New Generation Exchange is a new exchange program, it caters for a new age group and in Denmark NGE is open to young adults between the ages of 20 and 25.
The objective of this program - as with the others - is to create goodwill and international understanding through vocational training and cultural immersion.
The program is open for students or young professionals between the ages of 20 and 25. Young people who have started, or in the middle of, their further (higher) education.
NGE involves a commercial aspect in accordance with the applicant's career plans and aspirations, and of course aspects of cultural understanding and tourism during their stay.
New Generation Exchange can vary in length, usually minimum 3 weeks and maximum is 3 months. Candidates can depart any time of year depending on agreement with host club.
For the time being we have chosen to concentrate only on individual exchanges, in Denmark and we consider NGE as a program which must contain vocational training or education plus cultural understanding. If you are purely interested in the latter (the cultural element), NGE is not for you. We recommend you apply for Short Term Camp instead! Neither is NGE a holiday or a chance to brush up foreign language.
NGE is a serious, well-planned stay in a foreign country, quartered with one or more screened and approved host families, during which you will receive vocational training related to your education and preferred wishes (i.e. the training is work-related and without pay) during the daytime. Evenings and weekends are yours to experience and explore the country you are in.
In Denmark we will therefore select our Danish outbound applicants on the criteria that vocational training is a genuine desire, and a major part of the exchange since the daytime during the exchange will be dedicated to such activities. We hope and expect that the overseas partners we enter into exchange agreements with will take the same attitude when selecting and screening NGE applicants.
NGE can take place any time of year, but must of course avoid the target country's holiday and religious highpoints. Danish Rotary clubs, for instance, will generally not be able to host inbound NGE visitors in July and last two weeks in December. The same can apply for outbounds NGEs from Denmark, although at different times of year of course, and this has to be agreed between home and host districts.