 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) logo The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX, German name: Parlementarisches Patenschafts-Programm or PPP) is a youth exchange program founded in 1983. The program, which is dually sponsored by the United States Congress and the German Bundestag, funds exchange programs for German and American students through grants to private exchange organizations in both countries. The funding in the USA is administered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State (and formerly by the United States Information Agency until the agency was dissolved) on behalf of the United States Congress. Foreign student exchange is a collective term for programs which provide high school or college students with the opportunity to study abroad for mostly a year. ...
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The program was established to celebrate the 300th anniversary of German settlement of the United States and has been renewed by both legislative bodies since its inception. Thus far, over 17,000 German and American students have completed their exchange through the program, which provides a full exchange year complete with orientation and language programs and travel opportunities within Germany and the United States. The exchange year culminates in a conference in Washington, D.C. in which German and American students reflect on their exchange year and share their experiences. Jump to: navigation, search Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ...
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The scholarship program is merit-based and is funded based on congressional district for Americans and Bundesland for Germans. It also comprises a Young Professionals program (administered exclusively by the Carl Duisberg Society International, better known as CDS International) and vocational school exchange components (administered exclusively by Nacel Open Door), for students ages 18-24. Jump to: navigation, search Bundesland (plural Bundesländer)is the German language name for the federal states of Austria. ...
High School program
The largest portion of the scholarship program has been the high school scholarships. Originally the program was only open to high school sophomores and juniors, who would spend their scholarship year in Germany during what would be their junior or senior year in high school. In 1995, a new program was started, offering 10 scholarships for high school seniors, to spend a year in Germany after graduation. Currently the program makes 250-280 (the number fluctuates, depending on funding) national scholarships available to any high school student between the ages of 15-18, with a 3.0 or higher GPA on a 4.0 scale, and who is a U.S. citizen, national or permanent resident. Applications are due in December of the year prior to the scholarship year; applications received by 16 December 2005 will be considered for the 2006-2007 scholarship year. After receipt of a full application, select students will be offered an interview, conducted by selection committees in various locations in the United States. These selection committees then put forward the names of the best candidates to receive the scholarships, which are usually approved by the administering organizations.
The following organizations currently administer the high school program by regions:
- American Field Service (AFS) - Northeastern United States
- American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) - Midwestern United States
- American Scandinavian Student Exchange (ASSE) - Northwestern United States, Alaska and Hawai'i
- Academic Year in the U.S.A. (AYUSA) - Southwestern United States
- Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) - Southeastern United States
American students who win the scholarship usually spend a full year (July-July) in Germany. The first few weeks of the program are taken up by an Orientation and Language Seminar, where several of the high school students will be living in the same town, each with their own German family, for the duration of the seminar. The remaining eleven months of the program usually see the students spread out over Germany, assigned to a second host family (though some do opt to stay with their first host family, by mutual agreement). They attend a German high school for an academic year. There are other programs that are carried out over the course of the year, including trips to the capital in Berlin. Jump to: navigation, search AFS volunteers and ambulance in World War I. The American Field Service (AFS) was established in 1915 by A. Piatt Andrew, a political economics professor at Harvard University and a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. ...
Young Professionals program Americans in Germany on the Young Professionals program are subdivided by their ability to speak/understand German, and sent to a language and orientation seminar for the first month, similar to the high school program. Some program participants are placed with host families, but others live in a dormitory for the duration of the seminar. After the seminar, they are placed in various work programs throughout Germany. Germans living in the US for their portion of the program are usually enrolled into college courses for the first semester, purchase their own automobile, and then have a job (internship, co-op, or full-time) for the remaining semester of their stay.
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