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Adventure Travel Grants

Adventure Travel Grants

If you’ve ever wanted to embark on an adventure and test your outdoor skills, you would be pleased to know that many foundations provide bursaries for amateurs and experienced travelers to fulfill their ideas and explore the world with a purpose. In this article, we will talk about adventure travel and some of the funding opportunities to support youth’s endeavors.
Financial Literacy 101: Being Smart with Money Pays Off

Financial Literacy 101: Being Smart with Money Pays Off

The term ‘financial literacy’ refers to one’s understanding of basic financial concepts and their ability to handle money well. The statistics on how a typical American handles money are pretty bleak. Also, over a quarter of them never save any money from month to month. 75% are in some form of debt. Improving one’s financial literacy can help avoid tough situations and allow people to make the most of their earnings.
Expat Hotspots to Live, Work and Thrive

Expats Hotspots to Live, Work and Thrive

The world we live in is more international than ever, giving people the ability to live and work anywhere they want. A report from 2016 stated that there are roughly 50.5 million expats worldwide. At the time of the report, there was a compound annual growth rate of 2.4 percent! Who are all these expats? 73.6% of them are individual workers while the rest are students, retirees and corporate transferees. Despite the boost in the popularity of the expatriate lifestyle, not all countries are easy to move to. Others, on the other hand, make it as simple as possible for people to come and create a home for themselves.
Concept of deep soul searching

Self-Hypnosis: What It Is and How It Can Benefit You

We are pretty much familiar with the concept of hypnosis, as a tool used by therapists in psycho-analysis and as a therapy technique, helping people understand what’s in their sub-consciousness. But can we hypnotize our own selves?
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Dow Jones News Fund College Internship

The Dow Jones News Fund seeks college juniors, seniors and graduate students to produce digital content for newsrooms next summer. Interns will build their portfolio with a paid 10-week digital media placement at a TV or radio station, newspaper website or digital publication. The deadline is on 9 November 2020.
Virtual Paid Internships at New York Historical Society

Virtual Paid Internships at New York Historical Society

The New-York Historical Society offers internships in both museum and library divisions. Responsibilities range from modeling creative exhibition layouts to researching with curators and educators. Applicants who are selected to participate in this rewarding, yet demanding experience will be paid a stipend of $1500 or receive academic credit, depending on the intern’s school requirements. The fall internship program will run virtually on 28 October – 18 December 2020. The deadline is on 9 October 2020.
Man Picks Up Lost Wallet From Ground

Are Humans More Honest Than Dishonest? An Interview with Professor Alain Cohn

Humans can be surprisingly more honest than one might imagine. The results of studies conducted by eminent researchers can sometimes be a revelation to the researchers themselves, honesty can also be different depending upon culture, education and even climate. In this interview with Professor Alain Cohn we get several insights.
Group of young laboratory scientists

Vienna Biocenter Summer School Fellowships

The Vienna Biocenter Summer School invites 30 undergraduate students to work side by side with leading researchers in a dynamic scientific environment. The program is the perfect preparation for those students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences arena. Applicants who are successful are provided with accommodation, a travel allowance and a stipend for the duration of the scholarship. The next call opens on 1 December 2020.
Procrastination can be good

Procrastination and Boredom is Not All Bad

Procrastination can actually be productive sometimes, happiness can be felt differently in the East compared to the West, use of social media can reflect on our habits related to alcohol and men have a tendency to get their perceptions about women quite wrong. We will hear about this and more in this second part of the interview with Dr. Erin Westgate.
2021 IBM Quantum Summer Internship

2021 IBM Quantum Summer Internship

IBM Research is inviting students to participate in their Quantum summer internship in the US. Internship positions in other countries will open on a rolling basis starting September 2020. Their goal is to train the future scientists, engineers, and developers across the globe who will help advance the field of quantum computing. The deadline is on 2 November 2020.
Cultural Exchange Programs

Funded Cultural Exchange Programs

“Not better, not worse, just different!” This is a go-to motto amongst exchange students when they discover new traditions and peculiarities of their host countries. Cultural exchange programs have become a solution to building bridges between countries and creating opportunities for collaboration. In this article we will cover several scholarships for creatives to immerse into new cultures and benefit from new connections.
Roma concept

Roma – an Oscar-Winning Childhood Story

The film “Roma” won Oscars in cinematography and direction, with most of the plot consisting of childhood memories of director Alfonso Cuarón. Previously, Cuarón has directed a movie about cosmic space (“Gravity”) and the road movie “Your Mama, too”. Everyone knew a lot about him as a successful director but understood little about his background. But Roma is from a strictly different perspective, with a plot about the fate of a tender woman in a raucous world, filmed in black and white without unnecessary distractions and with compelling cinematography, a unique aesthetic, and clarity of dialogue. The film reflects not only the memories but also the feelings of Alfonso Cuarón, which makes this one of his most subtle works.
Save your money

7 Ways to Save Your Money

One thing they don’t really teach you at schools or even in college is how to manage your money. Sometimes it’s a ‘locking the stable door after the horse has bolted’ scenario. You start your student life or adult life and realise your money must go much further than it does. Below we discuss why you should budget and provide a few little tips to help you do this. The first reason is…
The education of the future

Education for the Future – Which Skills Will Be Essential for 2050?

With technology developing faster than ever, the world of working is changing too. In order to keep up with the challenges of the future, education must adapt to the new environment. But which changes are necessary, and which skills will be essential for the next 30 years? In an interview with Kolbrún Pálsdóttir I wanted to find out how the world of education will have to change in the next three decades, in a world with artificial intelligence, automation, and evolving technology. 
Dale Carnegie on the Secrets of Dealing with People

Dale Carnegie on the Secrets of Dealing with People

Do you recall how easy it was to make a friend in kindergarten or at school? All it took was, “Let’s be friends!”, and so it was. Now, as you grow older, you might have noticed that that effortless and, to some extent, naïve way of dealing with people no longer works. It takes something bigger to attract, communicate with, and influence people. Curious to know what? Then keep reading, as in this article you will find the secret of dealing with people in your personal and professional life.
6 Reasons to become an international student

5 Reasons Why You Should Become an International Student

Throughout most of history, the opportunity to travel around the world and be educated in foreign lands was a dream and privilege reserved only for the most elite members of society. However, today, many students around the globe are fortunate enough to live in a time where the international study is a very real possibility.
Brennan Hatton and Rick Martin at Greenscreen Room

Tech Genius and Wall Street Broker Empower the World Through Virtual Reality

Brennan and Rick's first project was a VR training application around gender and disability. Today, more than 45 world-leading companies work with Equal Reality while their trainings are used in every single continent on the planet except Antarctica. Two wildly different masterminds have managed to developed a strong partnership with one key goal  – to enrich the world we live in with kindness and compassion, celebrating diversity.
Young engineer in the server room

Engineering Operations Technician Internship at Amazon in Italy

Students with a GPA of 3.0 and above pursuing a technical or associates degree are invited to join Amazon Web Services in Italy as an Engineering operations technician intern. The 12-hour shifts imply a time commitment of up to four days per week. Application process is ongoing. 
Engineer Designer Working on a project

Engineering Internship at Proctor & Gamble in Brussels

Summary European Engineer MA and PhD students are invited for a full-time paid internship that can run for 13 weeks up to 1 year with flexible starting dates. Candidates will be responsible for their own projects, working closely with research and development department. Application process is ongoing.
Youth Time Throwback Five Inspirational Start Ups

Youth Time Throwback: Five Inspirational Start-Ups 

Youth Time joins the rest of the world in acknowledging and celebrating the role of youngsters as drivers in socio-economic development in three levels; local, national, and global. The wellness, contribution and engagement of 1.8 billion young people worldwide is highlighted by the marking of International Youth Day (IYD), today, in 12th of August. This day seeks to recognize endeavors of the youth in enhancing society. To celebrate, Youth Time covers most interesting initiatives for start-ups run by young people from the last 5 years.

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