2B - Climate Action Virtual Internships: Perspectives, Impacts and Successes (60mins)
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| Tuesday, March 14, 2023 |
| 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM |
| 110B |
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Global citizenship, climate action literacy and employability– these outcomes lie at the core of an innovative, new virtual internship program which highlights our need to radically and immediately reverse course on emissions to avert catastrophic climate change.
In a unique, active collaboration, Virtual Internships and Pomegranate Global have partnered to create and deliver ‘Climate Action Virtual Internships’, a fully remote experiential learning program which focuses on critical and sustainable climate action.
This session delves into how this new partnership and the CAVI program itself have challenged and empowered both students and host companies across the Asia-Pacific region to work together to take impactful climate action.
It will highlight various insights and perspectives from stakeholders on the development of new skills, acquisition of expert knowledge, and sharing of best practices to help organisations across key industries significantly improve environmental performance and adaptability to climate change.
Our presenters will provide comprehensive impact analysis and evaluation, including which climate solutions and deliverables have had the maximum impact for APAC host organisations seeking to reduce their own carbon footprint, and how student participants and companies have come together virtually for mutual benefit and to act as advocates and agents for sustainable development change.
Learning Objectives:
● Increased knowledge and understanding of how virtual climate action can be used as an impactful platform for experiential learning and intercultural exchange, free of access restrictions
● Insights into the actions businesses across the Asia-Pacific region have taken to operate in a more environmentally sustainable way as a result of the program
● Understanding of positive stakeholder response and benefits of experiential international learning, business impacts and sustainable climate action
Target Audience:
This session will be of particular interest to stakeholders in global mobility, study abroad, and careers and employability. It will also interest anyone keen to make learning abroad more environmentally sustainable and to offer sustainability-themed programming to students.
Target Audience Level:
Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Presenter(s)
Mr Adam Dimitroff
Head of Partnerships, Asia Pacific
Virtual Internships
‘Climate Action Virtual Internships: Perspectives, Impacts and Successes’
1:45 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Adam is a versatile and accomplished strategic educational partnerships manager, student careers and employability specialist, higher education professional and Educational Technology entrepreneur.
Adam has over 15 years’ professional stakeholder management experience across the UK, Australian and international higher education sectors, specialising in student/graduate employability and mobility, career, personal, professional and academic development provision.
Ms Ailsa Lamont
Director
Pomegranate Global Pty Ltd, Australia
‘Climate Action Virtual Internships: Perspectives, Impacts and Successes’
1:45 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Ailsa spent 16 years in senior international roles at three Australian universities, including as Pro Vice-Chancellor International before founding Pomegranate Global in 2016.
Pomegranate Global is a specialist international education service provider and consultancy which focuses on how the climate crisis can be transformed into an opportunity to improve international education.
Ms Chandra Leenheer
Manager, 360 International
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
‘Climate Action Virtual Internships: Perspectives, Impacts and Successes’
1:45 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Chandra is the Manager of the outbound student mobility team, 360 International, at the University of Auckland, with over a decade of experience in international education, working in international student support, university pathway programmes, and the student mobility space.
Chairperson
Ailsa Lamont
Director
Pomegranate Global Pty Ltd, Australia
