develop as effective change-agents;
- a meaningful connection with a community of their choosing, locally, nationally or internationally; and
- EITHER an innovative idea of how this community could be strengthened or developed OR a connection with a positive and sustainable community development initiative in any field already underway within this community that they would like to build upon.
Candidates do not need to develop a complete project at application stage, but rather have an interesting and innovative idea of something that could strengthen the community that can then be further developed in the first few months of the program, informed by the on-campus and distance learning components.
Upon selection to the program, Fellows are provided with up to $25,000 to contribute to:
- a living allowance (including housing, food, local transport and insurance);
- travel and travel-related expenses, to cover airfares to and from home locations to Coady for on-campus components as required and to the community (if not your own), and, for those traveling internationally, such things as visas, immunisations and health insurance; and
- project funding, to cover project-related expenses such as start-up and operational costs.
Integrated throughout the program is the Coady Institute's innovative and blended approach to citizen-led, community-driven, asset-based community development. On-campus and distance learning educational methods incorporate a participant-focused, flexible learning agenda underpinned by strong adult education principles, technical expertise, and technological support.
Program Schedule
Following review of applications, up to 20 shortlisted candidates will be invited and funded to attend a centrally conducted Selection Day at one of the partner universities, consisting of participatory and interactive activities with the other candidates along with an individual interview with the Selection Committee. All shortlisted candidates MUST make themselves available to attend Selection Day on March 14th, 2015.
| Foundations for Community Change | Pre-community planning |
Final
planning workshop | Community phase | Debriefing & Evaluation |
| Coady 3 weeks Jun 8 - 26 2015 | Home locations 2 months Jun 27 - Aug 30 2015 | Coady 1 week Aug 31 - Sep 4 2015 | In communities 9 months Sep 7, 2015 - Jun 3, 2016 |
Coady
1 week Jun 6 - 10 2016 |
The 2015/16 cohort of up to 12 Fellows will participate in:
- June 8 - 26, 2015. The Foundations for Community Change (FCC) experiential learning component on-campus at the Coady Institute during which Fellows are introduced to the Coady approach to development; self-assessment and analysis of leadership styles and interactions with others; working equitably with communities; and participatory project planning and management, including such topics as financial management and monitoring, evaluation and learning.
- June 27 - August 30, 2015. A pre-community planning phase during which Fellows return home and further develop their concept based on learning from FCC.
- August 31 - September 4, 2015. A final planning workshop at the Coady Institute that provides opportunity for feedback and further development of Fellows' concepts as well as preparing them for their engagement with the communities in which they will work, whether local, national or international. Sessions include such topics as equitable community engagement, Fellows' roles and responsibilities, safety and security concerns, and any final logistic and administrative requirements.
- September 7, 2015 - June 3, 2016. The community phase is when Fellows will work in and with their identified communities. During this phase Fellows will receive ongoing support and distance learning from Coady, including regular check-ins and scheduled online webinars.
- June 6 - 10, 2016. A debriefing and evaluation at the Coady Institute when Fellows will evaluate personal and professional growth, outcomes from the community phase, next steps, and visioning of possibilities in their journey as change-makers.
How To Apply
You can now apply online for the 2015/16 cohort of the OceanPath Fellowship. The application deadline is February 12th, 2015. Applications will only be accepted electronically using the online form below. If you wish to preview the entire application, you may do so here.
This Fellowship is only for graduating fulltime students from McGill, uOttawa, Queen's and StFX universities who are under 29 years old and are Canadian citizens or permanent residents.
If you do not meet these eligibility criteria, please look at our other opportunities - http://www.coady.stfx.ca/themes/youth/
You have the option of saving a partially completed form with a login and password that you create, and returning to it later. Your login must be an email address, and your password must be at least six characters and contain a number and an upper-case letter.
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