SDG Week Canada promotes interdisciplinary engagement with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Over 70 events were held across 50 campuses in Canada to advance the 17 SDGs.
Pharmacy students from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ are helping to fill clinical roles at CHEO, a pediatric hospital in Ottawa, due to the surge in respiratory virus patients.
Esteban Veintimilla (BMath ’18, MBET ’22), a University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ alum and co-founder of 1Mentor, believes his platform provides critical data on student interests and program comparison to the job market. Using AI, the platform also helps students explore career paths and identifies upskilling opportunities to prepare for their desired jobs.
Thanks to the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ co-op program and her passion for improving the healthcare system through technology, Madison McBay (BSc ‘22) co-founded the startup TAMVOES, an online platform for individuals to store and share their health information with family members and professionals.
After helping her daughter find her first co-op, Lenora Fleming donates to programs like WE Accelerate to help co-op students find employment.
Recipients of the third annual Employer Impact Awards have provided students with work-integrated learning opportunities that better prepare them for the future workforce.
R+T Park has hired many co-op students including Rose Matthews who helps to coordinate events through both digital and in-person engagement.
À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Mechanical Engineering student Orianna Min develops her Elpis startup through Enterprise Co-op Program (E Co-op). The story in À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ News highlights Min’s business, which uses biotechnology to assist people living with spinal cord injuries.
University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s co-op program is credited as an important factor in the Toronto-À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Region Corridor being ranked as one of the world’s top locations to start a company.
À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ students have more opportunities to participate in international work-integrated learning with new funding through the Powering Change program.