• New! Individual Education Abroad Award

  The Education Abroad Program is pleased to announce the new Individual Education Abroad Award program. This award supports undergraduate and graduate students undertaking any academic study, work term, or volunteer opportunity outside of Canada for a period of three weeks or longer...full story

  
  

• CIDA funding supports maternal health, student’s global experience

  Master of Public Health student Catherine Arkell is working to improve the physical health of women in Kenya... ...full story
  

• U of A students RISE above with summer internships in Germany

  

  Walking through Munich’s main square, Joyce Fung was a little surprised to hear beautiful music floating through the air. She was even more surprised to find that the source was a man who had secretly transported his grand piano into the town square to play for pedestrians...full story

  
  

• Cristiana: the Duchess of EARL

  

  For some students, travelling overseas to study may seem like an improbable dream, but for students at the University of Alberta, those dreams often become a reality....full story

  
  

• Imported from Canada: France work abroad

  

  It was September of 1986, with my birthday just days away, when I arrived in Paris. I was exhausted. It was near midnight, pouring rain and the Gard du Nord was frightening. I had the phone number and address of relatives of some friends of my sister...full story

  
  

• Dreaming big, a child at a time

  

  Taking someone else's dreams into your own hands is scary, admits Renee Vaugeois, '04 MA. The political science grad has long been interested in international aid and community development, but when a friend she'd met in Uganda shared his dream of starting a school to help orphans in his community, Renee admits she felt a little overwhelmed...full story

  
  

• Travel experience will influence career in criminology

  

  As a criminology student at the University of Alberta, I jumped at the chance to volunteer in South Africa at the Restorative Justice Centre this past June and July...full story

  
  

• U of A mural captures what’s best about studying abroad

  

  In August 2001, I departed Edmonton for Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, located in the central steppes...full story

  
  

• A Mexican Catholic's adventures in Korean Buddhism

  

  It is very hard to write about the experience I had while I was on academic exchange in Korea from the University of Alberta. It is even more difficult to crystallize it in my thoughts....full story

  
  

• Hong Kong exchange prompts questions of identity

  

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