Call for Applications: The 2025 Community College in France Program

Call for Applications: The 2025 Community College in France Program

October 23rd, 2024 – Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education, is delighted to announce the call for applications for the fifth edition of Community College in France (CCF), a summer bootcamp program open to both students and faculty.

This program offers practical learning experiences through interactive workshops, educational site visits, and robust vocational training. This initiative is supported by a key partnership with Community Colleges for International Development.

In 2025, French universities will offer programs based on two themes:

Business and Sustainable Development: The bootcamp will highlight how economic activity, particularly through certain technical solutions, can enhance the planet’s habitability and address contemporary environmental and social challenges, such as reducing inequalities, combating discrimination, and preserving democracy.

Artificial Intelligence (IA): Recent advances in AI are profoundly transforming our societies, affecting both interpersonal relationships and the professional sphere. This revolution has attracted significant private investment and varying degrees of public policy attention globally. The proposal will help students better understand the concept of AI and raise awareness about the economic, societal, and ethical issues posed by this technology.

Community College in France combines a work-study model with low-cost tuition in French schools, coupled with a rigorous vetting process by the French Embassy, ensuring that students receive high-quality education at an affordable cost. For French schools, the program provides an unparalleled opportunity to connect with a network of U.S. schools, broadening their international reach and enhancing their educational offerings.

To host Community College in France summer bootcamps, French institutions submitted detailed proposals outlining their program topics and associated activities. This year, four distinguished French schools have been selected to host CCF summer bootcamps, each focusing on sustainability:

Application deadline: January 19, 2024, at 12 pm ET.

Students are welcome to apply here.

Staff and faculty are welcome to apply here.

 

Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education, strengthens ties between the US, France, and the French-speaking world by connecting people and institutions in the spheres of culture and education. In the arts sphere, we encourage collaboration among French and US-based organizations and provide creators and thought leaders with residencies, grants, and connections to audiences so they can explore and share new insights into society’s pressing issues. In the field of education, we craft projects and programs aimed at making French language and culture accessible to all US audiences, support partnerships between French and American higher education and research institutions and expand opportunities for students to study and complete internships in France.  

With offices in 10 major US cities, Villa Albertine is headquartered in New York’s historic Payne Whitney mansion, home to Albertine, our bookshop and nexus for French-American intellectual exchange. 

Community Colleges for International Development helps member colleges further their internationalization initiatives and develop globally competent workers by providing a wealth of knowledge, resources, and experience in developing international programs. Founded in 1976 and representing more than 140 community, technical, and vocational institutions from 14 countries, CCID is dedicated to creating globally engaged learning environments.

 

Photo: 2024 Earthwise visit in Lille.