When Johari Barrientos-Murray joined the 2025 AFS Global STEM Academies program, she already had a passion for sustainability and climate…
From our first 30 participants in 1946 to more than 8,000 exchange participants in 2026, AFS has grown a global…
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When Abhinav Agarwal, a high school student from Rajasthan, India, received a full scholarship to the AFS Global STEM Academies in…
In 1993, at 17 years old, Luca Parmitano left Catania, Sicily, for a year of study in Mission Viejo, California.…
In the small coastal city of Falkenberg, in Sweden’s Halland county, Anne-Marie and Karl-Gustav Ohlson raised three daughters. But over…
Cameron Chisholm turned 18 somewhere over the Atlantic. He landed in Slovakia on his birthday, in August 1998, a teenager…
How CUNEF Universidad multiplies the impact of university exchanges through the Global Competence Certificate. This year, more than 350…