Transatlantic Youth Exchange

Information about German-American youth exchange, from aupair stays to school partnership with North America, allocation of scholarships as well as the responsible organisations.

For scholars and young employed persons, the German Bundestag and the American Congress initiated 1983 the parliamentary sponsorship programme (PPP) which arranges an one year stay in the respective host country. The programme is run by different organisations.

AFS Intercultural Programmes

P. O. Box 50 01 42

D-22701 Hamburg

Fon +49 (0)40 39 92 22 0

Fax +49 (0)40 39 92 22 99

Email: info@afs.de

www.afs.org

German Youth for Understanding Committee (YFU)

Averhoffstr. 10

D-22085 Hamburg

Fon +49 (0)40 22 70 02 0

Fax +49 (0)40 22 70 02 27

Email: info@afs.de

www.yfu.org

Experiment

Gluckstr. 1

D-53115 Bonn

Fon +49 (0)228 957 22 15

Fax +49 (0)228 358 282

Email: experiment@t-online.de

www.experiment.org

GIVE – Non-Profit Society for International Understanding

In der Neckarhelle 127a

D-69118 Heidelberg

Fon +49 (0)6221 389 35 0

Fax +49 (0)6221 389 35 20

Email: info@give-highschool.de

www.give-highschool.de

Partnership International

Hansaring 85

D-50670 Köln

Fon +49 (0)221 913 97 33

Fax +49 (0)221 913 97 34

Email: office@partnership.de

www.partnership.de

InWEnt - Capacity Building International

Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 40

D-53113 Bonn

Fon +49 (0)228 4460 0

Fax +49 (0)228 4460 1766

Email: info@inwent.org

www.inwent.org

The German-American Partnership Programme (GAPP) puts interested schools in touch with each other and supports long-term school partnerships in order to help promote German language teaching in schools abroad. The mutual meeting of school groups shall deepen language and general knowledge about life and culture of the respective partner. The stay takes three to four weeks.

Further information gives the Goethe Institute. German schools address their applications to the Goethe Institute in Germany; American schools to the Goethe Institute in New York.

Together with German counterparts the exchange visitor programme of the U.S. Department of State arranges aupair stays in the USA. Information about the programme is available on the internetsite of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, instructions about the application for an Exchange Visitors Visa the American Embassy.

Information on youth exchanges, study, work experience and professional training in the USA is available from the American Embassy in Germany as well as the German-American Institutes in Freiburg, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Kiel, München, Nürnberg, Regensburg, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart und Tübingen. The institutions informs about general exchange programmes and keeps special partnership programmes with the corresponding institutions on location.

Various German-American youth exchange programmes are offered by the following organisations:

AFS Intercultural Programmes,

AYUSA Global Youth Exchange,

Council on International Educational Exchange,

German Youth for Understanding Committee,

Experiment,

InWEnt - Capacity Building International,

Partnership International.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers students special information about studying and internships in the USA.

With kulturweit the voluntary service of the Federal Foreign Office young people from Germany can undertake varied tasks – from homework supervision in a German school abroad to cooperation in a branch office of the German Academic Exchange Service – for six or twelve month in the countries of Latin America. All volunteers are attended and financially secured by the Federal Foreign Office.