By Jibril Abdul Mumuni
Accra, July 25, GNA- A total of 108 Ghanaian students are set to participate in the 2025 Europe Summer Camp and Educational Tour.
This figure was disclosed by Mr. Edward Obiri Ampong, Managing Director of Edibeck Consult, the organisers of the exchange programme, following a pre-departure briefing HELD in Accra.
The briefing, on the theme, “Bridging Cultures, Building Futures,” marked the final preparations for the Ghana-Netherlands Exchange for Global Youth programme.
It provided participants and their families with essential travel guidelines, cultural orientation, and programme expectations.
Organised by Edibeck Consult, the initiative aims to enhance cross-cultural understanding and equip young Ghanaians with global competencies through immersive educational experiences in the Netherlands and other European countries.
Participants are expected to spend one week at the camp, where three distinct activities are arranged, encompassing both educational and adventure elements.
The second part of the programme involves an educational tour within the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and France.
Mr. Obiri Ampong, in his address, stated that his organisation plans to foster institutional collaboration between universities in Ghana and the Netherlands to promote joint programmes, research, and exchanges.
He noted that since many of the participants were high school students, their next level of education would be at a tertiary level.
To this end, Edibeck Consult has signed an agreement with the Ghana Communication Technology University to kick-start the Netherlands exchange programme in 2026.
This, he explained, would also open up educational opportunities in the Netherlands for Ghanaian students.
“ For this reason, as part of the exchange programme, participants will visit some selected Dutch universities, starting next year as prospective international students for those institutions.”
“Since it is a global world and education is becoming competitive and also expensive to handle, starting next year we will also explore academic opportunities, scholarships, and innovation hubs in the Netherlands for our enrolled campus and Ghanaian students who will be travelling with us,” he said.
Mr. Simon Madjie, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, emphasised that governments did not possess all the resources to travel around the world to promote and “sell” Ghana.
He urged the participants to leverage the exchange programme to create networks and friends with nationals of other countries.
He added, “The fourth point is the power of friendship. Don’t limit yourself to people that are not from Ghana. Take their contacts, their phone numbers, their email addresses. Stay in touch with them. The biggest guarantee you can have is the friends and the relationships that you form. Luckily, we are very fortunate.”
GNA
Edited by Samuel Osei-Frempong