Industry Partner Awards
We are thrilled to announce CIEE’s inaugural Global Internship Industry Partner Awards. Finalists and winners will be recognized at the 12th Annual Global Internship Conference in London, England, June 19-21, 2024.
About the Awards
The CIEE Global Internship Industry Partner Awards celebrate the outstanding dedication of internship providers across our global network who go above and beyond to create life-shaping experiences for students. By recognizing those investing in cultural exchange, skill-building, and mentorship, we spotlight models of excellence while strengthening collaboration and impact across our community of global hosts and learners. Award-winning hosts set the gold standard for empowering students' personal and professional growth, and we want to recognize them for this invaluable work.
Award Categories
CIEE recognizes outstanding commitment across three vital areas in service of empowering students and enabling life-changing experiences: cultural exchange, skill development, and global partnership. By spotlighting excellence across these categories through our Global Internship Industry Partner Award, we aim to raise the bar for internship quality, catalyze innovation in experiential learning, and strengthen collaboration across borders.
This year’s awards honor hosts in the following three categories:
Outstanding Commitment to Advancing Global Perspectives at Work
This pioneering award spotlights internship providers leveraging students' on-the-job roles to facilitate cultural immersion with colleagues and local communities. Winners of this award open up worlds of understanding by exemplifying how to unlock perspectives, traditions, and ways of working that transcend borders.
Outstanding Commitment to Student Development
This category recognizes the internship providers who treat talent development as a long-term strategic priority. They empower students to amplify their capabilities and networks, tackle stretch assignments, secure mentorship opportunities with executives, and map fulfilling career pathways for their futures.
Outstanding Commitment to Global Partnership
This category spotlights host organizations that consistently provide exceptional internship experiences, support collaboration with CIEE in diverse ways, and epitomize the value of committed cross-border partnership. Winners welcome many interns year after year with outstanding reported satisfaction, and engage beyond hosting alone by volunteering expertise, enabling academic events, pursuing joint opportunities, and more.
Nomination and Selection Process
Internship program participants are invited to nominate internship hosts who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to empowering skill growth and cross-cultural exchange, while CIEE staff will nominate partners who exemplify overall excellence in partnership.
The nomination period runs from December 6, 2023 through January 30, 2024. Student and staff nominations will be evaluated based on criteria including commitment to student development and growth, direct student testimony, and professional community impact. Finalists and winners will be recognized at CIEE’s 2024 Global Internship Conference in London, England, June 19-21, 2024.
Please stay tuned for updates on nominees, finalists, and winners.
Questions? Contact GIChostnominations@ciee.org.