Work Abroad Exchange Programs

Some of these programs will assist you in getting work permits and will provide information to help your job search. Others will actually place you in a particular position beforehand. The fees for services vary from program to program, as do the wages. Generally speaking, you can assume that you will make enough money to cover your expenses; however, it can never hurt to save before you go! Programs usually run for a period of a summer or semester, but in some cases, you may be able to obtain a permit to work for up to 18 months. The following organizations can help you if you choose to work abroad through an exchange program:

AIESEC - GT Chapter
E-mail: aiesecga@gatech.edu
AIESEC is an entirely student-run, non-profit organization with university chapters around the world. AIESEC provides meaningful paid internships in 103 countries in business, economics, international affairs, and some engineering disciplines. AIESEC is the world's largest student-run exchange program. The overall aim is to promote international and cultural understanding through the student work exchange program.
IAESTE - GT Chapter
E-mail: iaeste@gatech.edu
IAESTE is an international network that coordinates on-the-job training for students in most engineering fields and some science fields in approximately 40 countries each year. To participate in IAESTE you must be a junior or higher, enrolled full-time at an accredited US college or university and between the ages of 19-30. An IAESTE traineeship is a paid internship abroad. Positions are available in most areas. Most placements are from 8-12 weeks during the summer. For more information, use the contact information listed above or check out IAESTE or the Georgia Tech IAESTE Chapter.
American Scandinavian Foundation (ASF)
58 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
E-mail: info@amscan.org
Phone: (212) 879-9779
Gain work experience in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Opportunities are available to full-time students who are enrolled in engineering, computer science, and some science disciplines. In addition, opportunities are available to students who are interested in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. No knowledge of foreign language is necessary. Application deadlines vary for each program. Obtain applications and further information from ASF.
Anglo American Educational Services of London
Internship Program in London
22 Bloomsbury SquareBloomsbury, United Kingdom
Email: sjkendziorski@earthlink.net
London, as the financial capital and most culturally diverse city in Europe, provides the ideal location for internships in a wide range of professional fields. The experiential learning opportunities available in London range from multi-national corporate entities, the world's leading financial institutions to small and medium sized enterprises, and include media, arts, political, scientific, public sector and voluntary organizations. The internships can accommodate almost every academic discipline. Full-time internships are available for semester length and 10 weeks in the summer. Anglo American provides placement, supervision and apartment accommodations.

www.angloamerican.uk.com
BUNAC
P.O. Box 430
Southbury, CT 06488
E-mail: info@bunausa.org
Phone: (203) 264-0901
Live and work in Britain for up to 6 months, Ireland for up to 4 months, Canada for up to 6 months, Australia for up to 4 months, or in New Zealand for up to 1 year. Participation in the BUNAC program is open to full-time students and graduating seniors. Fees vary from program to program. Call 1-800-GO-BUNAC or check out BUNAC to get up-to-date information.
CDS Internship Programs
871 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017-1814
E-mail: info@cdsintl.org
Phone: (212) 497-3500
Fax: (212) 497-3535
CDS International is a nonprofit organization that fosters intercultural understanding through international exchange and professional development programs in Germany, the U.S., Spain, Argentina, and Russia. Our program offerings include internships abroad and prestigious professional fellowships. We strongly believe that professional experience abroad helps students and recent graduates enhance their language skills, gain invaluable intercultural experience, and build their careers. We annually serve over 2,700 participants from 80 countries. Visit CDS’ website for more program information: www.cdsintl.org
Child Family Health International
995 Market Street
Suite 1104
San Francisco, CA, 94103, USA
Phone: (415) 957-9000
Child Family Health International is a 15 year old non profit organization offering socially responsible global health electives for students of the health sciences. Travel to Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Nicaragua or South Africa to immerse yourself in new cultural contexts and to learn about the way healthcare is practiced and experienced worldwide. CFHI’s global health electives are 4 to 8 weeks long and run every month of the year. Electives include clinical rotations with local preceptors in a variety of settings each day during the week. Housing is with local home-stay families, or, in some cases, guest houses where home-stay families are not available. Language instruction is included (including Medical Spanish instruction) in all Spanish-speaking programs. Academic credit can be arranged with the cooperation of your university or school. CFHI has many fundraising resources available to assist you in raising your program fees (click here to quickly create your own CFHI fundraising web page: http://firstgiving.com/cfhistudentprograms).

For more information and to apply, please go to the international programs area at: www.cfhi.org or contact students@cfhi.org.
Center for Cultural Interchange
712 N. Wells St, 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60654
Tel: 312-944-2544
Toll Free: 888-227-6231
Fax: 312-944-0383
www.cci-exchange.com
info@cci-exchange.com
CCI is a nonprofit international exchange organization dedicated to promoting cultural understanding, academic development, environmental consciousness, and world peace. We offer a variety of short-term programs abroad including Greenheart Volunteer Projects and Internships for college students and adults in over 30 countries worldwide. The majority of our programs focus on the homestay experience allowing the student to learn even more about the culture and also increase language proficiency. Our internships are 1-4 months in length providing the student with professional experience in their area of study. As a Greenheart Volunteer, students can help protect the environment, build stronger communities and work to increase awareness of global environmental and humanitarian issues. Projects run year-round for 2-12 weeks in length. Visit our website at www.cci-exchange.com or contact us at 888-227-6231 for specific destinations and program details.
Connect-123 Study and Internship Programs
email: info@connect-123.com
Connect-123 Study and Internship Programs facilitates high experiential-value internships and learning opportunities in Cape Town, South Africa. Opportunities include internships and community service work in engineering, business consulting, economic development, human rights, and many other fields. Through our extensive network of local for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, we can tailor internships for students according to their specific career goals. We have worked with students from over 130 universities to date and have over 250 students participating on our programs annually. For all programs, we provide substantial local support, including relatively high-end, secure housing, logistics support, and regular social programs (ranging from cultural tours to community service activities). We also advise program participants prior to departure and provide ongoing support and guidance once in Cape Town, from academic advice and mentoring to hands-on help in case of an emergency. For additional information, please visit our website at www.connect-123.com and for testimonials, please see: www.connect-123.com/testimonials
EMGIP - Bundestag Internship
DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service
871 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
E-mail: schenkl@daad.org
Phone: (212) 758-3223
Fax: (212) 755-5780
EMGIP (Emigre Memorial German Internship Program) offers internship opportunities for US and Canadian students in the German parliament, the Bundestag. The internships are two months long in positions matching the student's interest and experience. Interns are placed with their preferred Fraktion, Ausschuss, with individual members of the Bundestag and their offices. In addition to contributing to the respective offices, interns have the opportunity to study legislative and administrative procedures in the German parliament. For more information, visit the website.
French Cultural Services
French Embassy, Cultural Service Internship Program
4101 Reservoir Road
Washington, D.C. 20007
Phone: (202) 944-6011
The French Culture Services website contains links to information on various work programs in France. In addition, the service distributes a free guide about employment in France for students, including work regulations, job possibilities and additional references.
Globalplacement
de Ruyterkade 106
1011 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
0031- (0)20 330 5882
www.globalplacement.com

Globalplacement is an online mediator for placements and graduation assignments where students and companies throughout the world can easily find each other in their own language. This is possible because the entire website, including the account of students and companies, is available in 12 languages and expanding. We have around 2,000 internships worldwide.
Going Global
The ultimate international job seeker's guide! This massive research tool contains more than 10,000 resources for finding employment abroad. You will need to log in using your GT ID to use this service. Going Global gives you access to jobs and internships abroad as well as Country Guides for select countries to help find you a work abroad opportunity!
i-to-i Meaningful Travel
190 East 9 th Ave.
Suite 350
Denver , CO 80203
800 985 4864

With administrative offices in the U.K., U.S., and Ireland (and a global staff of 80+), i-to-i provides life-changing work and travel projects for people who want to make a positive difference around the world. Destinations exist across Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia, and provide unique and fulfilling assignments. So whether you're looking for a volunteer travel experience, unique internship, cultural tour, Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) course or well-paid teaching job abroad, you're in the right place. www.MeaningfulTravel.com
Interexchange
161 Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10013
E-mail: Info@interexchange.org
Phone: (212) 924-0446
Interchange offers a wide range of overseas work placements in Australia, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, South Africa, and Spain. Placements include au pair positions, internships, and teaching English.
Research Internships in Science & Engineering (RISE)
DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service
Gabriele Knieps
Nordamerikareferat
Kennedyallee 50
53175 Bonn
E-mail: knieps@daad.de
Phone: +49 (0)228/882- 271
Fax: +49 (0)228/882- 551
RISE gives students in the fields of Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geology and Physics the chance to spend a summer working with German doctoral students on serious research projects. The doctoral students help integrate the undergraduate directly into the lab work and serve as personal and professional mentors. All participants receive stipends from DAAD to help cover living expenses, and the partner universities and research institutions provide housing assistance.
StudyAbroad.com
1350 Edgmont Avenue, Suite #1200,
University Technology Park II
Chester, PA 19013 USA
Phone: 484-766-2900
StudyAbroad.com is the Internet's leading source of information on educational opportunities for students to study in other countries. It is a comprehensive directory of study abroad programs, including summer study abroad, internship, service learning and volunteer abroad programs, intensive language programs and more, all organized by subject or country or city. International education support through our study abroad handbook provides a guide to education abroad, health and safety and study abroad scholarship/financial aid information. http://www.StudyAbroad.com
Transatlantic Program
German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest
401 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 2525
Chicago, IL 60611-4212
E-mail: transatlanticprogram@gaccom.org
Phone: (312)494-2174
Transatlantic Program offers 25 internships with companies in Germany each summer. The program includes one week of pre-internship travel and a two to six month internship. Some of the internships are paid internships while others will include a stipend. The program is open to undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of engineering, economics, marketing, finance, business, and computer science. To participate you must have at least 2 years of college-level German.
UROP International
email: urop@rwth-aachen.de
UROP, the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, fosters research partnerships betweem qualified undergraduate students from US and Canadian universities and professional researchers at RWTH Aachen University.

RWTH Aachen University is one of the top German universities and among the world's leading educational institutions of science and engineering. In the university's research facilities or labs, students conduct their own independent research project for a period of eight to ten weeks, becoming an integral part of the research team and being mentored by academic staff. Additional program components include continuous German language classes, an intercultural training as well as research-related field trips and leisure activities. Please visit our website for the current program dates. Application deadline are typically in January. For more information about UROP or to apply, please visit the university's website and click 'project entry form for students' to apply. Or send an email to urop@rwth-aachen.de
USA-Interns Program
Steuben-Schurz-Gesellschaft e.V.
Lange Strasse 25-27
60598 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
USA-Interns Program - Cross the Atlantic!
The Steuben-Schurz-Gesellschaft e.V. (SSG), Germany’s oldest German-American friendship organization, has been dedicated to promoting cultural understanding between the peoples of Germany and the United States for nearly 60 years. In 1999, in an effort to strengthen the relations between the youths of both countries, the SSG established the USA-Interns program, an internship exchange program that provides German and American university students with the opportunity to work and live abroad, thus allowing them to gain first-hand insights into the culture, history and daily life of the guest country. The SSG has acquired the support of numerous organizations, institutions, companies and individuals on both sides of the Atlantic willing to provide foreign students with internship opportunities. The positions cover a broad range of fields including business, international relations, engineering, PR, media, the natural sciences and the humanities in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. The internships typically last 2-3 months and take place during the summer. In some instances internships during the academic year are available. The level of the tasks to be completed depends upon how advanced the student is in his/her studies and their language abilities. Our participating companies believe as strongly in cultural exchange as we do and are enthusiastic about providing you with a unique and personal experience. If you are interested in this program, make an appointment with the Assistant Director of the Work Abroad Program, Debbie Gulick at debbie.gulick@dopp.gatech.edu.
Website at: www.usa-interns.org or www.steuben-schurz.org
U.S. Department Of State
The US Department of State has a large internship program with a formal application process. The application deadline for their summer internships is generally in early November.
World Endeavors
2518 29 th Ave S
Minneapolis , MN 55406, USA
612.729.3400

World Endeavors is a US-based organization that provides unique and fulfilling opportunities abroad. We offer volunteer, study, and intern programs in numerous locations around the world. A combination of several factors makes our programs unique:
- Optimal locations
- High quality content
- Cross-cultural learning opportunities
- Affordable fees
We offer internships in a variety of fields within the countries of England, Spain, Italy, Ecuador, Nepal and Brazil. For more information visit our Website at: www.worldendeavors.com