STUDY ABROAD
You want to study at a Highschool or a university in the USA/Germany?There are many possibilities and exchange programs! You can leave when you are in Highschool or studying at the university; or maybe you just want to do an internship. The following links should help and give you the needed background information:
Highschool exchange or Internship:
Youth for Understanding:www.yfu.de
AFS Interkulturelle Begegnungen:
www.afs.de
GIVE:
http://www.give-highschool.de
Partnership International:
http://www.partnership.de
Experiment:
http://www.experiment-ev.de/site/index.php
University:
DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst:www.daad.de
International Office University of Bremen:
http://www.io.uni-bremen.de
Education USA:
www.educationusa.de
The international Office of the University of Bremen:
http://www.io.uni-bremen.de
There are also all kinds of scholarships; the links listed above contain a lot informations about the possibilities.
Here are some programmes with which you can go to the States with a stipend.
InWEnt's Programmes for young Germans to the USA:
http://www.inwent.org
But one scholarship program we would like to highlight for you:
Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange
The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange consists of three separate programs paid for by the United States Congress and the German Bundestag. They are a high school exchange program, a young professional (internship) exchange program, and vocational internship program for graduation seniors.The high school exchange program offers a scholarship for American students to study abroad in Germany for a year. The young professional exchange includes a a full year scholarship (and living stipend) two month welcome seminar, a semester at a German university and a five month German speaking internship. The vocational internship consists of a year in Germany living with a host family, participating a school or training program, and getting hands-on internship work experience at a German company.
The program is for motivated students and young people who want to live with a host family and want to immerse themselves in the German lifestyle and culture. Participants gain a critical set of intercultural skills as well as experience what the work and school environment in Germany is like. This program is for adept and open minded young people interested in Germany.
For more information on the program for high school exchange, visit http://www.usagermanyscholarship.org
The contact information is different depending on what region of the United States you live in.
The program for young professionals (for ages 18 to 24) is administered by:
CDS International, 871 United Nations Plaza, 15th Floor,
New York, NY 10017. Telephone: 212-497-3500.
Web Site: www.cdsintl.org/cbyx
Deadline 12/1
The vocational high school program for graduating seniors is administered by:
Nacel Open Door, Inc., 1536 Hewitt Avenue, Box 268, Saint
Paul, MN 55104. Telephone: 1-800-622-3553,
Web Site: www.nacelopendoor.org
Deadline 1/31
Au Pair
One way to experience Germany (and naturally Bremen) is to be an Au Pair! You can receive a flight paid in full and even money while you learn German and have the experience of a lifetime taking care of children of a German family. Here are links, where you can get more information about these programs.www.greataupair.com
http://exchanges.state.gov/jexchanges/programs/aupair.html
www.au-pair-job.de
Network for Aupair-Agencies