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Internationalize Your Campus Today with Global Student Leaders
Add diversity to your campus with outstanding students from Kosovo, Pakistan, and Tunisia! IREX is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications from universities and community colleges to...
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Colombian Teacher Honored for Advancing English Education
Since her participation in the 2009 Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) program, Romero has won three education grant awards and hosted three US teachers at her school in Montería, Colombia. Now,...
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Happy Holidays from IREX!
IREX staff from around the world wish supporters, participants, partners, alumni, and friends a wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year. IREX staff from around the world wish supporters,...
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IREX President Joins the Boards of Key Youth and Global Development Advocacy...
IREX is pleased to announce President and CEO Kristin Lord will be taking on important leadership roles in the international development community. Lord has been named co-chair of the Alliance for...
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USAID, CourseTalk, IREX & TASCHA Launch $1.55 Million Initiative to Bring...
Online courses have the potential to expand quality education and career training worldwide, but few people in developing countries access them. Now, the U.S. Agency for International Development...
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Global Community Leaders Bring New Perspectives to U.S. Partners
The 2015 Community Solutions Leaders have arrived! This is the fifth year of the Community Solutions Program (CSP), which connects community leaders from over 30 countries around the globe with...
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Apply Now to Host a Mandela Washington Fellowship Institute
The U.S. Department of State and IREX seek U.S.-based colleges and universities to implement the 2016 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders Academic Institutes. Hosting a cohort of...
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2016 Community Solutions Program – Applications Now Open!
Do you work to create safe spaces for women and girls in your community? Do you advocate for clean energy, green schools, or banning plastic bags? Do you work with youth to build more peaceful...
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Apply Now for the 2016 Mandela Washington Fellowship
Applications for the 2016 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders are being accepted now through Wednesday, November 11, 2015. In the summer of 2016, the Mandela Washington Fellowship...
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Teaching for Peace in Ukraine
“I considered my country to be one of the most peaceful places in the world,” says Olena Umanets, a Ukrainian teacher. But the armed clashes in Ukraine, which left nearly 8,000 people dead over the...
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MOOC Expert Committee Launches to Advance Online Learning
Online courses have the potential to expand quality education, provide scientific and cultural content, and offer career training and professional development worldwide. To this end, a public-private...
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IREX Seeks Experts to Select Community Development Fellows
Be a part of a global professional development program that promotes community development, gender equality, government transparency, and much more! IREX seeks qualified experts to take part in the...
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The Global Classroom: Bringing Delhi to Vermont
Like teachers everywhere, Ron Eisenman wants to expand his students’ horizons. “Our school is really trying to focus on creating global understanding,” says Eisenman, who teaches 10th grade social...
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Apply Now to Internationalize Your Campus!
IREX seeks US-based colleges and universities to host undergraduate exchange students in the 2016-2017 academic year. In collaboration with the US Department of State, IREX will select US institutions...
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Building Back Better for Persons with Disabilities in Nepal
“This is the right time for people like me to speak up,” says Sagar Prasai, a Community Solutions Program (CSP) leader and Nepali activist for disability rights. In the wake of two devastatingly...
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Breaking the Cycle of Violence: A Global Challenge for Youth
If given the chance and the right tools, young people can create a culture without abuse and violence. Jasmine Uribe knows this well as National Youth Organizing Manager at Break the Cycle. “We...
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Teaching the Need for Gender Equity in Peru
English teacher Bluidson Cardenas Ledesma, also a participant in the Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Program, is transforming education in Peru by building support for gender awareness...
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Happy Holidays from IREX to You!
From around the world, IREX staff wish supporters, participants, partners, alumni, and friends a wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year.From around the world, IREX staff wish supporters,...
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IREX Begins New Work Bridging Civil Society and Media in Guatemala and Rwanda
IREX is pleased to start work on two new USAID projects leveraging its expertise in civil society and media development. As part of a larger USAID Civil Society for Accountable Governance and Citizen...
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Tackling the Rising Human Trafficking Crisis in Libya
“It began by an idea and a need to tackle a crime [being] swept under the rug,” says Community Solutions LeaderZakariya El Zaidy of the origins of his civil society organization (CSO), Mercy Wings...
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