Visit our Help Centre to learn about Breaking Barriers.
Before starting, please review the program's Participation Agreement to ensure successful participation.
1. If eligible, create an account with Riipen as an Employer with the same email you used in the eligibility form. If you already have an account, sign in.
2. Apply for a portal pass with Breaking Barriers with TELUS Friendly Future Foundation and Riipen.
3. Click on the experience that you would like to participate in: Breaking Barriers 2025 - Health, Breaking Barriers 2025 - Computer Science, or Breaking Barriers 2025 - General Communications, and hit “Request match”. Each experience is tailored to the types of project offered. For example, students in the Computer Science experience will be looking for tech-focused projects.
4. Complete company verification.
See more details about what you will need to verify here: Employer Verification
5. Once verified, click "Request match" and create or select an existing project that you’re looking to post for Breaking Barriers student applications. Each company can match 2 projects, and each project can have up to 3 students.
For guidance on creating a project, refer to Creating a project.
You will be asked a series of match request questions as part of the process. These are required to complete the match request.
6. Sign the agreements and accept the match request on your end.
7. Your project will either be approved by us within 5 business days, or you may be asked to make some adjustments.
8. Once approved by our team, your project will be open to student applications. If a student applies to your project, it will appear on your dashboard.
9. Review applications and either accept or decline using the ✔ or X beside each application.
NOTE: Students can apply to a maximum of 4 projects at a time. To help them explore other opportunities if your project isn’t the right fit, we encourage you to accept or decline applicants as promptly as possible.