Welcome to OSEF Canada

OSEF (Organisme de Séjours Educatifs Français), a French association instituted through Bill 1901, founded in 1994, promotes linguistic and cultural exchanges between France, Belgium and Luxembourg and all English speaking provinces in Canada and Australia. OSEF started to look into programs with the USA and China at the end of 2007. OSEF's partners are Canadian Associations ISE and CEEF in Ontario. OSEF is supported by Canadian school boards and their French equivalent "Rectorats". It also has the support of the Ministry of Education in Belgium, the Cultural service of the French Embassy in New York, USA, and Peking, China. Summer Exchange: about 100 students participate every year in our 1 month homestay program. Canadian students spend the month of July in France, return with their French exchange partner, and the French students leave at the end of August. 9 & 11 week programme: each year, in August, over 400 students from different regions of France, Belgium and Luxembourg participate in a 9 or 11 week exchange to Canada. These exchanges are for students aged 13 to 17. French students stay in Canada from around mid-August till the beginning of November. All stay with their exchange partner's family and attend school where they are given an attendance report. The Canadian students go to Europe from February to the end of April/beginning of May (depending on the date of arrival in February) the following year. They also have to attend their exchange partner's school. Every year, Christine LENFANT visits the French "rectorats" to meet the people from the National Education and inform them about the programs. She also visits officials in Canada. This program was created by the Canadian Ministry of Education about 30 years ago.