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Information for Sponsoring Inbound Rotary Clubs
Sponsoring Outbound Rotary Clubs Rotary Club # 25 |
International Business Student Training in America through Rotary
Program Description for Sponsoring Rotary Club
IBSTAR contributes to Rotary's goal of enhancing world peace through understanding, as people from one country experience another, exchanging cultural and personal perspectives
The service project called IBSTAR is sponsored by Rotary Clubs in the Duluth/Superior area, and seeks to expose participants to "for profit "or "not for profit" economic institutions of the United States of America. The goal is to expand the economic and cultural experiences of aspiring business professionals from countries that are in transition to a free market business structure and philosophy.
The program provides an immersion experience to upper level students or recent graduates of business universities in Eastern and Central European countries, and Russia.
The eight to ten week summer experience is in institutions selected to match the interests of the participants. For example: a participant interested in the hotel industry would be sponsored by a local hotel, and a participant whose focus is utility management would be sponsored by a local public or private utility. Non profits such as universities, charitable institutions, and various local convention and tourist organizations have also served as sponsoring institutions for participants whose interests lie in similar areas.
During the program, participants live with "host" families in the community, usually members of a local Rotary Club, but not necessarily so.
Participants must be at least 21 years old prior to arriving in the US, and should be in or have recently completed their 4th year of university or college level study toward a professional degree in an economic or technical field.
Applicants for participation must have the endorsement of a Rotary Club in Europe or Russia prior to submission of their application. All applications are screened by these sponsoring Rotary Clubs for appropriateness of the application; language ability; age; etc.; and those acceptable are forwarded to the Rotary Clubs in the Duluth/Superior area that are participating in this program. The participating Rotary Clubs then match the candidates with institutions that have volunteered to open their operations to a trainee. The institution "hosting" the participant in a professional setting makes the final selection decision.
Each participating Rotary Club is responsible for finding a host family for their trainee, and funding certain costs associated with program participation.
