IFE: A French educational institute working in partnership with selected US colleges and universities to provide French-language-based programs for education abroad. IFE's Field Study and Internship programs -- in Paris, Strasbourg and Brussels -- enable students to get the maximum benefit from full-time mission-driven internships in every field. The four cornerstones of an IFE field-study semester: individually-tailored placement strategies; intensive classroom preparation before the internship begins; structured framework and followup of each student's work throughout the semester, independent field research connected with the internship, advised by an individual research tutor.