AFS Partners with BP to Launch BP Global STEM Academies
300 students will receive scholarships to participate in programs in Brazil, Egypt and the USA NEW YORK, NY (March…
Education
The new power skills: intercultural understanding, global competence and active global citizenship
Keynote Address by Daniel Obst, President and CEO, AFS Intercultural Programs at the AFS Regional Forum on Global Citizenship Education…
Paraiba Secretary of Education sponsors “Gira Mundo” (“Spin the World”) program to bring Brazilian students to Portugal
25 Brazilian students have received full scholarships to spend one semester studying abroad in Portugal, improving their global competence and…
Why students worldwide need global competence
At the 9th Educational Quality Forum (IX Foro de Calidad Educativa), held by Educar 2050, an Argentinean organization focused on…
AFS welcomes the new Global Competence Framework
by Daniel Obst, President and CEO of AFS Intercultural Programs Today the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched…
Experts agree: Teachers and schools need more intercultural learning
Experts, researchers, and educators from Harvard and other universities from around the world, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for…
AFS fosters intercultural competence through 5 free webinars
Digital and online learning are among the key ways to make intercultural education more inclusive and available to diverse groups…
We educate to change the world
At the second regional AFS forum in the Caribbean, “Education and Global Citizenship: Developing Essential Competences for the 21st Century,”…
Sentio Global Education Network and Purdue University enter three-year partnership to advance global competence education
A new collaboration between Sentio Global Education Network, a not-for-profit subsidiary of AFS Intercultural Programs, and Purdue University will advance…