For nearly 20 years, the Las Nubes Project has provided York University students with immersive summer field courses. Now, we’re bringing this incredible opportunity to high school students! This 7-day program offers a unique chance to explore and learn in the vibrant, tropical landscapes of Southern Costa Rica. Students will engage with local rural communities,
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The Study Abroad Program at Las Nubes EcoCampus offers several courses during the academic year, through which students are given an unprecedented opportunity to interact with and learn from the local rural Costa Rican communities through first-hand lessons on tropical ecology, sustainability, indigenous education, arts, health, and conservation. The emphasis of our programs is on
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The Las Nubes Student Association (LNSA) is an organized student group at York University that was initiated to promote sustainable ecological conservation and social sustainability practices in the biological corridor of the Las Nubes region of Costa Rica. At the LNSA, we aim to create awareness about the Las Nubes project, and to get students
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Every year we celebrate the Alexander Skutch Festival on the weekend closest to his birthday, May 20th. This date coincides with the Semester Abroad, and so the Festival serves as a space that gathers together York students and local communities. The Festival began in 2013 and was started by Professor Felipe Montoya as a space
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The permanent presence of Las Nubes in the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor and its ongoing relationship with local and regional communities and stakeholders give us a privileged position to carry out long-term research. Las Nubes supports student research through research grants and promotes Faculty research projects in collaboration with partners outside York University. Research emphasis
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Study Abroad Program The Las Nubes Project is committed to educating Canadian and Costa Rican students, as well as local communities within the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor (COBAS), on environmental issues and sustainable practices. By the mid-2000s, the Las Nubes Project launched a field course focused on tropical ecology, sustainability, and environmental education. Its success
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You can contribute to our project by contacting York University’s Division of Advancement and specifying a donation to the Fisher Fund for Neotropical Conservation, or you can contact the Las Nubes Project & EcoCampus Director Felipe Montoya or Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Dean Alice Hovorka. Donate to Las Nubes Project
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La Casita Azul is an education and learning resource centre that supports York’s increasing socio-environmental research, education and community outreach within Costa Rica. Situated in the midst of the local communities in Costa Rica, La Casita Azul supports and enhances York’s Eco-Campus in Costa Rica while playing an important role in research intensification, knowledge mobilization,
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Our Mission Under the direction of Dr. Felipe Montoya, the Las Nubes Project’s mission is to contribute to community wellbeing in ways that are compatible and conducive to environmental conservation. Las Nubes does this through faculty and student research, environmental education, and community engagement initiatives. Through the Project’s permanent and long-term presence and relationship with
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One of the pillars of our project is community engagement. For over two decades, Las Nubes Project has worked hard to create a space in which local concerns and initiatives are heard and addressed when possible. Our presence in the area was key to the creation of the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor (ASBC) in 2006.
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