VIA Vancouver Institute for the Americas

VIA Vancouver Institute for the Americas (1998–2007)[1] was a Canadian organization of higher education, that operated under the umbrella of the UBC Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, dedicated to the research and projects implementation of education for sustainable development centered in the academic integration of the Americas, under the guidance of the International Bureau of Education.VIA operated from their main training center located at 470 Granville Street,[2] Vancouver, in the province of British Columbia, and from their southern regional training center located at Las Condes, in Santiago, Chile.

VIA was an institute registered at the Ministry of Advanced Education of British Columbia as a provider of higher private education,[3] allowing to provide accredited certifications and its programs qualified for provincial financial assistance and Canadian government scholarship programs.

VIA's implementations of sustainable education projects were mainly funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), impacting the fields of research and professional development for e-learning and the Global Education industry working with UNESCO ASPNet initiatives.

VIA's main research program was centered in human resources, with a focus on inclusion of multi-generational and gender equity in the workplace; these projects were affiliated and funded by University of British Columbia, UNESCO and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

[10] Among VIA's main initiatives, it is well recorded at UBC its pioneering program of academic mobility across the Americas, and its active participation in the transformation process of digital academic curriculum working with the Global e-learning project ENLACES-Mineduc, based in Chile; also its affiliation to FLACSO University research projects.