Global Indigenous Learning Experience Summer 2025

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Are you an Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, Inuit) student at KPU? 

Applications are now open to join an amazing 5-week hybrid global learning experience with Indigenous students at KPU and Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia.

You will participate in online sessions from Elders, scholars, and community members covering topics such as culture, history, language revitalization, place and identity, resurgence, futurisms and Indigenous sovereignty.  You will then spend one week hosting peers from Edith Cowan University here at KPU,  followed by one week in Australia embarking on cultural tours and workshops aimed at deepening understanding and appreciation of each other's cultures.

Go global: Enrich your university experience with an opportunity to enhance cross-cultural sensitivity, engage in an international experience while doing so in the comfort of your own home, and dive deeper online and in-person into topics around Indigenous people around the world. 

This initiative is a collaboration between KPU's Indigenous Services, KPU International, Kurongkurl Katitjin and International at ECU. 

Program Details

• Duration: 5 weeks
  • Virtual sessions (Zoom) 
    - 5 sessions throughout month of May:
    •  Week 1 (May 5 – 9): Opening Session (1 – 1.5 hour)
    •  Week 2 (May 12 - 16): 2-hour KPU session x 2
    •  Week 3 (May 26 - 30): 2-hour ECU sessions x 2
    - 5:30 -7:30 pm PDT (2 hours) 
     
  • In-person: 8-6 pm, Monday to Friday
    - 1 week in Vancouver /ECU students at KPU June 20 - 27 
    - 1 week in Perth / KPU students at ECU July 4 - 12
    - Cultural activities + academic sessions
    - Time available for sightseeing
• Credit value: Not for credit.
• Mode: Virtual (synchronous) and in-person.
• Student Capacity: 10 students (5 KPU and 5 ECU)  

• Fee: The program fee of $5,000 for KPU Indigenous students is subsidized by a scholarship.

  Includes:	Does not include:
  Round trip flights to Perth, Australia from Vancouver, BC Accommodation in Perth Some meals Activity costs Travel Insurance	Most meals Pocket money Visa/Passport Fees Vaccinations Other expenses not listed in the list of inclusions

Program Experience

• 2024 Cohort

• 2023 Cohort

• 2022 Cohort

The ECU component is delivered by Kurongkurl Katitjin, Centre for Indigenous Australian Education Research. The KPU component is delivered by the Indigenous Services for Students.

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