This presentation will share the learning outcomes of introducing an interdisciplinary and international experiential learning experience project to engage chemistry and management undergraduate students from the University of Toronto Scarborough to engage them in a real-time project to address current issues farmers are facing in Sri Lanka and Ghana. This project is essential because, in the current times, most farming techniques around the globe are leading to several environmental problems, including water and soil contamination. To resolve these issues, thinking about sustainable and environmentally friendly approaches to farming using green chemistry principles is necessary. This problem-based, work-integrated, experiential learning project helped students identify and explore methods to address a global crisis that heavily impacts low-income farmers worldwide while grounding them in social justice and equitable practices. Student deliverables of this project will include creating content for interactive, community-engaged workshops, plays, radio shows, and dramas for spreading awareness and knowledge in the Ghanaian farming communities (e.g., as in Bilali, who did a similar for engaging communities in Africa in policing contexts). In addition, creating resources in virtual collaboration with international community partners (e.g., faculty and students from Sri Lanka) helped students to learn history and current issues from the community while developing their training projects. Finally, working in an interdisciplinary and international community allowed students to stretch their thinking beyond the course curriculum and see the application of their respective disciplines to a crisis unfolding in real time.

In this initiative, students learned reciprocity and embraced partnerships based on the mutual benefit for all groups involved in the worldwide network. Implementing this project required considerable logistical coordination and communication with internal and external stakeholders. This presentation will comprehensively summarize this project's development, implementation and impact on students' learning outcomes.