The $20,000 SOM Travel Fellowship offers an applicant the opportunity to expand their professional education beyond the classroom through the observation of buildings, design, culture and history that can only be achieved through travel.
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The Rose Nolan Memorial Scholarship was established to recognize Aboriginal First Nation women who are achieving their educational and training goals while maintaining strong community involvement.
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Internship program based in Nairobi Kenya. The program is best suited for aspiring medical students, pre-med, sophomore and elective students. Interested participants should have a keen interest in the medical/health profession and be actively working tow ...
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The Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships aim to activate a dynamic community of young global leaders across Canada and the Commonwealth to create lasting impacts both at home and abroad through cross-cultural exchanges encompassing int ...
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The Alexia Foundation offers production grants to students and professional photographers to give them the financial ability to produce substantial stories that drive change in the effort to make the world a better place. Students also get scholarship opp ...
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This fund provides one scholarship, annually, for study abroad experiences through accredited, post high school, educational institutions.
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The Margarian Scholarship is aimed at rewarding a select number of deserving students for their academic and personal achievements.
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For students enrolled in SIT programs with environmental, post-conflict transformation, or sustainable development themes.
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Oikos is an association engaged in the protection of the environment and the promotion of voluntary service. Projects include conservation projects, but recently Oikos has expanded its focus to include humanitarian programmes as well.
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Madventurer community projects focus on building basic infrastructure to assist local community development. Their key focus is youth development and the provision and improvement of health, education and sanitation facilities such as schools, clinics, to ...
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We offer internationally recognized TEFL courses in English Language Teaching to both young learners and adults. These courses are undertaken via Online Learning. As a new comer to this academic field, you may wonder what TEFL stands for. It is Teaching E ...
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UNESCO offers a broad range of work opportunities. Posts in the Organization are mainly filled by people in occupations linked to the Organization
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Rustic Pathways enriches the lives of its students and staff, benefits the parts of the world it serves and builds cultural bridges that lead to greater global understanding and cooperation. We are a 30-year global leader in providing superior quality com ...
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Established in honor of AIA Honorary President Jane Waldbaum, this scholarship is intended to help students who are planning to participate in archaeological field work for the first time.
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For Canadian and other non-American participants, Centre for Cultural Interchange (CCI) arranges academic year high school, as well as a variety of programmes for students and adults wishing to live and/or work in the US for a short period of time. For Am ...
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Elective Africa provides healthcare and pre-health students and volunteers an opportunity to undertake projects in Healthcare Electives, Pre-Health Shadowing, Teaching, childcare and conservation. The customized placements are well crafted to suit one’s s ...
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The GPS program will enable this distinctive and integral NYU experience to be made available to students who otherwise might have been precluded because of financial constraints.
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For Colorado residents attending Colorado State University (CSU), Semester at Sea Affiliate scholarships are awarded on ISE’s behalf by the Office of International Programs (OIP) at CSU.
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$7,000 to $25,000 for events, and up to $50,000 for other outreach activities; higher amounts for outreach activities may be considered if well justified
Duration 1 year
Application deadlines February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1
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Combine conservation projects with community development and adventure programmes and make a Gap Year, Career Break or Summer Holiday a Life Changing experience! Placement types include marine conservation, various teaching and community projects. Project ...
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When I think back on it, my first experience volunteering overseas kind of sucked. It's a long story, but the short version is that I showed up in Nepal thinking that I was going to save the world and found out that really I was on an adventure tour posing as a volunteer programme.
Landing an international internship takes initiative—but in a global economy, the payoff is huge.
Parenting abroad and across the ocean requires strong family communication.
An unofficial ranking systems of the best places to teach English in Asia.
My advice for high school graduates about to head out on their gap year adventures.
Faced with insurmountable poverty, there's little that many Nepalis can do to elevate themselves. Against the odds, Vishu Sijali is trying to change that.
Bill Frederick kicks off Verge Magazine's new Travel Ethics column with a look at the counterpoint of competing values.