AFS Intercultural Programs has elected Amalie Ferdinand (Denmark) as new Chair of the Board of Trustees, and Makiko Haraga (Japan) as the Vice-Chair. They will bring in their extensive experience…
Virtual exchanges have a meaningful immediate impact on the development of global competence among high-school aged youth around the world, according to the latest study by AFS Intercultural Programs. The…
The first ever AFS Staff Learning Week (October 25-29, 2021) was an exciting and productive milestone for our global team. Over the course of 5 days, 400 AFS staff from 50…
Global citizenship is a power skill that helps people work across national borders and cultural differences to solve problems. While the OECD states that, “concerted and comprehensive efforts should be…
Virtual exchanges are changing the education landscape and becoming a rapidly growing educational practice. They enable meaningful encounters to create a deep impact of intercultural exchange, combined with the broad…
How can we create sustainable solutions for a more just and peaceful world? The 2021 AFS Global Ideathon gathered 350 people from 70 countries and 16 time zones to tackle…
The pandemic has catapulted the use of virtual education and exchange to the mainstream. But do virtual exchanges really work? Relatively little research has been done in this emerging area,…
More than 5,000 high school students from 50+ countries will have started their AFS exchange program by mid-October 2021. In addition, AFS virtual educational offers are on track to reach…
The United Nations identified five “megatrends” that will shape our world over the course of this century: climate change and nature degradation, inequalities, urbanization, rapid population changes and technological revolution.…