Online Resources

Cultural Adjustment

• Coghill & Beery International are world-wide specialists in building international business teams and cross-cultural competencies. They offer international leadership development, global teambuilding, executive coaching and pre-departure coaching for expatriating individuals and project teams. To find out more about group and one-to-one coaching on cultural issues, including online support via their cross-cultural assessment tool Argonaut, contact: argonaut@coghillbeery.com
• www.cultureactive.com- This is one of the best web-based global cultural databases, featuring over 40 countries, designed for globetrotting executives and others interested in foreign cultures. You’ll find extensive country profiles that cover a diversity of cultural topics like history and geography, concepts of space and time, and leadership styles and negotiating. You can even find out your own personal cultural profile. To sign up for access to this powerful tool, see their website.
• www.expatexpert.com – Robin Pascoe, writer and expat, designed her site to help expat spouses and families adjust to living abroad and then readjust to coming home again. Her online articles are fabulous and witty. You can sign up for her newsletter and email her for advice about moving overseas.
• www.expatica.com – English-language news and information source for expatriates living in, working in or moving to the Netherlands (Holland), Germany, France, Belgium or Spain. Expatica publishes ten websites plus a printed HR newsletter and four, country-oriented Survival Guides.
• www.expatinterviews.com – Here you can find interviews from expats living around the world.
• www.vitalissues-germany.com – A community resource site, as well as the official website for the book with the same name – VITAL ISSUES: How to Survive Officialdom While Living in Germany. Vital Issues is a must for English-speaking residents living in Germany. The book will offer a comprehensive, understandable explanation of German customs, traditions, and laws affecting marriage, job-hunting, renting, and buying of property, divorce, retirement, senior citizens and inheritance, plus much more.

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Educational Travel

• www.goabroad.com or www.adventuretravelabroad.com – Adventure Travel Abroad, an affiliate of GoAbroad.com, makes it easy to find the best travel adventures. Search by country or type of trip (climbing, hiking, rain forest tour).
• www.shawguides.com – Shaw Guides features an online database of more than forty-three hundred sponsors of learning vacations and creative career programs throughout the world, including arts and crafts workshops, cultural travel, cooking schools for professionals and hobbyists, golf schools and camps, photography, film and new media schools and workshops, language vacations, writers’ conferences and workshops, tennis schools and camps, and high-performance workshops.
• www.specialtytravel.com – The Specialty Travel Index is the number-one source for adventure and special interest vacations worldwide. You can search by geographic destination, by tour operator (with over six hundred listed), or by activity (such as anthropology, hiking, volcano tours, yoga programs).
• www.transitionsabroad.com – Transitions Abroad Publishing contains travel program listings by country or region for teens, adults, seniors, and the disabled, as well as sites for immersion and responsible travel.

Adventure Travels

• www.adventurequest.com – Adventure Quest offers fourteen hundred adventure tours, including animal treks, cultural tours, nature viewing, language learning, cooking schools, houseboat voyages, and more.
• www.arcticodysseys.com – Arctic Odysseys provides high-quality travel experiences in the Arctic regions of Canada, Greenland, Siberia, and China as well as in Antarctica.
• www.backroads.com – Backroads has over 142 trips to 101 destinations worldwide focusing on biking, walking, cross-country skiing, golf, multisport vacations, and even cooking classes.
• www.gorptravel.com – For active and adventurous travel, search GORP Travel’s activity index, which includes multisport vacations, adventure cruises, wildlife tours, and more.
• www.nauiww.org – NAUI (National Association of Underwater Instructors) lists scuba-diving jobs worldwide on their Web site, along with course information and international locations.
• www.padi.com – PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) Worldwide.
  Contact PADI for information on Project AWARE, PADI educational programs, and about becoming a certified scuba diver.

Artistic Workshops

• www.apicius.it – The Apicius Institute in Italy offers professional programs in hospitality management, professional wine expertise, and the culinary arts. Each program includes internships in local restaurants, wineries, or hotels.
• www.artguat.org – Art Workshops in Guatemala for artists and wanna-be artists, offered on the following subjects: ceramics and pottery, decorative arts, drawing, basketry, bookmaking, folk art, garden design, painting, photography, film, video, precious gems, sculpture, and wood.
• www.ARTw.org – International Art Landscape-Painting Workshops are designed for beginning hobbyists as well as aspiring professionals where you’ll learn landscape-painting techniques from an internationally acclaimed artist, get art history lessons, and take painting excursions to inspiring museums, castles, gardens, and small towns.
• www.cordonbleu.net – Le Cordon Bleu, Inc.is a world-famous culinary school where you can earn a bachelor’s degree in restaurant management or cooking certifications such as the Cordon Bleu Diploma or Grand Diplome.
• www.pietro.net – At La Meridiana, internationally recognized ceramic artists lead one- and two-week ceramic, pottery, and sculpture seminars and workshops for beginners to advanced levels. Workshop courses range from throwing to sculpture.

Cultural, Environmental, and Nature Travel

• www.ecotourism.org – The International EcoTourism Society (TIES), a membership organization for ecotourism professionals, has resources to help raise awareness about ecotourism, connect travelers with TIES-member tour operators and ecolodges, and encourage potential members to join ecotravel organizations and networks.
• www.farhorizon.com – Far Horizons Archaeological & Cultural Trips participants meet privately with renowned experts and local inhabitants in each destination, and dine on the local delicacies, drink traditional beverages, learn a few words of the language, and travel to areas rarely visited by tourists.
• www.ietravel.com – International Expeditions, Inc, an ecotourism and conservation organization, is a world leader in nature travel, including expedition voyages.
• www.journeys-intl.com – Journeys International, Inc.is an ecotourism agency that offers worldwide exploratory, family, and specialty travel, including nature and culture explorations to forty-five countries.
• www.mythsandmountains.com – Myths and Mountains designs group itineraries based on five educational themes: cultures and crafts, religion and holy sites, wildlife and the environment, learning journeys, and folk medicine and traditional healing.
• www.naturequesttours.com – NatureQuest’s activities include sea kayaking, canoeing, hiking, trekking, wilderness camping, expedition cruises, white-water rafting, horseback riding, wildlife encounters, whale watching, mountain biking, and safaris.

Disabled Travelers

• airconsumer.ost.dot.gov/publications/horizons.htm – The New Horizons Web site offers information for air travelers with disabilities, including information on planning your trip, getting on and off the plane, and compliance procedures.
• www.miusa.org – Mobility International USA (MIUSA) is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization with the mission to empower people with disabilities around the world through international exchange, information, technical assistance, and training. International exchanges for youths and adults concentrate on leadership training, community service, cross-cultural experiential learning, and advocacy for the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities.
• www.miusa.org/ncde – The National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange (NCDE) is here to assist anyone who has ever thought about teaching, studying, or volunteering overseas, or who has questions about how to make programs more accessible to people with disabilities,

Finding Accomodations

• www.homelink.org or www.swapnow.com – HomeLink International is the world’s largest home-exchange organization with over fifty years of matching home-exchange partners around the world.
• www.iyhf.org or www.hiayh.org – Hostelling International (or Youth Hostelling International) is a network of forty-five hundred hostels in over sixty countries. Hostels have rooms for individuals, families, and groups.

Independent Travel

• www.airtreks.com – On Airtreks.com you can create your own customized trip to multiple continents or take advantage of special offers to Circle-Pacific, Circle-Atlantic, or Circle-Asia, all for a little more than the price of just one international ticket.

Homestays

• www.chinet.org – Cultural Homestay International (CHI) arranges outbound group homestays for people ages thirteen and up. CHI also offers academic-year and semester study-abroad programs, career exploration “job shadowing,” total immersion language classes, and au-pair stays abroad.
• www.servas.org – United States SERVAS, Inc. offers travelers the opportunity to meet with people of other cultures and to share in their daily life. Hosts can offer to accommodate someone for two nights or serve as a day host and guide.
• www.aihtravel.com/homestays/pages/despriai.htm – Through American International Homestays (AIH), you can expect your English-speaking hosts to provide a private room, a home-cooked breakfast and dinner, and a guided tour. AIH can also arrange customized and group trips, transportation, guided tours, translators, and language study.

Language Vacations

• 3ponts.edu – École des Trois Ponts offers a unique opportunity to live in the eighteenth-century Château de Matel while taking French-language or French-cooking courses.
• www.berlitz.com – Berlitz Study Abroad, one of the most renowned language schools in the world, offers summer study-abroad language-immersion programs in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
• www.centralamerica.com/cr/school/conversa.htm – At Centro Linguistico Conversa, students are placed in small groups of four or less and learn Spanish for up to five hours per day. Students can either stay with a host family, in an on-campus lodge, or in an on-campus family suite.
• www.langlink.com – Language Link, Inc., a program of the Better Business Bureau, is dedicated to offering high-quality, complete-immersion Spanish language programs in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Spain, in addition to special courses for teens and executives.
• www.linguaserviceworldwide.com – Lingua Service Worldwide is an independent agency focusing on full-immersion, intensive language vacations for one to thirty-six weeks year-round.

Socially Responsible Travel

• www.augsburg.edu/global – Education Travel Seminar to Two-Thirds World with the Center for Global Education, recognized for its work in experiential, intercultural, and educational travel opportunities to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and southern Africa.
• www.crossculturalsolutions.org – In its Field Insight Programs, Cross Cultural Solutions offers a unique look inside a culture through meetings with tribal chiefs, social pioneers, traditional healers, and women’s groups, or by visiting shantytowns, places of worship, and schools.
• www.globalexchange.org/tours – Global Exchange/Reality Tours is a nonprofit research and educational organization focused on economic, political, environmental, and social justice worldwide. Reality tours are socially responsible and educational study trips, fact-finding missions, activist delegations, and custom trips for academic, business, and professional groups.

Special Travel: Adults Over Fifty And The Disabled

• www.elderhostel.org – Elderhostel offers short-term educational travel opportunities, specifically designed for adults age fifty-five and older.
• www.eldertreks.com – Eldertreks is the world’s first adventure travel company for people over fifty. The goal of the program is to promote genuine, noncommercial encounters with local people and nature’s wonders.

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Expat Websites

• www.aafsw.com – The Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide is a non-profit organization that has been representing Foreign Service spouses, employees and retirees since 1960 and provides loads of practical information for the expatriate.
• www.alloexpat.com – Enjoy Allo’ Expat information & communities throughout the five continents.
• www.anamericanabroad.com – The site endorses and recommends traveling outside the US many times in your lifetime. They promote travel abroad, educate Americans within the US about the outside world, host a community area for expatriate Americans, promote respectable products and services, and offer time-saving information available to the expatriate.
• www.britishexpats.com – A resource for British expats around the world. Immigration and general discussion forums, articles, blogs, chat room, photo gallery and more.
• www.canuckabroad.com – The site caters to the Canadian expatriate, but provides information and resources – including a forum – which are equally useful to Americans and other expatriates.
• www.contactexpats.com – Contact expats worldwide through our network.
• www.easyexpat.com – Easy Expat provides practical and up-to-date information for expatriates on subjects such as careers and jobs overseas, moving abroad, taxes, accommodations, healthcare, international schools, childcare, repatriation, and social life.
• www.ediplomat.com – Global Portal for Diplomats.
• www.expat-advisory.com – A global site listing over 200 countries. Users can promote their business, events and general awareness via listings and articles such as reviews or interviews.
• www.expatexchange.com – Expat Exchange is one of the most extensive expatriate sites online, providing a wealth of resources and articles for expatriates worldwide.
• www.expatexpert.com – The home of the wonderful Robin Pascoe, who has written several books for expats and travels the world speaking to expat groups, spouses and international schools about various expatriation issues and challenges. Expat expert provides useful articles and information for the expatriate, resources about going and living abroad, as well as information for returning home.
• www.expatica.com – This Netherlands-based site provides useful resources for those living and working in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, and Belgium; also publishes an online newsletter and the annual Expat Survival Guide with basic information on living abroad.
• www.expatfinder.com  – The Expat Search Engine: ExpatFinder is a search engine for people preparing to move or working and living abroad. Search the web, blogs and expat forums on topics including housing, local expat community, serviced apartments, insurance, schools, international property, expatriate banking, international movers, culture shock or anything else you can think of.
• www.expatfocus.com – Global relocation advice for expatriates covering visas, residency, overseas employment, buying property abroad, international schools, offshore finance and more.
• www.expatforums.org – Expat Forums offers a number of forums, and a bulletin board for members to discuss issues and questions related to expatriate life, and share information, ideas, and opinions.
• www.expatinfodesk.com – Specializes in supplying city guides to help expatriates and their families successfully relocate abroad. It also contains a free resources section with general information on moving and working overseas.
• www.expatinterviews.com – Provides interviews with people living outside their home countries. Topics include what motivated them to live abroad, how they generate their income, and what they’ve learned from their experiences.
• www.expatnetwork.com – The Expat Network is an online resource for expatriates living and working abroad; features job board (for registered members) and an expat forum.
• www.expatsreunite.com- Help reunite friends who have lost contact with each other.
• www.expatriates.com – Expatriates.com provides an extensive resource directory, discussion board, etc. for the expatriate.
• www.interexpat.com – Your Local Expatriate Community
• www.geoexpat.com – GeoExpat.com offers expats classifieds, forum, job listings and resources across Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
• www.guardianabroad.co.uk/expat – This is the Guardian’s website for people who live abroad and features interesting articles about expatriate life, practical information, country profiles, games to play and a directory of blogs about living as an expat.
• www.liveabroad.com – Network for Living Abroad is the community for sharing experience and advice for studying, working, volunteering or retiring abroad. Resources include links to other sites pertaining to expatriate life, in-country contacts, employment abroad, volunteer opportunities and more. Articles on specific countries, message board, classified ads and free e-zine.
• www.newcomersclub.com – This site is a worldwide directory of newcomers clubs for the newly arrived expatriate.
• www.outpostexpat.nl – This site provides expatriate resources for relocating Shell employees, but is also useful for expatriates in general.
• overseasdigest.com – Overseas Digest provides resources for living, studying and working abroad; also publishes a weekly online newsletter.
• www.talesmag.com – Tales from a Small Planet is a fine webzine with news, stories, links, excellent message boards, and other resources for travelers and expatriates.
• www.telegraph.co.uk/expat – This site is an online section of the Weekly Telegraph (U.K.) dedicated to expatriate living, with resources, news, articles, and information.
• www.usa.gov/Topics/Americans_Abroad.shtml – This site is part of the U.S. government’s main web portal provides information on formalities and legal aspects of living abroad; a very comprehensive and highly practical web resource for the expatriate.
• www.workingoverseas.com – The BIG Guide to Living and Working Overseas is based on the popular book by Jean-Marc Hachey, Transitions Abroad’s international careers editor. Hachey’s website provides free access to some of the book’s content, with useful advice for those seeking to live and work overseas. Both print and online versions of the book are available for purchase through the website.
• www.workpermit.com – Provides useful information about immigration and work permits for a variety of countries.

Expat Families

• www.crownrelo.com – Crown Relocations – Kids Connection. A story and game for children to learn about moving to a new location.
• www.familylifeabroad.com – Includes informative (often humorous) articles for the expatriate by experienced expatriates on every aspect of daily life abroad, with lots of tips and links throughout
• www.incengine.org/incEngine/?site=figt&art=_2009_conference_highlights – A Nonprofit Educational Organization. Families in Global Transition recognizes the unique challenges that families relocating internationally must endure and strives to increase the success rate of such transitions.
• www.interchangeinstitute.org – Global Baby. Moving with a baby? Check out this new book by Dr. Anne Copeland of the
  Interchange Institute.
• www.travelwithyourkids.com – Everything you need to know about traveling as an expat family.

Expat Women

• www.bpw-international.org – International Federation of Business & Professional Women 
• www.expatwomen.com – ExpatWomen.com is a comprehensive, global website helping women living overseas. The site displays 1,000+ quality content pages, over 1,200 expat women blogs, 250+ readers’ stories, invaluable country resource pages, interviews with successful expat women, loads of motivational articles and an inspirational blog.
• www.meetup.com – Meetup lists group meetings in cities around the world to help bring people with common interests together and promote the development of active local communities. The “Expat American” category lists 165 Meetup groups for the expatriate from around the world.
• www.womenruntheworld.com – A social networking website designed to help women travelers find running partners all over the world. On the site, travelers can find women running partners, running clubs that welcome out-of-town visitors to their group runs, and upcoming races at their destination.
• www.womenwelcomewomen.org.uk  – With Women Welcome Women World Wide, the world belongs to you – a 5W member can make new friends in foreign lands or just around the corner, travel to far-flung places or enjoy having guests in her own home. Travelling with 5W is a safer way. Imagine having a network of friends wherever you go – having another woman to meet you at the airport when you arrive in a new country, for example, is reassuring in a land far from home.

Global Careers

• www.globalcareercenter.org – Global Career Center.com is an international career services company with foreign and domestic jobs, international resume writing services, video conferencing, and great information on work permits, immigration info and visas.
• www.goinglobal.com – Mary Anne Thompson’s Going Global website provides global/country specific career information on 23 countries (including resumes, interviewing advice, employment trends, work permits, cultural tips and cost of living information) for individuals from any nationality interested in pursuing employment outside of their home countries. See Mary Anne’s book The Global Resume and CV Guide in the Global Citizen Bookstore.

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International Students

• www.internationalstudent.com – For students who want to study in the USA, this is an excellent site to help you find the right program. It also includes information on insurance, student loans and scholarships, immigration information and much more.

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International Teaching Positions

• www.tieonline.com – To view job ads for worldwide teaching positions, subscribe to The International Educator. A full subscription entitles you to five issues of The International Educator newspaper, job ads from hundreds of overseas schools, a resume bank where you can post your teaching qualifications, and access to information on recruiting fairs, career development, news articles and more.

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International Women

• www.AnAmericanAbroad.com – The Hub for Americans Abroad – is the trusted online resource for Americans abroad and/or those seeking to go abroad. With news, columns, community forum, reviews, shopping, tourist info, tool & guides, publications, country reports, links, etc., our goal is to promote travel abroad, educate Americans within the US about the outside world, form a community for Americans residing overseas, promote respectable products & services pertaining to your needs and wants, and make life simpler by putting a lot much more under your fingertips to save you time.
• www.awcduesseldorf.org – The AWCD (American Women’s Club of Duesseldorf), FAWCO member (see below) seeks to further the companionship and mutual interests of its multicultural members. We offer support, assistance and over 30 fun activities to our members through a variety of programs and to the community through contributions to recognized charitable organizations, especially those serving the needs of women and children. We are an international group of approximately 370 members. Seventy percent of our members are American or wives of Americans, about fifteen percent are German, and the remainder represent many different nationalities.
• www.expatwomen.com – If you are an expat women, you no doubt have a desire to connect to other expat women who can relate to your life abroad, offer their advice, resources and stories of how to be successful overseas! The place to find all of that and a lot more is at www.expatwomen.com. You’ll find true confessions about expat relationships, read interviews of how women work abroad and have the opportunity to enter really fun contests where you can win free gifts.
• www.expatexpert.com – Especially designed for the needs of expat women, Robin Pascoe’s site is full of helpful information and articles for trailing spouses and accompanying partners. Robin is the expat expert for women and also has 4 wonderful books devoted to helping women adjust to life overseas, raise global nomads, relocate your marriage and readjust to life at home again.
• www.fausa.org – the alumnae arm of the Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas (FAWCO- see below). It’s mission is to facilitate the repatriation experience of its members and to help them maintain their international ties in order to bring about a better understanding between the United States and other nations.
• www.fawco.org – FAWCO, The Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas Inc. is an international network of 74 independent clubs with a combined membership of over 17,000 women in 33 countries worldwide. It serves as a support network for American women living and working abroad and is particularly active in the fields of U.S. citizens’ concerns, education, environmental protection, and women’s and children’s rights. In addition, each individual American Women’s Club in cities around the world offers a plethora of fun activities from baby groups and language lessons to running groups and networking evenings.
• www.forwomentravelingsolo.com – For Women Traveling Solo is the consummate travel website for women, providing in-dept information including safety tips, essential travel links, an interactive Forum and a community of Travel Bloggers.
• www.nafe.com – The National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) is the largest association of businesswomen and female business owners in the USA with 125,000 members. NAFE networks are also in Australia, India, Israel, the Netherlands, Romania, South Africa and Trinidad/Tobago.

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Internships and Volunteer Programs

• www.alliancesabroad.com – For other internship and volunteer opportunities, contact Alliances Abroad, an organization that arranges study-abroad programs, language learning, internships, volunteering, and work abroad for people of all ages.
• www.bunac.org – BUNAC, or the British Universities North America Club, arranges work permits for students and young people to work in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
• www.ciee.org – CIEE administers work, intern, volunteer, study, and travel programs for students ages eighteen and up from many countries. Typical jobs range from casual work in the service or tourist industries to professional work in business. CIEE will arrange your work permit and provide program support to find you a job and accommodations.

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Learning Abroad

• www.aifs.org – American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) is a cultural-exchange organization for high school and college students, faculty, and advisors. AIFS arranges au-pair work, study abroad, and educational trips.
• www.allabroad.com – You can search All Abroad’s extensive database to find study and work programs overseas or drop into their Lounge to get advice or swap stories with other travelers.
• www.alliancesabroad.com – Similar to CIEE and Studyabroad.com, Alliances Abroad arranges study-abroad programs, language learning, internships, volunteering, and work abroad for people of all ages.
• www.ciee.org – Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) is one of the largest international exchange organizations in the world with extensive program offerings: travel, study-abroad, and language programs; internships; summer jobs; volunteer and work abroad; homestays; programs for teachers; and more.
• www.discopenhagen.org – Denmark’s International Study (DIS) Program, affiliated with the University of Copenhagen, offers summer, semester and year study abroad opportunities. Courses are in Humanities, International Business, Architecture and Design, Medical Practice, Child Development, and Arctic Biology (in Iceland). Courses include several European study tours. A 6 week academic internship in London is also available. See their website for course details and costs.
• www.goabroad.com – GoAbroad.com is one of the best online search directories, with thousands of links to international academic programs, study-abroad exchanges, international universities, and worldwide language programs.
• www.iiepassport.org or www.iie.org/en/Students/Tabs/US/IIEPassport – Institute of International Education (IIE) Passport/Living and Learning Abroad, a nonprofit organization, is the largest and most experienced U.S. higher education exchange agency. IIE Passport, an information service of IIE, is designed to quickly match your study-abroad interests with U.S. education abroad programs.
• www.insead.edu – If you want a career in international business, a graduate degree from one of the world’s largest and most recognized graduate business schools could be the key. INSEAD offers one year intensive MBA programs and Executive Education courses in France and Singapore. See their website for information on course content, language training, career opportunities, tuition rates and life at INSEAD.
• www.studyabroaddirectory.com – Studyabroad.com, GoAbroad’s affiliate site, has thousands of listings of study-abroad programs in more than one hundred countries.
• www.transitionsabroad.com – Transitions Abroad is a Web portal for most forms of paid and volunteer work abroad, living, study, and cultural travel overseas. The site offers extensive participant reports, expert articles, and resources for a variety of experiential programs as well as independent travel.

Exchanges and Training Abroad for Professionals

• www.ambassadorprograms.org – People to People arranges scientific, technical, and professional exchanges for groups of ten to forty-five professionals who work in the same field.
• www.cifinternational.com – The Council on International Fellowship’s (CIF) programs are mainly for human services professionals, like social workers, care workers, special schoolteachers, youth workers, and psychologists
• www.rotary.org/en/ServiceAndFellowship/Fellowship/GroupStudyExchange/Pages/ridefault.aspx – Rotary International’s Group Study Exchange program pairs professionals from different countries for the purpose of exchanging vocational information.

International Exchanges For Teachers And Educational Administrators

• www.ceef.ca – Canadian Education Exchange Foundation (CEEF) is a nonprofit exchange organization for both students and teachers. CEEF works with the Canadian Ministry of Education and Training, government agencies, and government-sponsored exchange authorities in other countries to arrange teacher exchanges at the elementary and secondary level.
• fulbright.state.gov – Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program allows elementary through four-year college teachers and administrators to apply to one of the four options offered by the Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program.

International MBA Programs

• www.eap.ccip.fr – ESCP-EAP European School of Management offers a European MBA, a European Master in Management (EMIM) and a range of executive programs. Campuses are in Paris, Oxford, Berlin, and Madrid.
• www.imd.ch – International Institute for Management Development (IMD) is rated among the top three business schools in Europe, and offers a full-time and executive MBA.
• www.insead.edu – INSEAD is one of the world’s largest and most recognized graduate business schools, offering a one-year intensive master’s degree in international business administration.
• www.t-bird.edu/default.asp – Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, located in Arizona, offers a Master of International Management (MIM), that includes a curriculum in world business, international studies, and modern languages. In addition to the MIM degree, programs are offered in MIM-Latin America, MIM for Executives in Asia, and dual MIM/MBA degrees.

International Scholarships, Fellowships And Research Grants

• www.cies.org or www.iie.org/cies – Council for International Exchange of Scholars/ The Fulbright Scholar Program (for postbaccalaureate degrees), a program of IIE administered by CIES, is the main scholarship program sponsored by the U.S. government. Scholarships are available not only to scholars, but to students, lawyers, journalists, musicians, filmmakers, scientists, engineers, and artists.
• exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching/index.htm – Office of English Language Programs is responsible for U.S. government English-teaching support activities outside of the United States and offers three grant possibilities.
• www.iie.org/nsep – National Security Education Program (NSEP), part of the Institute of International Education, exists to help Americans understand foreign cultures, strengthen U.S. competitiveness in world markets, and enhance international cooperation and security.
• www.rotary.org/en/StudentsAndYouth/EducationalPrograms/AmbassadorialScholarships/Pages/ridefault.aspx – Rotary Foundation: Ambassadorial Scholarships has recipients from sixty-nine nations study in sixty-four different countries through grants totaling $26 million. The Ambassadorial Scholarship Program, with three types of scholarships, is the world’s largest privately funded scholarship program.

Programs For Undergraduates And Graduates

• www.ccisabroad.org – College Consortium for International Studies (CCIS) is a consortium of American and foreign universities that sponsor forty study-abroad programs in twenty-eight countries for undergraduates, and professional development programs for faculty and administrators designed to increase international awareness.
• www.disp.dk – DIS, Denmark’s International Study Program is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen. The DIS Program offers summer, semester, and yearlong study-abroad courses in humanities, international business, architecture and design, medical practice, child development, and Arctic biology (in Iceland).
• www.fieldstudies.org – The School for Field Studies (SFS) is America’s oldest and largest educational institution exclusively dedicated to training and engaging undergraduates in international environmental problem solving.
• www.iesabroad.org – The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) works with five hundred colleges and universities to blend the requirements of U.S. universities with the advantages of foreign higher education. IES offers twenty-two unique study-abroad programs in Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America, encompassing a variety of academic fields.
• www.ipsl.org – The International Partnership for Service-Learning (IPS-L) serves undergraduates, graduates, and in-service professionals by designing and administering off-campus programs in the Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, France, India, Israel, Jamaica, Mexico, the Philippines, Scotland, and South Dakota (with Native American Indians).
• www.isep.org – International Student Exchange Program (ISEP) is a nonprofit student-exchange membership organization of 220 colleges and universities in the United States and 35 other countries. Exchanges are offered in 110 locations in Europe, Latin America, Australia, Canada, Asia, and Africa for an academic semester, year, or summer term.
• www.saci-florence.org – Studio Art Centers International (SACI), centered in Florence, Italy, is one of the most recognized overseas institutions in the fields of studio art, art history, art conservation, and Italian language.
• www.schiller.edu – Schiller International University offers international study in England, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Spain.
• www.semesteratsea.com – Semester at Sea is an international program, sponsored academically by the University of Pittsburgh, that takes undergraduate students to the four corners of the world and provides the opportunity for firsthand observation and participation, thus bringing an intensely new dimension to your academic career.
• www.sit.edu or www.worldlearning.org – School for International Training (SIT)/World Learning is dedicated to furthering intercultural understanding, social justice, and world peace. World Learning’s educational and training programs enable participants to develop the leadership capabilities and cross-cultural competence.

Study Abroad – Traditional And Direct Enrollment Programs

• www.afs.org/usa – AFS (American Field Service) Intercultural Programs sends students to over forty-five countries. AFS also offers interim programs (offered between semesters) for students over eighteen, and teacher exchanges.
• www.ayusa.org – AYUSA International offers some full and partial financial assistance as well as scholarships for hosting international students. AYUSA also provides information on how to raise funds to become an exchange student.
• www.csiet.org – CSIET (Council on Standards for International Education Travel) is a nonprofit organization committed to quality international educational exchange. It establishes standards for international educational travel and exchange programs for high school students, and monitors compliance with those standards.
• www.oceanintl.org – Organization for Cultural Exchange Among Nations (O.C.E.A.N.) Outbound Program has implemented a grant program that helps deserving individuals attain their dreams with financial aid based on their specific needs. Students are selected on the basis of language proficiency and academic excellence.
• www.rotary.org – To participate in a Rotary Youth Exchange, students must be sponsored by a local Rotary club or district. For long-term exchanges of one year, the Rotary club usually pays for tuition and provides a modest monthly allowance.
• www.youthforunderstanding.org – Youth for Understanding (YFU) is one of the oldest, largest, and most respected student exchange organizations, with over ninety programs in thirty countries.

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Scholarships

• www.fawcofoundation.org – FAWCO (Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas) offers scholarships to American Women’s Clubs/FAWCO members and their children. All members who want to continue their studies (including adult members interested in continuing education), have graduating children, dual culture children age 14 or above, or children with special needs ages 14-20, are all potential candidates for the various scholarships.

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Short-Term Work and Au-Pair Programs

• www.au-pair.com – AuPair Wizard is a service from au-pair.com that allows au-pair applicants from various countries to apply for au-pair positions free of charge. AuPair Wizard has listings of au-pair institutes in sixteen countries in Europe, Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Middle East.
• www.icemenlo.com – International Cooperative Education arranges two- to three-month paid work and internships in retail sales, hotels, restaurants, au-pair situations, agriculture, education, banking, and business. Students must be under the age of thirty and some programs require a language background.

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Teach at American or International Schools Overseas

• www.iss.edu – International Schools Services (ISS) Recruiting Fair – Recruiting fairs take place in the United States for K–12 teachers who are seeking positions with elementary and secondary schools that employ American educators abroad.
• www.state.gov/www/about_state/schools/index.html - Department of Defense Education Activity. The Office of Overseas Schools/U.S. State Department is a key site to refer to if you want to teach abroad. You can find information on American-sponsored elementary and secondary schools overseas, a job-hunting link, recruiting agencies, and organizations with teaching opportunities.

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Teaching English

• careers.tesol.org – TESOL Career Service is the best place to find TESOL (Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages) teaching positions worldwide. The TESOL Placement Bulletin (ten issues) has worldwide job listings and job-searching resources. The Employment Clearinghouse at TESOL’s annual convention in March is the world’s largest ESOL job fair, where more than one hundred schools recruit applicants on site.
• www.eslcafe.com – Dave’s ESL Café is “the Internet’s meeting place for ESL/EFL students and teachers from around the world” has a host of information from chat sites to teaching tips.
• www.eslmag.com -
  Aimed at ESL professionals, ESL Magazine Online is an e-zine with articles and resources for teaching English overseas.
• www.ih-portland.com – International House (IH), the world’s largest teacher-training organization, has offices worldwide. CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) is one of the most widely recognized entry-level teaching qualifications in the world. IH offers a four-week training course, practical training, and a job-placement service.
• www.onlinetefl.com – As one of the United Kingdom’s leading TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) organizations, i-to-i offers an online TEFL course consisting of ten Web-based modules, which is similar to a four-week TEFL course.
• www.peacecorps.gov and www.worldteach.org – for more information about teaching abroad, check out the Peace Corps and WorldTeach.
• www.teachabroad.com-
  Teachabroad.com allows you to search through a directory of educational opportunities and paid and volunteer teaching positions overseas.
• www.transitionsabroad.com -
  The Transitions Abroad Web site offers a listing and description of ESL (English as a Second Language) training and placement programs.
• www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/index.html – The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program increases foreign-language education in Japan and promotes international contacts at the local level by fostering ties between Japanese youth and young foreign graduates. JET gives graduates the opportunity to teach English in Japan or participate in international exchanges for language education.
• A variety of work-abroad programs are detailed below.
  • Teaching English Abroad: Talk Your Way Around the World! – 5th edition, by Susan Griffith and Victoria Pybus (Vacation Work 2001).
    This book provides up-to-date contacts, specific job vacancy information, and real-life examples of people who have taught overseas.
  • Teaching English Overseas–A Job Guide for Americans and Canadians, by Jeff Mohamed (English International, 2000). This is a guide for Americans and Canadians that includes advice on teaching without training, choosing a training program, conducting a successful job search, and dealing with culture shock.

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Trainee and International Management Trainee Programs

• www.aiesec.org – International Association of Economic and Management Students(AIESEC) facilitates international exchanges of students and recent graduates for paid traineeships or volunteers in nonprofit organizations. Exchanges are offered in business management, technology, and development.
• www.aipt.org – Through its Career Development Exchange Program, the Association for International Practical Training (AIPT) helps graduates and professionals from eighteen to thirty-five years old arrange professional training overseas. Professionals need to have relevant work experience, students must have relevant course work, and both need to be proficient in the local language. Training programs are offered in the fields of business, culinary arts, architecture, teaching, finance, and more.
• www.cdsintl.org or www.cdg.de – The Carl Duisberg Society/Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft (CDS) offers college students, recent graduates, and young professionals under thirty several ways to gain professional work experience. CDS issues work permits valid for up to eighteen months and will assist you with finding a job.
• www.euronet.nl/users/itw – International Training Centre for Women (ITW) is designed to address the needs of women worldwide in the areas of management, entrepreneurship, training, skill development, consultancy, and research. They offer a four-week core program and a six-week extended course in the Netherlands taught in English.

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Volunteer Abroad

• www.amizade.org – On your next vacation increase your cultural awareness by lending a hand on educational, environmental, health and community service programs in Brazil, Bolivia, or Australia. See Amizade’s website for details
• www.cdc.org – Citizens Democracy Corps (CDC)/MBA Enterprise Corps. Volunteers are generally active managers or owners of their own businesses, and choose to volunteer several months of their time to help and mentor small- and medium-sized businesses. If you don’t have extensive senior-level business experience, but are in the process of obtaining an MBA, the MBA Enterprise Corps (www.mbaec-cdc.org) is a smart way to help businesses in other countries while putting your theoretical knowledge to use.
• www.ciee.org – Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) International Volunteer Project. CIEE has over eleven hundred volunteer and work projects in over twenty-five countries. The goal of CIEE’s International Volunteer Project is to promote international cooperation and understanding. Council sponsors community service and volunteer projects in thirty countries for participants from all nationalities, ages eighteen and up (the average age is twenty to twenty-five).
• www.crossculturalsolutions.org – Cross Cultural Solutions is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance to China, Ghana, India, Russia, and Peru. Each month twelve to eighteen volunteers are sent overseas to work on grassroots projects for two weeks to six months.
• www.concernamerica.org – Professionals trained in medicine, health, nutrition, education, sanitation, agro-forestry and technology can apply their skills at Concern America to help refugees in Latin America and Africa for up to two years. Your basic expenses will be paid and you’ll receive a small stipend upon returning home.
• www.globalcitizens.org – Global Citizens Network (GCN) seeks to create a network of people who are committed to the shared values of peace, justice, tolerance, cross-cultural understanding, and global cooperation; to the preservation of indigenous cultures, traditions, and ecologies; and to the enhancement of the quality of life around the world. Cross-cultural volunteer expeditions are available to people of all ages, including families, in a variety of group sizes.
• www.globalroutes.org – Through Global Routes, high school and college students can volunteer and intern in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Thailand and on the Navajo Reservation. Teaching and community service projects are a core part of the program. For costs and program information, see their website.
• www.goabroad.com is committed to providing the most comprehensive international education and alternative travel databases. GoAbroad.com utilizes data driven programming to provide the most up-to-date and accurate information. In addition to some of the largest directories of their kind on the internet, GoAbroad.com provides extensive additional information within its dynamically constructed travel guides, currency converter, and embassy directories. Under the umbrella of GoAbroad.com are the following directories:
  

  – www.jobsabroad.com – an online database of job opportunities, searchable by location or field of interest.

  – www.teachabroad.com- an online database of teaching opportunities, searchable by location or field of interest.

  – www.adventuretravelabroad.com – an online database of adventure travel opportunities, searchable by location or type of adventure

  – www.languageschoolsguide.com- an online database of language schools, searchable by location and language of focus

• www.idealist.org – Idealist.com is a project of Action Without Borders and has a thorough database for searching nonprofit organizations, volunteer programs, internships, jobs, services, resources, events, career fairs, and career information.
• www.iesc.org – The International Executive Service Corps (IESC) is the world’s biggest nonprofit business development organization. Its mission is to help small and medium-size businesses in emerging markets increase their competitiveness.
• www.kibbutzprogramcenter.org – The Kibbutz Program Center offers individuals and couples ages eighteen to twenty-eight a chance to study Hebrew and work on a kibbutz.
• www.sci-ivs.org – Service Civil International–International Voluntary Service (SCI-IVS USA) organizes international work camps and medium/long-term volunteer projects worldwide. A work camp is a group of two to twenty international volunteers who assist a community with a project for two to three weeks, mostly during the summer months. The medium- to long-term volunteer projects run from one to twelve months year-round.
• www.transitionsabroad.com – Transitions Abroad is a Web portal for most forms of paid and volunteer work abroad, living, study, and cultural travel overseas. The site offers extensive participant reports, expert articles, and resources for a variety of experiential programs as well as independent travel.
• www.unv.org – If you have at least seven years of solid work experience, you are eligible for the United Nations Volunteer Program (UNV) in international development, projects that involve feasibility studies, employee training, workshop organization, company advising, banking, health and safety support, environmental management, industrial design, and more.
• www.volunteerabroad.com – Volunteer Abroad is an excellent directory of international volunteer programs that seems to target the student market.
• www.volunteerinternational.org – International Volunteer Programs Association (IVPA) sends individuals or groups abroad periodically and for various lengths of time to work as volunteers, interns, or lay missionaries. You can choose to search the database by world region, country, type of work, or project duration.

Environmental Protection and Research Volunteering

• www.coralcay.org – Coral Cay Conservation (CCC)
  offers conservation expeditions in Honduras, Borneo, the Philippines, the Seychelles, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean for volunteers ages sixteen to seventy. The goal of the program is to help alleviate poverty by providing countries with the information they need to protect and sustain their tropical forests and coral reefs.
• www.earthwatch.org – Earthwatch Institute supports scientific research and promotes global citizenship and education for a sustainable planet. Earthwatch is a worldwide scientific research expedition for people ages sixteen to eighty-five who are driven by a desire to know how the world works and how they can help make it work better.
• www.globalservicecorps.org – In the Global Service Corps (GSC), you work on community service projects and live with local residents while learning about the host country. Volunteers must be undergraduate or graduate students, twenty years or older.

Health Volunteer Programs

• www.doctorswithoutborders.org – Doctors Without Borders (MSF) delivers emergency medical care to communities and victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and others who lack decent health care due to geographic or social isolations.
• www.hvousa.org – Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO) organizes over forty educational projects in twenty developing countries with the goal of improving the quality of the local health care. HVO volunteers must be qualified and experienced professionals and retirees.
• www.peacework.org – Peacework’s Medical Volunteer Program arranges international volunteer projects focused on medicine, community health, and nutrition.

Humanitarian Relief and Service Volunteer Programs

• www.concernamerica.org – Through Concern America, professionals in the fields of medicine, health, nutrition, health education, adult literacy, sanitation, agroforestry, technology, and community organization can volunteer to help refugees in Latin America and Africa.
• www.habitat.org – Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is a Christian organization with affiliates in over sixty countries devoted to providing decent, affordable housing for families worldwide.
• www.heifer.org – Heifer Project International (HPI) is dedicated to ending world hunger and poverty by providing families with the animals they need to become self-reliant.
• www.interaction.org – InterAction: American Council for Voluntary International Action provides free information and advice on finding employment with nonprofit organizations, and for a fee, job resources for working with nonprofit international organizations.
• www.unv.org/unvols – The United Nations accepts qualified volunteers from many countries to work in the following areas: technical cooperation for development, community projects, humanitarian relief and rehabilitation, electoral rights, human rights, and peace-building initiatives.
• www.vfp.org – Volunteers for Peace, Inc. (VFP) organizes work-camp programs linking volunteers to work-camp hosts in seventy countries in an effort to promote intercultural education and community service.

Teaching English Volunteer Programs

• www.peacecorps.gov – The Peace Corps offers one of the best overseas experiences available. Teaching English is the Peace Corps’s most popular program, but it is by no means the only one. Two-year volunteer opportunities are also available in business, environment, health, agriculture, and community development.
• www.volasia.org – VIA/Asia Public Service and Educational Exchange Programs (VIA and formerly Volunteers in Asia) sends thirty to forty English teachers, ages eighteen to eighty, to Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, and China every year.
• www.worldteach.org – At WorldTeach, you can make a valuable contribution to communities throughout Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa by teaching a life skill that will open doors of opportunity.

Volunteering Online

• www.netaid.org – You can search Netaid.Foundation.org’s database of volunteer opportunities by professional skills, language skills, topics of interest, and regional preferences.
• www.vita.org – Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) supports entrepreneurs in particular and facilitates information exchange between individuals and organizations. Volunteers provide technical assistance from their own home or office, but are not sent overseas.

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Wealth Management

• www.joseph-oliver.com – The folks at Joseph Oliver Ltd. are experts at wealth management for high net worth expatriates, foreign nationals and international investors. As off-shore specialists, they advise on all aspects of tax planning, as well as offer a comprehensive array of investment services.

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Work Abroad

• www.bunac.org – Through BUNAC’s exchange program for students and young people, you could spend a year doing a variety of short-term jobs in New Zealand while taking time to tour the country. BUNAC also offers programs to work up to six months in Britain and four months in Australia. For more details on taking part in these work abroad programs, contact BUNAC.
• www.cdsintl.org – The Carl Duisberg Society (CDS) offers work visas, training programs, scholarships and fellowships for American students to gain professional work experience in Germany in their fields of specialization. Programs range from 3-18 months. For a complete listing of programs for which you might qualify, see the CDS website.
• www.expatica.com – English-language news and information source for expatriates living in, working in or moving to the Netherlands (Holland), Germany, France, Belgium or Spain. Expatica publishes ten websites plus a printed HR newsletter and four, country-oriented Survival Guides.
• www.globalcareercenter.org – Global Career Center.com is an international career services company with foreign and domestic jobs, international resume writing services, video conferencing, and great information on work permits, immigration info and visas.
• www.jobpilot.com – Using jobpilot.com, one of Europe’s top job search engines, you can post your CV online, search for global jobs, get resume tips and interviewing advice. Job listings cover internships, freelance and contracting work, entry level and graduate jobs, and permanent positions.
• www.transitionsabroad.com – Transitions Abroad is a Web portal for most forms of paid and volunteer work abroad, living, study, and cultural travel overseas. The site offers extensive participant reports, expert articles, and resources for a variety of experiential programs as well as independent travel.

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