A gap year abroad opens the door to exciting and rewarding opportunities. Discovering a new country while gaining meaningful professional and personal experience is the perfect recipe for a productive and enriching year. Explore our programs to train, work, and travel around the world—and return home with a truly international profile!
A gap year abroad opens the door to exciting and rewarding opportunities. Discovering a new country while gaining meaningful professional and personal experience is the perfect recipe for a productive and enriching year. Explore our programs to train, work, and travel around the world—and return home with a truly international profile!
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Our gap year programs are suitable for a first professional experience abroad. Our gap year programs offer practical experience abroad to acquire soft skills, valued by employers worldwide. The minimum duration is 4 weeks to complete a gap year project, they generally include an optional language course depending on the chosen destination.
A gap year abroad is the best way to get an international experience, and an outstanding CV. It shows autonomy and adaptability, which is a requirement in all professional sectors.
Travelling with RealStep is also committing to sustainable projects, involving a positive and sustainable impact on the environment, on the community. Use your gap year or carrer break to carry out a project that matters to you.
Consult our charter to know our commitments!
To find out the costs breakdown for a Gap Year project for example, go to this page!
A gap year is a period of time in which a person takes a break from formal education or employment, usually to travel, volunteer or achieve personal development. Learn more about gap year in our gap year guide. .
There are many reasons people choose to take a gap year and travel. Some of these reasons are making a meaningful impact by joining humanitarian or environmental projects, exploring career paths, witnessing nature and global world, self-discovery or adventure. Once you know what your motivation is, you can create an action plan.
As long as you can obtain a visa, you can spend your gap year anywhere! But certain places seem to be more suitable for a gap year than others, particularly if you're searching for work or have a limited budget. Places like Australia, Canada or New Zealand, are definitely interesting to gap year takers! RealStep offers gap year programs in these countries, but in many others as well .
Learn a new language, study and work, join a humanitarian program, explore a future career path, pursue your passion .