The Flexible Interdisciplinary Internship is an innovative program which is comprised of an upper-year university credit course designed to teach job-relevant skills and an environmental, agricultural, or food sector internship with a host organization. The Ontario Agricultural College within the University of Guelph seeks to collaborate with host organizations in Canada and internationally to establish internships. In the past, students have interned with consultancies, government, conservation authorities, non-profits, private sustainable energy firms, and more.Flexible internship model for employersMore robust talent pipelines for the industryOpportunity to provide input on industry-relevant skills and needsStrategic partnership opportunity

Learners are mainly graduate students in a Masters program for Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship. Throughout this project and the course in which they are participating, students will learn frameworks of project management that will allow them to use these skills for practical benefits to clients in innovative industries and with creative projects in commercialization of new ideas or with entrepreneurship efforts.Learners will participate in teams over a 8-10 week period in an academic semester and execute their client's project. In this process, learners will establish project scopes, statements of work, detail risk assessments, develop a timeline to execute the project, establish metrics of performance, and execute the client deliverables.Learners will provide a final live (Zoom or Teams) presentation and a final report documenting the completion of their objectives as deliverables.

The Flexible Environmental Internship is an innovative program which is comprised of an upper-year university credit course designed to teach job-relevant skills and an internship with a host organization. The Ontario Agricultural College within the University of Guelph seeks to collaborate with host organizations in Canada and internationally to establish internships.Flexible internship model for employersMore robust talent pipelines for the industryOpportunity to provide input on industry-relevant skills and needsStrategic partnership opportunity

Are you a business in the food/agricultural sector experiencing a challenge related to marketing, growth, or strategy? Work with students completing an independent study at the University of Guelph to gain valuable insights and develop a plan for success. Students will devote 140 hours to your project, and the deliverables will be agreed upon between the business and the student. Students are in their third or fourth year of undergraduate studies in agricultural economics and business and have gained knowledge of and skills with a focus on food and agricultural industries inquantitative analysis , e.g. using regression analysis, strategic analysis, e.g. using SWOT, PESTELplanning tools, e.g. Business Model Canvas with Value Proposition Canvaspublic policy impact analysis (cost-benefit analysis)Students have good communication and team working skills.