Why Empiria Learning

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Empiria offers a unique option for your experience abroad. We not only coordinate your ideal internship but we also provide a complete professional and immersive cultural experience in Greece and Cyprus, two pivotal countries of the Mediterranean.

We enjoy partnering with passionate and creative people and institutions who share our vision and purpose.

We promote learning by doing and education outside of the traditional classroom. Carefully crafted, highly customized, and thoroughly implemented immersion experience can help open minds and doors for new life adventures and career opportunities.

We mentor our interns and provide them with the resources and guidance needed for success, as well as the autonomy necessary for growth and empowerment.

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Comprehensive and customized program

Your internship through Empiria will be enriching and fun. We offer a full immersion experience. From basic Greek language classes and professional enrichment, to the internship and immersive trips, from the various cultural events to the comfortable housing, we meticulously plan your Empiria experience to maximize your professional and cultural growth during your time abroad.

INTERNSHIP FOCUS

A carefully crafted and thoroughly implemented internship can change your life. We get to know you and your interests. We refer you to carefully selected internship sites with which you interview. We make sure that all internship expectations and objectives are set forth in an Internship Work Agreement agreed upon by you and your supervisor in advance of your arrival to Greece or Cyprus. We offer constant support to work through any internship challenges or adjustments.

PROFESSIONAL ENRICHMENT

Empiria helps you to develop professionally both through your internship and through additional mentoring. We offer coaching sessions to help you advance your career skills.

WE HAVE THE CULTURAL KNOW-HOW

In Empiria we are passionate about cultural immersion and exchange, and learning outside the classroom. We understand your needs and we have deep knowledge of the dynamics, particularities, and day-to-day workings in Greece and Cyprus.

Education is the kindling of a flame,
not the filling of a vessel

Socrates

The light of Greece opened my eyes,
penetrated my pores,
expanded my whole being.

Henry Miller, American writer

The sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky burned
like a heated opal through the air;
We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair.
For the blue lands that to eastward lie.

Oscar Wilde, Writer

As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of knowledge.

Ithaca, Constantinos P. Cavafy

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature,
our religion, our arts have their root in Greece”

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic

Patrick Leigh Fermor, English Writer

OUR MISSION

Empiria in Greek means experience

Our mission is to build bridges for you to cross into professional and cultural opportunities in Greece and Cyprus. We help interns gain work experience, improve their skills, and advance their career prospects.

We live in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world. We work hard to expose our interns to diverse cultures, mindsets, languages, and methods in order to increase empathy and effectiveness.

We provide customized and meaningful internship programs and immersive trips in Greece and Cyprus. We further enrich the experience with engaging cultural activities, constant support, and more.

Our vision is to shape cosmopolitan citizens who bring an international perspective to their spheres of work.

Empiria Learning

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