Introducing AIFS Overseas’s Spring 2026 Inexperienced Ambassadors
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AIFS Overseas is dedicated to sustainability, environmental accountability, 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 workers to plan and execute not less than one “inexperienced” occasion throughout their program. This occasion ought to promote sustainability and local weather training and consciousness. Recipients may also be concerned in sustainability-related content material creation.
Learn on to be taught extra in regards to 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: Information Science
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“Being a Inexperienced Ambassador means I get the prospect to convey my ardour for sustainability into a very new setting. It’s a possibility to be taught, adapt, and become involved 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 out of your program?
“This expertise will assist me convey new concepts and views again residence, particularly for the group I’ve already began in my neighborhood. Whereas I do know residing overseas will problem me, I’m certain it’ll additionally encourage me and assist me take into consideration sustainability on an even bigger scale. After I return, I wish to take what I be taught 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 residence nation, however to share my experience and information concerning sustainable options and be taught from others as a way to encourage a extra sustainable future.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come out of your program?
“The precious and numerous information that I’ll acquire in regard to this expertise will positively affect 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 numerous environmental challenges and their options.”
In response to the overwhelming international local weather disaster, AIFS Overseas has made sustainability a key precedence when contemplating organizational, operational, and programming selections. We perceive that the one method to successfully fight this disaster and mitigate the results of local weather change is to drastically scale back our environmental affect. Subsequently, 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 scale back our consumption of finite sources and limiting our carbon footprint.
- Sustainability Training for each our program members, via onsite engagement with native environmental tasks, and inside our business as a frontrunner in our discipline.
- Offsetting Carbon Emissions by buying verified carbon credit for all our program members spherical journey flights to their program location.
