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AIFS Overseas is dedicated to sustainability, environmental duty, and local weather motion. As a part of our Inexperienced Initiative, we’re proud to supply the Inexperienced Ambassador Scholarship to members who share our ardour for making a greener future.
AIFS Overseas Inexperienced Ambassador scholarship recipients are anticipated to collaborate with their on-site employees to plan and execute at the least one “inexperienced” occasion throughout their program. This occasion ought to promote sustainability and local weather training and consciousness. Recipients may even be concerned in sustainability-related content material creation.
Learn on to study extra concerning the Spring 2026 cohort of AIFS Overseas Inexperienced Ambassadors:
Maurycy Pedroza, Iowa State College
AIFS Overseas in Budapest, Hungary | Research Overseas Program
Main: Economics | Minor: Knowledge Science
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“Being a Inexperienced Ambassador means I get the possibility to convey my ardour for sustainability into a very new setting. It’s a possibility to study, adapt, and get entangled in a neighborhood I’ve by no means been a part of earlier than. I’ll proceed displaying up with an open thoughts and pleasure to develop from the experiences and other people I meet alongside the best way.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come back out of your program?
“This expertise will assist me convey new concepts and views again house, particularly for the group I’ve already began in my neighborhood. Whereas I do know residing overseas will problem me, I’m positive it’ll additionally encourage me and assist me take into consideration sustainability on a much bigger scale. After I return, I wish to take what I study and use it to develop within the work I’m doing in my hometown.”
Felicity Crowe, Iowa State College
AIFS Overseas in San José, Costa Rica | Research Overseas Program
Main: Environmental Science | Minor: Spanish, Sustainability
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“To be a Inexperienced Ambassador shouldn’t be solely to advertise sustainable practices overseas and inside my house nation, however to share my experience and data concerning sustainable options and study from others with a purpose to encourage a extra sustainable future.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come back out of your program?
“The precious and various data that I’ll acquire in regard to this expertise will positively influence the number of sustainable initiates that I’ve been engaged on inside my neighborhood, college, and individually. Moreover, this expertise will assist refine my profession path in sustainability by exposing me to various environmental challenges and their options.”
In response to the overwhelming world local weather disaster, AIFS Overseas has made sustainability a key precedence when contemplating organizational, operational, and programming selections. We perceive that the one approach to successfully fight this disaster and mitigate the consequences of local weather change is to drastically cut back our environmental influence. Due to this fact, we’ve dedicated to reaching carbon neutrality.
Our Inexperienced Initiative has three pillars:
- Inexperienced Enterprise that features auditing our personal enterprise practices and our program companions to cut back our consumption of finite assets and limiting our carbon footprint.
- Sustainability Training for each our program members, via onsite engagement with native environmental tasks, and inside our trade as a frontrunner in our subject.
- Offsetting Carbon Emissions by buying verified carbon credit for all our program members spherical journey flights to their program location.
