GE4

GE4, also known as Ge4 Network, is a non-profit consortium of 40+ engineering and technology universities worldwide, registered in France. It provides global education and study-abroad experiences to higher education institutions, including students, faculty, and staff. Its flagship programs include the Global Education and Exchange (GEE) Programme and the annual Ge4 Global Education Summit.

In the early 1990s, Dr. Gertrud Humily, then in charge of international education at some French Grandes Ecoles, was frustrated at how hard it was to enable engineering students to study abroad. Henri Conze, then second State Secretary of Defense in Paris, offered her in 1996 to create an Association, the GE4 (Global Education for European Engineers and Entrepreneurs). The goal at the time was to get around what appeared to be the impossibility for French (and other European) engineering students to study abroad tuition-free and have those one or two substitution semesters fully accepted by the home university. Initially Gertrud Humily built one of the first ERASMUS programs where she gathered 26 European universities and administered the program based on a French Grande Ecole model. The program was so successful that she could soon open up the program and rapidly expand it to about 40 other European universities. Beginning with AE3: After many missions, hard work, and the support of a handful of open-minded academic leaders, about 40 North American university partners were assembled. Building upon this group was started the most important of the GE4 programs, the AE3 (American European Exchange in Engineering) program, created in 1997 in Paris, France. This model was used to later build the LAE3, ASE3, RE3 and JE3 programs, standing for "Latin American European Exchange in Engineering", "Asean European…", "Russian European….." Program. During the 'hey-days' of the AE3 program was hosted an annual conference in Europe in the even years and the US in the odd years. To facilitate some of the logistics GE4 teamed up with IIE (the International Institute of Education).

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