The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted or cut short intercultural learning for over 5 million study abroad participants and international students. The already challenging process of returning home after an international…
AFS helps thousands of students continue building global competence using a new online education platform Over 5,800 high school students in 50+ countries whose study abroad programs were abruptly cut…
The 2020 AFS Global Conference is set to host the worldwide launch of the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 Global Competence Assessment, and explore their…
I. Some students learn, some don’t: Churchill, R. (1958). The Student Abroad. The Antioch Review. Vol 18, #4, pp.447-454. Kinginger, C. (2008). Language learning in study abroad: Case studies of…
AFS Intercultural Programs (AFS) and the European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL) together with the University of Hull and four other universities in Europe have been awarded a Erasmus+ research…
A new study from Purdue University confirms that university students who received group mentoring through the AFS Global Competence Certificate Program (GCC) during their semester abroad improved their intercultural competence…
2019 AFS Global Conference on Active Global Citizenship—and How to Educate for It (9-11 October 2019 in Montreal, Canada) featured a revealing panel discussion, “A Hard Look at the State…
What will it take to provide young changemakers with the global skills they need to make the world a better place? The 2019 AFS Global Conference on Active Global Citizenship—and How…
AFS One Classroom Initiative conducted virtual exchanges of schools in China with schools in Brazil and Czech Republic throughout June. Eighty students and teachers participated in meaningful cross-border classroom-to-classroom dialoguediscussing…