Are you under 30 years of age and a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, about to graduate from full-time undergraduate or Masters level study at McGill, uOttawa, Queen's or StFX?

Do you have a meaningful connection with a community in Canada or anywhere in the world? And an innovative idea of how that community can be strengthened or developed?

Would you like to turn that idea into reality in the next year, with ongoing Coady Institute support to help you do it?

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 completed plan 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 and the community (if required), and, for those traveling internationally, such things as visas, immunisations and health insurance; and
initiative funding, to cover 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.