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Faculty & staff

Creating or renewing international agreements

Faculty and staff members interested in exploring a new international partnership are invited to liaise with the Office of Global Engagement.

New international partnerships may focus on students, staff, and faculty exchanges; articulation agreements; co-operative education; Erasmus+, double/dual degrees and other collaborations.

Prospective new partnerships go through an assessment process, which includes a number of considerations such as:

  • Support from a UVic department/school
  • Alignment with Faculty objectives
  • Alignment with the university's Strategic Plan and Global Engagement Strategy,
  • Benefits for the partner institution and UVic

Types of agreements

The following types of agreements are managed and coordinated by the Office of Global Engagement:

A non-binding expression of intent to collaborate. An MOU is used when the University as a whole is seeking the collaboration. It may include faculty-staff mobility or research exchange.

A non-binding expression of intent to collaborate. An LOI is used when a specific unit or faculty is seeking the collaboration.

A binding agreement that sets out the terms of engagement for specific activities between the partners (e.g. micro-certificates, TNE, short courses, executive education, etc.).

A binding agreement that sets out of the terms of engagement to send and receive students to complete a learning experience (typically includes academic course work, co-op, research or practicum placements).

A binding agreement that sets out the terms of collaboration for receiving fee-paying students as transfer students into third (or another) year to complete a UVic undergraduate degree. It might lead to a Joint or Double Degree Program, and might also include faculty-staff mobility or research exchange.

A binding agreement that sets out of the terms of engagement to send OR receive students to complete a learning experience. These agreements are used to formalize unidirectional student mobility arrangements (typically fee-paying).

A binding agreement that sets the terms of engagement to send and receive faculty-staff to complete teaching or learning experiences (training, course work, lectures, research, etc.).

How to proceed

Contact the Global Partnerships team in the Office of Global Engagement to explore your proposed collaboration.