This year, CEPA will attend the Forum’s Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada, alongside members of the Global Learning Collective.

logo Global Learning Collective

The Global Learning Collective represents a collaboration of five independent organizations that share similar values and the same commitment to meaningful international education:

  • CEPA – offers customized faculty-led programs and educationally focused itineraries in Europe.
  • Asia Institute – partners with educational institutions to design and implement comprehensive internationalization strategies in Asia.
  • Campus B – develops meaningful international education programs in Latin America.
  • EDU Africa – develops and facilitates transformative learning journeys in Sub-Saharan Africa.

We are excited to meet you .

Date: March 19-21, 2025
Location: Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

If you haven’t scheduled an appointment, yet, make sure to stop by and visit us in the Exhibition Area: TABLE #18

Safe travels and we’re looking forward to seeing you in Toronto,

Uli Leibrecht
Executive Director
Grace Haines
University Relations and Program Manager

In a session at the Forum on Education Abroad Conference in Boston, MA, our Academic Director, Marketa Lepicovsky, shared her research on using AI to create education abroad prediction models and assigning the top word categories that best predict faculty-led program success.

Read the article from The Pie News

March 8, 2022

Uli Leibrecht, Executive Director, is pleased to welcome Marketa Lepicovsky, Ph.D. as Academic Director to the CEPA team in Germany, effective March 1, 2022.

In this new management position, Marketa will provide superb leadership while introducing fresh ideas and perspectives across the entire CEPA portfolio of programs, services, and initiatives.

By overseeing and upholding CEPA’s commitment to excellence, she will foster ongoing relationships with study abroad staff, faculty, and administrators at partner institutions to continually ensure the academic quality of faculty-led, summer, and semester study abroad programs.

Marketa joins the team with more than 16 years of experience in international and higher education. Prior to joining CEPA, she managed international education and study abroad programs in both Germany and in the Czech Republic, including student services and teaching.

She earned her Master’s Degree in Art Education from Ohio University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Ohio State University. Most recently, she had the unique opportunity to live in Taiwan where she obtained a Ph.D. in Business Administration at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.

We are excited to welcome her into this vital role at CEPA and are confident that her exceptional experience and strengths will further advance the excellence of our team and organization.

Sincerely,

Uli Leibrecht

Executive Director

CEPA GmbH and CEPA Foundation