Tackle real issues facing our local communityas identified in the City of Ottawa’s Community Safety and Well-Being Plan, while working with city staff as part of your course work. 

Discover the power of personalized learning. Design your own course, set your own learning goals and earn units (credits) while exploring what interests you most.

Faculty or interfaculty challenges are short-format experiential learning courses connecting you with students from different programs and/or faculties to tackle real-world challenges in collaboration with community and industry partners.

Through fast-paced, hands-on projects or competitions, imagine, design and develop bold solutions for pressing social, economic and civic issues, in collaboration with community and industry partners.

Help create stronger communities, bring positive social change and build a university that is more engaged locally, nationally and internationally.

Your time commitment can vary from one day to several months, depending on the community partner’s needs.

Getting involved with a club or student association is one of the best ways to meet other students in your field of study or with shared interests. Develop skills while gaining practical experience working on a topic of interest.

Discover the power of personalized learning. Design your own course, set your own learning goals and earn units (credits) while exploring what interests you most.

Are you looking for a rewarding experience that showcases your entrepreneurial skills?

Develop a business idea which will help solve a problem facing our community. You can come with an idea or join a team with an existing idea!

A Capstone or Honours project is a final year course or project that students from various faculties may complete to apply their academic learnings in a practical setting.

Discover the world while studying full time at one of our partner institutions — for one or two terms — without paying international tuition fees. It’s a unique chance to broaden your horizons and enhance your academic qualifications. 

Choose from over 250 international partner institutions in 52 countries.

A Capstone or Honours project is a final year course or project that students from various faculties may complete to apply their academic learnings in a practical setting.

Help others while helping yourself! Show future employers who you really are. Express your drive to change the world by putting what you learn in the classroom to good use as a volunteer.

Tackle real issues facing our local communityas identified in the City of Ottawa’s Community Safety and Well-Being Plan, while working with city staff as part of your course work. 

Are you looking for a rewarding experience that showcases your entrepreneurial skills?

Develop a business idea which will help solve a problem facing our community. You can come with an idea or join a team with an existing idea!

Discover the power of personalized learning. Design your own course, set your own learning goals and earn units (credits) while exploring what interests you most.