- Editor's note: Egzon Halili is one of the newest fellows to complete a degree through the Kosovo American Education Fund (KAEF), but when he returned to Kosovo after graduation last year, he hit the ground running. He launched a company, Monego, that is already operating in cities around Kosovo. Now a CEO, he hopes to continue supporting young entrepreneurs, the same way he was supported through KAEF. This month, KAEF is celebrating awarding its 100th scholarship. You… Read More
- American Councils is pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of Visiting Fellowship Awards for Ukrainian Displaced Scholars (VFA/UDS) to a distinguished group of scholars from war-distressed universities in east and southeastern Ukraine. Fellowship awards provide a semester or year of financial support to enable scholars to continue their research and teaching activities. The Visiting Scholars Program is made possible by grants to American Councils from the Carnegie Corporation of New York,… Read More
- Three American foundations, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and The Stirling Foundation have awarded grants to American Councils for International Education to create a Ukrainian Visiting Scholars Program (VSP). The program will support displaced Ukrainian university faculty and researchers whose work has been disrupted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and continuing violence. The VSP allows affected scholars and teachers from Ukraine to resume their work in… Read More
- VILNIUS Officials are hopeful about an uptick in Americans attending university in Belarus, following a three-day education workshop. The event, which took place earlier this month, brought together educators from Belarus and the US, who discussed increasing opportunities to engage American students. The Head of the International Relations Department at Mogilev State University, Sergey Machekin, was among the attendees. "One of the objectives of the conference is to attract American… Read More
- The US Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) program has awarded $238,500 to American Councils to continue to provide scholarships to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Russian and Persian participating in its Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) in Moscow and Eurasian Regional Language Program (ERLP) in Dushanbe. US K-12 teachers are also eligible for the new scholarship funding and are encouraged to apply. A total… Read More
- American Councils is excited to announce the Accelerating Youth Empowerment through Entrepreneurship program was given the International Community Development Award by the Community Development Society. This program was implemented by the Armenia and Georgia offices of American Councils in collaboration with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension and the Network of Centers for Civic Engagement (NCCE) in Georgia. This award represents the culmination of a collaborative effort,… Read More
- The US Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) program has awarded $238,500 to American Councils to continue to provide scholarships to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Russian and Persian participating in semester-long programs in Moscow and Dushanbe. US K-12 teachers are also eligible for the new scholarship funding and are strongly encouraged to apply. A total of 30 scholarships will be awarded – 10 each for summer 2019, fall 2019, and spring… Read More
- We are pleased to announce the launch of the Academic Fellowships in Russia program. Provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the American Councils Academic Fellowships in Russia (AFR) will support US graduate students enrolled in PhD programs in the social sciences, post-doctoral fellows, university faculty, and independent scholars to conduct on-site research and fieldwork in Russia for periods of three to nine months on topics within the social science disciplines. About… Read More
- With funds from the U.S. Department of State, Title VIII provides grants for independent, policy-relevant research abroad in the humanities and social sciences as well as language training. In recent years, American Councils scholars have conducted independent research in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosova, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan,… Read More