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CELL Iceland Study Abroad Program

CELL's unique study abroad programs focus on sustainability through community and are designed for students who believe that they can make a difference in the world: students who would like to play an active role in creating long-term solutions to problems facing our global communities and environment. Semester programs consist of a combination of structured course work, field-learning experiences, service-learning opportunities, and development of individual action plans for environmental stewardship. Our programs are interdisciplinary by design and fit any major or program of study. CELL is partnering with Solheimar, an ecovillage of about 100 people renowned for its international, artistic, and ecological atmosphere. Solheimar is the first self-sufficient community of its kind in the world, where people with special needs and those without live and work together in a community committed to environmental sustainability. Inspired by the theories of Rudolph Steiner, Solheimar has focused on cultivating the individual and the environment and was the first community of its kind in Scandinavia to practice organic cultivation. Through participation in a CELL/Solheimar study abroad program, you will work along with community partners to create appropriate and innovative solutions to issues of sustainability. You will become a member of a very special group of people committed to achieving sustainability through community. We invite you to join us for an Icelandic educational adventure. During a CELL Iceland Study Abroad program, you will spend approximately 12 weeks: * Living in a unique eco-village committed to achieving environmental sustainability through community * Learning about the principles of sustainability from a country leading the world in the production of clean, renewable energy * Living a carbon negative lifestyle and playing an active role in helping to reduce global carbon emissions * Exploring some of the world's most geologically unique and breathtaking sites * Learning that although the impossible may take awhile, it is, indeed, achievable.