Exchanges, excursions, forums and class trips

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Académie des langues de Trois-Pistoles offers tours for adults of the St. Lawrence Estuary.

AFS Interculture Canada is a not-for-profit association whose purpose is to promote global education and international development through intercultural exchange programs. Year-long and semester programs for students 15 to 18 years of age as well opportunities to host students from other countries.

Alberta Human Resources and Employment offers a Quebec/Alberta Student Employment Exchange Program.

Beauvallon Vacances offers cultural/linguistic excursions for student groups.

Canadian Education Exchange Foundation - reciprocal international educational exchanges - 3 months abroad plus 3 months hosting as well as summer cultural exchanges

Centre International d'Antibes and Atoll juniors offer a variety of French language courses, including programs for families, in sites on the French Riviera and in Paris

Centre international d'apprentissage du français (CIAF) is offered by the Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, at its Shippagan campus

College Saint Charles-Garnier in Quebec City offers a French high school for students 14-17.

Coeur de France offers French "immersion" classes in France for children, adults and whole families as well as optional cultural excursions.

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade International Youth Programs - if you are a Canadian citizen between the ages of 18 and 35, you can work legally for up to one year in many different countries

École de langue française et de culture québéçoise

École international de français offers language courses abroad as well as one semester and full year exchanges

Educational Tours / Voyages Scolaires

EF Education First

Expérience Authentique offers youth (13 yr old and up) and adult linguistic stays in Biarritz, France, including a parent/child program and family stays in France

Encounters with Canada - see Histor!ca Encounters below

Eurolinga Institute offers foreign language programs around the world.

CPF Alberta receives and distributes news of many resources and products designed to be of interest to students of French and their parents.  Publication does not imply CPF endorsement.

Experiential Education Ltd.

Explore (formerly the Summer Language Bursary Program) is a five-week intensive language-learning course to be taken in the spring or summer.  Participants must have completed at least grade 11.  They receive a bursary covering tuition fees, instructional materials, meals, and accommodation.

French for the Future offers the National Ambassador Youth Forum. Held in a different city each year in February, it brings together bilingual high school students from across Canada for four days of activities.

Forum for Young Canadians  is a bilingual, non-partisan educational experience for Canadian high school and Cégep students. Approximately 600 students from across the country are selected to participate each year. The “Forum experience” brings students to Ottawa for an intensive academic adventure that immerses them in the exciting world of national politics and public affairs.

Histor!ca Encounters are 7-day programs at the Terry Fox Canadian Youth Centre in Ottawa for students 14-17.  Eleven different themes.  Bilingual.

L'Auberge du Mont environmental education center offers programs for class groups

Nacel Canada offers programs in Quebec and France for individual students aged 13 to 17 as well as class trips to Winnipeg's Festival du Voyageur and Le Carnaval de Québec.

Neuchatel Junior College in Switzerland offers Ontario's Grade 12 and Advanced Placement courses.

Nova Languages is a summer school for high school students offered in France.

OSEF Canada (Organisme de Séjours Educatifs Français) offers three month reciprocal home and school exchange programs for individual students as well as one-month summer programs

Perspectives Eduscho Ltd. arranges school trips for both core French ("FSL") and immersion groups.

Prométour arranges school trips to France.

Rendez-vous Canada is a branch of SEVEC (see below) which organizes educational group tours to Quebec City, Montréal, Ottawa or Toronto.  Special tour offer for CPF member families - SEVEC is offering special Rendez-Vous Canada group tours for CPF families. Each group tour requires at least 25 participants, but they can come from different communities and even different provinces - click any destination, and then click on "Special Promos."

Rotary International offers an international Youth Exchange program.

SEVEC (Society for Educational Visits and Exchanges in Canada) is a national not-for-profit association with over 70 years of experience in organizing educational visits and exchanges for groups of students.

Summer Work Student Exchange Program is operated by the YMCA.  It runs for six weeks (from late June to mid-August) and is aimed at students 16 and 17 years of age. The program finds jobs for participants in communities in another province. Communities are paired so that students work in their second official language. During their stay in the host community, each student lives with the family of the student with whom they have been paired. Coordinators (postsecondary students) supervise the students participating in the program, and run a program of activities.

The Language Travel Company offers opportunities to study abroad.

The Learning Traveller offers programs in Quebec and France especially for teens.

CPF Alberta receives and distributes news of many resources and products designed to be of interest to students of French and their parents.  Publication does not imply CPF endorsement.