In this article, you will learn: How the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development defines global competence, How global competence can be measured and what can be done with the…
AFS Intercultural Programs is proud to announce a new partnership between Sentio, Global Education Network, an AFS subsidiary, that provides intercultural learning opportunities to young adults, and Languages Canada, Canada’s…
NEW YORK, N.Y. (February 28, 2017) – AFS Intercultural Programs and the AFS Asia-Pacific Initiative (AAI) with the support of UNESCO New Delhi Office will convene the 3rd Annual AFS…
To my best understanding, friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between two people. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. I met a…
Being an exchange student doesn’t only expose you to the culture of your host country, but also to the cultures of other exchange students who become your friends. I’ve been…
AFS Intercultural Programs, a global network of 60 member organizations with nearly 50,000 volunteers and programs in 99 countries, is deeply concerned about the impact of the January 2017 U.S.…
It took me just a couple of weeks to get to know nice people in my school and start hanging out with them. Being so different than others made them…
When I first arrived, before school started, I didn’t have any friends and I couldn’t speak Italian. However, when school started I met my classmates and we became friends. At…
Marcel Mauss, a French sociologist, wrote an essay in 1925 titled The Gift, which analyzed the role that exchange plays in building social relationships. Mauss found that despite the assumption…