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EUSA OPENS OFFICE IN GENEVA

Expands International internships for US colleges and universities

GENEVA - July 13, 2004
EUSA, a pan-European educational organization specializing in academically-directed internships and customized study abroad programs in Europe for US educational partners, today announced the opening of its newest office in Geneva, Switzerland.

"Geneva is a very exciting venue for young people interested in working with international organizations" said Dr. Aden Hayes, EUSA's director in Madrid. "Through programs with EUSA, US colleges and universities can offer their students the many professional, academic and linguistic benefits this city has to offer."

Geneva hosts the headquarters for over 180 international organizations and many multinational corporations, including the UN High Commission for Refugees, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, and the International Labor Organization, as well as hundreds of consultancies, think tanks, and NGOs supporting this global and cross-border activity.

"Geneva is an exceedingly international city," said Tony Johnson, EUSA's director in London. "It is small, safe and beautiful -- and offers American students the chance to live in French, but work in English."

EUSA's Geneva office strengthens its European infrastructure that allows colleges and universities, departments and programs, and individual professors to draw on nearly three decades of internship and study abroad experience in order to create or augment international academic experiences for their students.

EUSA helps its partners build internship programs based on their institutional calendars, budgets, and academic objectives. EUSA allows flexibility in program design, giving educational partners the ability to maintain ownership and oversight of their programs while outsourcing the logistics or management of program components to EUSA.

EUSA offers its educational partners any combination of its services, which include internship placement, program management, academic program development, and accommodation.

In addition to Geneva, EUSA operates in London, Dublin, Madrid and Paris. In 2004 EUSA will place more than 1050 students in challenging professional practice internships.