Georgia Residents Enrolled in College May Now Apply for the 2025 International Summer School Application
The Norwegian Rotary Advisory Board in partnership, Rotarians in District 1450 in Denmark, along with GRSP are proud to extend two scholarships to Georgia college students to study in Norway as part of the Oslo International Summer School (June 28-July 26) and two scholarships to Denmark at Aarhus University (June 26-July 19). Click here to view information and requirements. Get in touch with the nearest Rotary Club in Georgia to be endorsed. The deadline to apply is January 15, 2025 for Summer Session 2025.
This program is one-of-a-kind. We have been bringing nations together since 1946. The program began with only 4 scholars, and now we are proud to say that we have more than 3,692 alumni from all over the world. The program’s purpose is to broaden the understanding of world peace through people and that is exactly what we’ve done.
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Being a part of the Georgia Rotary Student Program has been one of the most profound experiences of my life. This program has afforded me the opportunity to forge lasting friendships with people from diverse backgrounds and experiences. This, perhaps, is the greatest gift that one can hope to get for it allows us to see through differences across cultures and instead find similarities between one another. I feel that such fellowship across participants, both students and host families, is what made this program such an enriching experience for me.
Ali Shaaban Shahid
Pakistan
GRSP 2013-14
Since 1946, Rotarians in Georgia, USA, have promoted world peace through understanding by offering ambassadorial scholarships to international students for one year cultural immersion and of study in Georgia colleges and universities.
Each year, students from all over the world make friends in the United States and other nations and learn about differing cultures and lifestyles. Georgia Rotarians believe “Peace is Possible” and through GRSP promote international goodwill through friendship and understanding.
The students become adopted members of a Georgia “host family,” living on-campus at the school they attend. This is an ambassadorial scholarship program, not an exchange!
Georgia Rotary Clubs sponsor students recommended by a Rotary Club in their home country.
Georgia Residents Enrolled in College May Now Apply for the 2025 International Summer School Application
The Norwegian Rotary Advisory Board in partnership, Rotarians in District 1450 in Denmark, along with GRSP are proud to extend two scholarships to Georgia college students to study in Norway as part of the Oslo International Summer School (June 28-July 26) and two scholarships to Denmark at Aarhus University (June 26-July 19). Get in touch with the nearest Rotary Club in Georgia to be endorsed. The deadline to apply is January 15, 2025 for Summer Session 2025.
School includes students from all over the world in a diverse cultural program in the beautiful city of Oslo, Norway with four weeks of academic achievement and international goodwill. Students must have a valid passport. Applications will be reviewed and all applicants will be notified by the end of January 2025.
The opportunity is open to undergraduate college students, who are Georgia residents, who have completed their first year of college by the end of Spring Semester 2025. Students must be between the ages of 20 to 24, single, in good health and academic standing plus willing to serve as an ambassador for Georgia Rotarians.
Norway Scholarship includes round-trip airfare to and from Atlanta and Norway, undergraduate coursework, administered by the University of Oslo, room, board and administrative fees for the International Summer School at the University of Oslo.
Denmark Scholarship includes undergraduate coursework, administered by the Aarhus University, room, board and administrative fees for the International Summer School at the Aarhus. The Denmark Scholarship does not include airfare.
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Georgia Rotary Student Program salutes Georgia’s own Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), for life well-lived an example of service above self. Carter died Sunday at the age of 100 at his home in Plains, Ga. He was the oldest living president in US history. Carter served as the 39th president of the United States, from Jan. 20, 1977 to Jan. 20, 1981. Carter, a peacemaker, diplomat and global humanitarian also served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967 and as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975.
He championed human rights throughout the world. He attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. He was also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2002 "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” Carter wanted to see the eradication of the Guinea worm disease, which is now in single digits.
Funeral services for Carter will span six days and three cities, including multiple stops at significant places in his life beginning Saturday, when his remains depart the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Ga., in the morning. The motorcade will travel through Carter's hometown of Plains to his childhood home and family farm before heading to Atlanta. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and other dignitaries will observe a moment of silence with the motorcade at the state Capitol, honoring Carter's time as a state senator and governor.
From there, Carter's remains will lie in repose at the Carter Presidential Center, where members of the public can pay their respects from Saturday through Tuesday. Tuesday morning, Carter and his family will travel to Washington, D.C.. to the Capitol Rotunda and the Washington National Cathedral for a National Funeral Service before a final flight back to Georgia on Thursday. President Joe Biden confirmed that Jan. 9, 2025, will be a day of national mourning, with federal offices closed for Carter’s state funeral at the National Cathedral.
Carter will be celebrated with a private funeral at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where he taught Sunday School well into the final years of his life. Following the service, Carter will be interred at the family home in a private ceremony, buried beneath a willow tree next to his late wife Rosalynn. ... See MoreSee Less
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With 27,000 acres to roam in Rome, Francisca Bastias Arevalo, 24 from Chile, stated that Berry College is as beautiful as it seems in pictures, and there are always things to do besides studying in the largest campus of the world! Francisca is studying to become an Industrial Engineer and is attending Berry through the sponsorship of the Rotary Clubs of Rome and Rome-Seven Hills. She loves attending weekly Rotary meetings and how the clubs get together to help the community with different activities.
“My GRSP has been even more amazing than I thought it could be," she said. "I love how welcoming everyone is at Berry, in my clubs and of course, all the GRSP from this year!"
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