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Wayne McKay

Wayne McKay is an educator and theatre artist who has worked as an instructor at Nova Scotia Community College for the past 5 years. At NSCC, he teaches many courses related to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility. He also acts as the faculty support person for the Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) at NSCC Sydney Waterfront Campus.

Before working at NSCC, Wayne worked for 10 years in the recreation field where he was a provincial leader in opening up recreation spaces to be more inclusive. He worked for the Province of Nova Scotia to facilitate the development of the Mi’kmaw Physical Activity Leadership program which helped to support the hiring of recreation professionals in Mi’kmaw communities across the province.

He is an outdoor enthusiast, avid runner and cyclist and loves exploring the outdoors of Cape Breton with his wife, two daughters and dog. Part of his interest in coming to Finland was to experience the excellent cycling infrastructure of Oulu and to consider how we can apply this type of community design to communities in Canada. He was extremely pleased and honoured to be part of the BIDS Inclusion Program.

Bridge the Ocean project

Bridge the Ocean is a partnership project of the Erasmus+ program, which creates a model of global mobility and cooperation between European and Canadian Colleges.

The partners are four vocational education and training (VET) colleges from Finland, two from Canada and one from the Netherlands and Denmark. In the project, two European and one Canadian study units are planned, which will be piloted with a multinational group during the project.

The project is the first European Erasmus+ VET project that involves partners from outside Europe. The main goals of the Bridge the Ocean partnership project are to increase the number of global mobility of students and experts, teachers, and at the same time promote the development of both professional and international competence and key skills.

The project seeks visibility and interest in the internationalization of VET.

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BIDS

Bridging Inclusion Digitalization & Sustainability
The BIDS project has three main objectives.

Building and strengthening partnerships to support the implementation and development of internationalization strategies.
Supporting the quality of staff and student mobility between two continents
Combining the previous two goals in such a way that we create a model of how the priorities of the Erasmus+ program, inclusion, digitalization, and sustainability, can be realized in the strategies of the VET providers.

The partners are four vocational education and training colleges from Finland, two from Canada, and one from Portugal, the Netherlands and Denmark.

The project will consist of three different modules: a Sustainability module in Nova Scotia Canada, a Digitalization module in the Netherlands, and an Inclusion module in Finland. These modules will be attended by students and staff from participating partner schools, representing a mix of different educational sectors. We believe that this diverse group will not only enhance students’ soft skills but also foster their international competences.

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