Real international experiences for students — built by faculty, together, online. No travel budgets required. No directories to scroll.
Join the founding cadre — freeNow recruiting International Business faculty across the Americas, Europe and Latin America.
With today's cost of living, study abroad is out of reach for most students. The ones who would benefit most travel least.
Cross-border collaboration means cold emails, conference luck, or scrolling directories of hundreds of profiles hoping one fits.
Existing tools are expensive, clunky, and priced for institutions — not for a professor with a full teaching load.
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.
Your curriculum, focus, and the experience you want to build for students. Five minutes, once.
Smart matching searches quietly in the background — no scrolling hundreds of profiles.
A casual 30-minute video introduction. No agenda, no pressure — just two educators discovering what they could build together.
"We're tired of it too — the connection collecting, the feed scrolling, the networks that never lead anywhere. Cadre is the opposite."
Connections arrive at a human pace — a routine, not another inbox to manage.
Matching works quietly behind the scenes. The relationship is entirely yours.
Every connection exists to create outcomes for students — not follower counts.
We ask for thirty minutes of your time, not thousands of dollars.
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.
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.
founding faculty members, recruited through personal networks and peer referral
global corridors to start — e.g. North America ↔ Europe ↔ Latin America
for founding members — free matching, first introductions, and a voice in shaping the platform
The team behind NexGen Careers — designing work-based learning experiences since 2011, online and on the ground in New York, Cape Town, Barcelona, Lisbon and Dublin.
Co-founder of NexGen Careers. 15 years designing international work-based learning experiences.
Co-founder of NexGen Careers, Barcelona. Learning experience designer and facilitator across Europe.
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.