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The Cansbridge Fellowship
The Cansbridge Fellowship is a Canadian leadership development program that selects high-potential university students for self-organized internships in Asia, fostering a professional network and entrepreneurial mindset.
Overview
What The Cansbridge Fellowship does
What The Cansbridge Fellowship is
The Cansbridge Fellowship is a Canadian leadership development program that selects high-potential university students for self-organized internships in Asia, fostering a professional network and entrepreneurial mindset.
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Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Founded
- Founded in 2011
- Approximate age
- About 15 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- April 1, 2026
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The Cansbridge Fellowship as a community
Community overview
The Cansbridge Fellowship is an organization founded in 2011 by William and Diana Yu, initially at Queen's University in Canada. It aims to empower Canadian university students with exceptional leadership and entrepreneurial potential by providing them with opportunities to complete self-organized internships in Asia. The Fellowship has supported over 200 Fellows and inspired thousands of Canadians to engage with Asia and develop an entrepreneurial mindset.
Community focus
The Cansbridge Fellowship focuses on equipping high-potential Canadian university students with global experience, entrepreneurial skills, and a lifelong network. The program emphasizes understanding the rapidly changing economic and geopolitical context in Asia, preparing future leaders to collaborate and innovate across borders. Each year, approximately 15-20 Fellows are selected from a pool of around 1000 applicants.
Member value
Members gain access to a lifelong network of mentors and peers, workshops focusing on self-awareness and entrepreneurial mindsets, and a $10,000 scholarship for internships in Asia.
Membership
- Recorded members
- 200
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- hybrid
- Schedule
- cohort-based
- Commitment
- moderate
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
- Next recorded event
- October 1, 2027
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Students
- Benefits
- network-access and mentorship
- Program types
- community and bootcamp
- Selection criteria
- application
- Regions
- AsiaNorth America
Community activity
- Annual events
- 1
Events and activity
The Cansbridge Fellowship organizes an annual Cansbridge Fellowship Conference (CFC), which brings together alumni and industry leaders for workshops and networking.
Notable members
Notable alumni of the Cansbridge Fellowship include Rakan Al-Shawaf (Founder of Makeship), Nikita Kopotun (Founder of Juniper), Lyn Chen (Founder of Webapp.io), and many others who have founded successful companies.
Common questions
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Last reviewed
April 1, 2026
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