- 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
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