Vancouver Island University is part of a Canadian consortium called CALAREO that aims to:
- Encourage, facilitate, and support student mobility between Canadian and Latin American member institutions.
- Establish a scholarship program to allow Latin American students to study at the partner Canadian member institutions.
- Encourage, facilitate, and support research collaborations between Canadian and Latin American member institutions.
- Encourage partnerships that result in national and international grants to enhance research collaborations and training of graduate and undergraduate students between Canadian and Latin American member institutions.