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Our approach to faculty-led programs and short-term study abroad is in our name: custom. Like a fingerprint, each faculty-led custom program is unique, and our capabilities across 110+ countries are unmatched. By incorporating your curriculum goals, we source one-of-a-kind experiences that better prepare your students for future careers by exposing them to international culture, businesses, and academic engagements. From selecting your destination to identifying interactive engagements that bring your curriculum to life, our thematic approach ensures that your program is finetuned to the learning outcomes and unique needs of you and your students.
Once your program is developed, you’ll work directly with an account manager who will be your champion, working directly with our large team of logistical experts, curriculum specialists, and on-the-ground partners. Our long-time university partners see their account managers as an integral part of their own university teams, ensuring that your program is uniquely yours each and every year.
To begin customizing your program, give us a call at 1-800-422-2368.
Jennifer Fisher leads our WorldStrides Custom Programs team, working directly with university partners to globalize their curriculum through short-term, faculty-led cultural immersions. Jen brings a passion for customized curriculum solutions to this role after more than 25 years working with institutions of higher learning.
Croatia’s food industry accounts for a third of total manufacturing revenue and employs more people than any other manufacturing sub-sector. Visit the food manufacturing hub of Zagreb County to consider how the industry attracts significant foreign investment and has several multinational companies, including Coca-Cola, running successful operations there.
Croatia’s geographical advantage of being situated along three pan-European transport corridors have encouraged authorities to invest heavily in its undeveloped transport network. Consider how EU directives can heavily influence national restructuring reforms and modernize critical transport opportunities.
Croatia’s geographical advantage of being situated along three pan-European transport corridors have encouraged authorities to invest heavily in its undeveloped transport network. Consider how EU directives can heavily influence national restructuring reforms and modernize critical transport opportunities.
Once a Roman province and later part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the country subsequently joined the kingdom known as Yugoslavia at the close of the first World War. Following years of Communist rule, Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, and a sporadic Civil War ensued, with the bitter Croat-Serb conflict formally ending in 1995. However brief they were, those years of civil war took a lasting toll on the Croatian economy, and the country still struggles today to fully assimilate with its fellow member states in the European Union. Making the country especially vulnerable to global downturns is its reliance on the tourism industry, which accounts for a whopping 20% of GDP. Weak domestic demand, high unemployment and poverty rates, and reduced foreign investment also create sharp fluctuations in Croatia’s economy. Despite these challenges, the country has the distinct opportunity to reorient its economy towards knowledge, innovation, and transit-related services that maximize its geographical advantage as Europe’s transport hub.
