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Deadline extended for Selected Educational Seminars!
01/12/10
The Educational Seminars program invites educators from around the country to apply for fully-funded, short-term exchanges with Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico! The exchanges are from 2 to 3 weeks in duration, take place during the summer and focus on sharing best practices and professional development.
The deadline to apply is now March 31, 2010. Grantee notification dates have not changed.
Each Educational Seminar is fully funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), Department of State.
2010 Applications Available
12/07/09
Applications are now available for the 2010 Intensive Summer Language Institutes for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian Teachers.
This program is designed to strengthen critical need foreign language instruction at U.S. schools by providing intermediate and advanced level teachers of Arabic, Chinese, and Russian as a Foreign Language with the opportunity for intensive language study abroad. The summer 2010 program is open to current K-12 teachers as well as community college instructors of Arabic, Chinese, and Russian; university students enrolled in education programs intending to teach these languages are also eligible to participate. The program is funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U. S. Department of State, and administered by American Councils for International Education ACTR/ACCELS.
Newsletter Balkan Youth Voices is now available!
12/04/09
This quarter’s issue of the A-SMYLE and YES South East Europe programs’ newsletter, Balkan Youth Voices, is now available! This marks the second joint-program and first student-written issue for the newsletter.
The American Serbia and Montenegro Youth Leadership Exchange (A-SMYLE) and Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programs are fully funded by the US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Uruguay Educational Seminar - DEADLINE TO HOST IS DECEMBER 7
11/11/09
Educational Seminars: Exchanges for Teachers and Principals is pleased to announce that the deadline for the Uruguay Educational Seminar Hosting application has been extended to December 7, 2009. Download the application here:
http://www.americancouncils.org/program/48/USEEP/
The deadline for the other program applications is January 4, 2010.
A-SMYLE's Newsletter
10/30/09
Every quarter, the A-SMYLE program publishes a newsletter with articles about its students currently on program in the U.S. and its alumni’s activities in Serbia and Montenegro. This past quarter marks the first time in which students from other, neighboring South East European countries have been on program as well.
Faces of FLEX Alumni Photo Contest Launch Letter
10/29/09
The Eurasia FLEX Alumni Office is proud to announce the launch of the 2009-2010 Faces of FLEX Alumni Photo Contest. In celebration of the 15th anniversary of FLEX, the site has been updated and improved. Alumni who sign up can personalize their profile, vote and make comments on pictures, catch up with FLEX friends from the U.S. or PDOs, and become inspired by the hundreds of amazing alumni projects being held across Eurasia!
National Security Language Institute for Youth – 2010 Subgrantee Competition
10/28/09
American Councils and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announce the 2010 competition for subgrantee awards for the National Security Language Initiative for Youth. Proposals are invited for summer overseas language programs in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Turkish languages for summer 2010.
Proposal deadline: November 16, 2009. Program guidelines and proposal instructions are available for download.
The NSLI-Y student application is now available!
10/27/09
American Councils is pleased to announce that the application is now available for the NSLI-Y program for eligible U.S. high school students to learn critical languages in summer, semester, and academic year international immersion programs.
The US-Poland student and teacher applications are now available online!
10/21/09
American Councils is pleased to announce that the student/teacher applications are now available online for the US-Poland Program for eligible U.S. and Polish high school students and teachers to participate in a four-week exchange program between the US and Poland to give its participants a sense of civic responsibility and a commitment to international understanding and cooperation among youth, and to develop young leaders who will share their knowledge and skills with their peers.
Educational Seminars: NEW! Application available for the 2010 Jordan Host Exchange Program
10/21/09
Educational Seminars: Exchanges for Teachers and Principals is pleased to announce that the Jordan School Administrator Hosting Exchange Program is now accepting applications for the 2010 school year. For more information and to download the application, please visit:
http://www.americancouncils.org/program/45/JSAHEP/