For faculty building global experiences

Connecting Faculty.
Creating Experiences.

A quiet matchmaker for global educators. One introduction at a time.

Cadre finds a faculty member on the other side of the world whose course, calendar and goals genuinely fit yours, and makes the introduction personally. From there you build a COIL collaboration together — your students and theirs on one shared project, across borders, without a travel budget.

Join the founding cadre — free

Now recruiting International Business faculty across the Americas, Europe and Latin America.

The problem

The pressure to internationalise is rising.
Your students' budgets aren't.

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Mobility is a luxury

With today's cost of living, study abroad is out of reach for most students. The ones who would benefit most travel least.

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Finding partners is a slog

Cross-border collaboration means cold emails, conference luck, or scrolling directories of hundreds of profiles hoping one fits.

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Platforms weren't built for you

Existing tools are expensive, clunky, and priced for institutions — not for a professor with a full teaching load.

The solution

The right colleague, found for you.

Cadre matches you with faculty around the world whose curriculum and goals fit yours — then arranges a casual video introduction. No directories to scroll. No fees to join. No inbox full of requests.

Smart technology does the searching.
You do the connecting.

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Int'l Business Prof.
Guadalajara
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Prof. of Marketing
Liverpool
How Cadre works

Three steps. It all leads to one moment.

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Share your profile

Your curriculum, focus, and the experience you want to build for students. Five minutes, once.

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We find your match

Smart matching searches quietly in the background — no scrolling hundreds of profiles.

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The moment that matters

Your first meet

A casual 30-minute video introduction. No agenda, no pressure — just two educators discovering what they could build together.

Our philosophy

Slow connections, on purpose.

"We're tired of it too — the connection collecting, the feed scrolling, the networks that never lead anywhere. Cadre is the opposite."

One introduction at a time

Connections arrive at a human pace — a routine, not another inbox to manage.

Tech searches, you connect

Matching works quietly behind the scenes. The relationship is entirely yours.

A network with a purpose

Every connection exists to create outcomes for students — not follower counts.

By educators, for educators

We ask for thirty minutes of your time, not thousands of dollars.

Beyond the introduction

Then we help you build the experience.

A great connection is the start, not the finish. Our team has spent fifteen years designing online international work sprints — real projects, with real clients, that give students genuine global work experience from their own campus.

When you and your match are ready to build, we bring the frameworks, templates and experience design — so you never start from a blank page.

Two courses

Yours and theirs — curriculum, calendar and goals close enough to actually work together.

One conversation

A thirty-minute introduction. No agenda, and no obligation to take it further.

One shared project

Eight weeks, both cohorts, a single brief — and something real at the end of it.

Field notes

What the work actually looks like.

Two kinds of writing: case studies of real partnerships, worked up with the faculty who ran them, and general guides for anyone who hasn’t started one yet. For colleagues who would rather see the work than read a pitch.

Case study

Ohio State and Lovisenberg, Oslo

32 nursing students across two institutions, comparing how a universal and a market-based health system serve marginalised populations.

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How-to

Running your first COIL project

A general sequence for getting a first collaboration off the ground: one shared outcome, two calendars that don’t match, and who grades what.

September 2026
Best practice

Where COIL partnerships come unstuck

The common failure patterns, and the ones that structure agreed up front will fix better than goodwill applied later.

September 2026
Read the field notes

cadre — the small trained core around which something larger is built

The founding cadre

Starting focused: International Business first.

We're recruiting a small founding cadre of International Business faculty across two to three global corridors — dense enough that every member gets genuinely relevant matches from day one.

100–150

founding faculty members, recruited through personal networks and peer referral

2–3

global corridors to start — e.g. North America ↔ Europe ↔ Latin America

$0

for founding members — free matching, first introductions, and a voice in shaping the platform

Who's behind this

Built by educators who've done this before.

Founders with fifteen years designing work-based learning experiences — joined by an academic advisor keeping us honest about what COIL actually needs.

Neil Finnie

Neil Finnie

Co-founder

Co-founder of NexGen Careers, designing online and onsite international work-based learning experiences for 15 years.

Neil on LinkedIn
Andreu Gual Falcó

Andreu Gual Falcó

Co-founder

Co-founder of NexGen Careers, Barcelona — online and onsite learning experience designer and facilitator across Europe.

Andreu on LinkedIn
Carter Rockhill

Carter Rockhill

Academic Advisor

Director, Master’s of Business: Design, Innovation & Sport Management, Carthage College — building international work-based learning experiences abroad.

Carter on LinkedIn
The ask

Be part of the founding cadre.

Free, always, for founding members: matching, first introductions, and a real voice in shaping the platform faculty actually want. Every member is personally verified before joining — this is a faculty-only space, and we keep it that way. Know a colleague abroad who should be here? There's a spot for that below.

Cadre is for faculty — please use your institutional address, not a personal one.

Everything below is optional — but the more you share, the better your first match. You can also complete this later by email.

Every application is personally verified — faculty only. Free for founding members, always.