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Beijing Jingshan School

The Newton-Beijing Jingshan School Exchange Program, between the Beijing Jingshan School and the Newton Public Schools in Newton, Massachusetts, USA, is the oldest exchange program of public secondary school students between the United States and the People's Republic of China.

Martin Potůček

Than he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science (receiving a M.Sc. in European Social Policy, 1991) and took part in numerous professional fellowship and exchange programs, including Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships in the U.S. (1992), at the Oxford University (1993–1994), at the University of Konstanz (1997–2000), at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna (1998) and at the CEU in Budapest (1998–2000).


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Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Gundelfingen

Its Australian partner school for the exchange program for female participants is the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School.

All Saint's Episcopal Day School

Eighth Graders participate in an international exchange program with a school in Ecuador, and spend 10 days living with host families in Quito.

Bancroft School

2009: Signed agreement with Tongji University, Shanghai, China, to establish a teacher and student exchange program between Bancroft and Tongji’s Number 1 High School.

Ben Wyatt

His parents were both school-teachers on an exchange program—his father, Cedric Wyatt, was originally from the Pilbara, and his mother was originally from Newcastle, New South Wales.

Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro Campus

The high school has recently gained the interest from schools abroad with the intention of creating a foreign exchange program, receiving visits from high schools in France and South Korea (due to a partnership between the Hyundai Motor Company and the Bergen Tech Automotive major).

Charles Kaisin

After two internships in Jean Nouvel’s studio in Paris then with Tony Cragg in 1997, he took part in an exchange program with the Kyoto University for the Arts in 2000 during which he conducted research on new materials.

Circle Ten Council

Circle 10 Council has strong International Scouting ties, particularly with Scouting Ireland with whom they have set up a Scouting exchange program every summer.

CYMA – Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia

CYMA - Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia - is a volunteer run humanitarian and student exchange program in support of the Republic of Armenia created by Archbishop Hovnan Derderian and Ronald Alepian.

École centrale de Marseille

Being a part of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network, the school has exchange program with many universities accross the world, among them TU Munchen (Germany), Cranfield University (UK), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Penn State (USA), University of Sao Paolo (Brasil), University of Waterloo (Canada) or Keio University (Japan).

École de l'air

In 1969, the École de l'Air began an exchange program with the United States Air Force Academy, for eight cadets per school each year.

Edward D. Thalmann

In 1985, Dr. Thalmann, now the Senior Medical Officer at NEDU, was selected for the NATO Undersea Medicine Personnel Exchange Program and assigned to the Royal Navy Institute of Naval Medicine, Alverstoke, United Kingdom.

Fulbright Commission Belgium

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the United States State Department.

Gifu Pharmaceutical University

Since then, it has set up exchange program's with the pharmacy program at both the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and the University of Florence, which were started in 1991 and 1993, respectively.

Great Baikal Trail

At the same time, two organizations – the Federation of Sports Tourism and Mountaineering of the Republic of Buryatia and Earth Island Institute's Baikal Watch in San Francisco, USA – were awarded a joint grant from the Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation for the an exchange program to share experience in trail construction.

Imakane, Hokkaido

Imakane Junior High School has an exchange program with Burnside High School, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Institut supérieur d'électronique de Paris

Other famous partner universities offering exchange program include University of Bologna (Italy), Cranfield University (UK), National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan), Sogang University (South Korea), Vellore Institute of Technology (India), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Hong Kong), University of California, Davis (USA).

International Parliamentary Scholarship

In 1989 a similar internship program with France was established, which was an exchange program between France and Germany, i.e. German graduates could also do parliamentary internship in the French Parliament.

John Carroll University

John Carroll University's Exchange Programs include the International Student Exchange Program, and programs at Kansai Gaidai University, Nanzan University and Sophia University, all in Japan as well as the Dortmund University of Technology, Germany and University of Hull, England.

Jonathan Hey

The study is a fundamental part of the training system for ocean data and information management in the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Program (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission providing the overview for the topical division Information Technology and Scientific Communication.

Kaltinėnai

Since 1992 the school has participated in a foreign exchange program with the German Hankensbüttel Gymnasium.

Lake Park High School

Lake Park has an exchange program with Helene-Lange-Gymnasium in Hamburg, Germany, allowing students to experience each other's culture and lifestyle.

Lancs Industries

As a native of Lancashire, England, Hollingsworth was an employee of British Aircraft Corporation working as an aeronautical engineer who came to the United States in 1966 for an engineering exchange program with Boeing Aircraft.

Lars-Göran Lönnermark

Lönnermark studied at Michigan State University in 1958-1959 through the international exchange program, where he became a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity.

Leonardo da Vinci Gymnasium

Also, there is an exchange program with schools in Mexico (Guadalajara) and China (Bejing).

Lindsey Vuolo

In 1999 she went on a two-week exchange program in Israel, and describes her experience at the Western Wall as a profoundly emotional and transformative one for her.

Mark McGough

After his AFL career, McGough spent part of 2007 on an exchange program in the United States, studying journalism at the University of Arizona and later that year spent time in South America.

Mark Poepping

Mark Poepping studied National Economics at German Universities of Paderborn, Bonn und Hagen and attended Nottingham University while on a students exchange program.

Mathias Cormann

As part of his university studies Cormann participated in a one-year student exchange program at the University of East Anglia in Norwich in 1993–94, where he first learnt to speak English.

Matt Hern

In 2002, Hern and a colleague started a Youth Exchange Program between East Vancouver and Fort Good Hope (Radeli Ko) in the Northwest Territories.

Metzler Visiting Professorship

The Metzler Visiting Professorship in International Finance, founded by the German private bank Bankhaus Metzler in 1992, is an academic exchange program between the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, and the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

Michael Scammell

Between 1981 and 1983 he lived in New York, chaired a seminar on censorship at New York University, ran an exchange program with Eastern Europe funded by George Soros, and attended weekly meetings of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Montessori Oberschule Potsdam

The first is an American-German exchange program with their partner school Franciscan Montessori Earth School/St. Francis Academy located in Portland, Oregon.

My Scary Girl

As part of an international exchange program with the Daegu International Musical Festival, the New York Musical Theatre Festival presented the Korean version of My Scary Girl on October 1-4, 2009 at the Acorn Theater in New York City.

Nan Lin

In 1979, he established contacts with sociologists in the People's Republic of China and established an exchange program between Albany and Nankai University.

National Music League

American musicians to have participated in the exchange program to France included Sidney Harth (1951-1952), Theodore Lettvin (1951-1952), Lillian Kallir (1953), James Wolfe (1954), Shirlee Emmons (1954), and Betty Allen (1955) among others.

Natsumi Tsujimoto

She was also sent to Los Angeles in the United States with Miyuki as part of a foreign officer exchange program with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Peter Hruby

He studied Philosophy, Psychology, Literature and Languages and organized three national programs: Week of Children’s Joy, 1946 & 1947 (introduced by President Edvard Beneš), Cultural Unity’s Youth Club, and a vacation exchange program for Czech and Slovak children (introduced by President Benes’s wife).

Phạm Thị Huệ

In 2001 Huệ was selected to represent Vietnam in several cultural exchange programs, including a traditional music festival in Thailand and a cultural exchange program between the Malmö Academy of Music and the Vietnam National Academy of Music.

R. F. Patrick Cronin

In the early 1960s, he initiated an exchange program between McGill and local doctors in Nairobi, Kenya, and he later worked for the Osler Medical Aid Foundation, now known as the McGill International Health Initiative.

Sara Fabel

As part of her studies, Fabel partook in an exchange program with Griffith University located in Brisbane, Australia.

Shimizu, Hokkaido

In 1993, Shimizu and the town of Chelsea, Michigan began a sister city exchange program, where groups of 7th and 8th graders from Chelsea visit Japan and stay with a host family for just under two weeks.

Sigmar Wittig

Professor Wittig was instrumental in starting an exchange program between Purdue University and the University of Karlsruhe called the Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE).

Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu II

The Fighter Exchange Program is intended to be a tie-in to the Career Mode of the EA Sports MMA game, and features multimedia documentation of four young prospects (Bettega, Cummins, Martytniuok, Phillips) traveling, learning, and training with four established veterans (Jacare Souza, Jason Miller, Gegard Mousasi, Luke Rockhold).

Takasu, Hokkaido

Takasu has a domestic school exchange program with Takashima Town in Nagasaki Prefecture.

The Southern Theater

It maintained close ties with Stockholm’s Södra Teatern (Southern Theater); an exchange program allowed actors from one Southern to perform at the other when visiting Minneapolis or Stockholm.

Tōno, Iwate

In 1990, the high schools of Tōno and the Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences (CSAS) in Chattanooga, Tennessee were paired by School Partners Abroad to establish an exchange program.