FSD trains and supports students to collaborate on significant health projects with its community partners around the world. To support advancement of its partners’ community health programs and to honor the legacy of Katie Evans, it offers the Katie Evan ...
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Combine conservation projects with community development and adventure programmes and make a Gap Year, Career Break or Summer Holiday a Life Changing experience! Placement types include marine conservation, various teaching and community projects. Project ...
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Varsity Tutors offers a monthly college scholarship contest to students who write the best essay in response to a monthly prompt.
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The Junior Professional Officer (JPO) Programme provides young professionals pursuing a career in development with hands-on experience in multi-lateral technical co-operation. JPOs are offered one year fixed term contracts which are normally renewed for a ...
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We offer internationally recognized TEFL courses in English Language Teaching to both young learners and adults. These courses are undertaken via Online Learning. As a new comer to this academic field, you may wonder what TEFL stands for. It is Teaching E ...
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The ACLS Scholarship for Healthcare Providers can support applicants in their studies, helping them complete medical school, and get a head start on their careers.
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May be awarded to Canadian Indigenous persons enrolled in an accredited institution at the graduate level who wish to study outside of Canada.
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For more than 30 years, Exodus Travels' adventurous spirit has kept them on the look-out for fresh itineraries, off-the-beaten-track destinations and fantastic settings specifically selected for chosen activities, yet always with the strongest emphasis on ...
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Through the Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship, the ACFE Foundation supports the education of students who have an interest in pursuing a career in fraud examination. The scholarship provides an opportunity for students to advance their education and a ...
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The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines an ...
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World Challenge offers long and short term adventure travel expeditions. Expeditions take place all around the globe, and range from one to four weeks. While short term expeditions focus on adventure travel, long term expeditions incorporate volunteer com ...
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The aim of the scholarship is to facilitate diversity through exposure to foreign cultures and nations by encouraging international study in the Asia Pacific region.
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Celebrating the success of post-secondary students by awarding scholarships is just one way that the Foundation aims to foster the growth of leaders, inspire the next generation, cultivate philanthropy and volunteerism, and ultimately, to ensure the healt ...
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International Relief Friendship Fund (IRFF) has carried out numerous international relief programmes over the years. Projects have included work in the education, medical and development sectors. Youth Volunteer Camps carry out similar projects. Contact t ...
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As the first company to blend yoga and wellness with first class adventure travel, The Travel Yogi set the bar for what real wellness adventures should be. Our handpicked teachers seamlessly integrate yoga into our days of hiking, kayaking, exploring, bik ...
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Women make up nearly 50 percent of the global workforce; however, gender equality is not yet a reality in senior management and corporate boardrooms around the world. According to a 2014 Catalyst Census[1], women hold only 4.2 percent of the CEO positions ...
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Awarded to University of Alberta students
to assist with the costs of travel for a formal
international academic exchange program.
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The UNICEF Internship Programme offers eligible/qualified students at both Headquarters and country offices the opportunity to acquire direct practical experience in UNICEF's work under the direct supervision of experienced UNICEF staff.
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IDRC Doctoral Research Awards are intended to promote the growth of Canadian and developing-country capacity in research to improve the lives of people in the developing world. These awards are intended for field research in one or more developing countri ...
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IDRC offers this Fellowship (a bequest from Helen S. Bentley and C. Fred Bentley) every two years in October to a Canadian, permanent resident of Canada, or a citizen of a developing country. You must be a graduate student with a university degree in agri ...
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