- Olga Chyzhova, a 2005 FLEX alumna, is one of the exceptional people creating lasting change in her community despite the ongoing conflict as the founder of the Angels of Freedom project. Chernihiv, Ukraine, is roughly 88 miles north of Kyiv in an area that saw significant destruction during the first months of the war. Russian shelling, bombing, and airstrikes left 27 out of the 34 schools in Chernihiv either damaged or destroyed. Olga and the Angels of Freedom project dedicated their mission… Read More
- Prospective students are encouraged to apply for language and culture programs in the following locations: Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) One of the longest-running and most respected Russian language and cultural immersion programs, RLASP combines intensive classroom instruction with a wide range of extracurricular activities, including internships and community service, regional field studies, conversation partners, and discussion groups with local… Read More
- With support from the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, alumni of the Ukrainian Public Diplomacy Enhancement Program (UPDEP) continued their professional examination of public diplomacy while attending the University of Southern California Center of Public Diplomacy’s (USC CPD) annual Summer Institute at the Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. The two-week program brought together UPDEP alumni Iryna Borovets (Director General for Public Diplomacy and… Read More
- Enhancing Assistance to Internally Displaced People in Lviv With assistance from the initiative, Olena Gunko, an alumna of the Professional Fellows Program (PFP), recently secured resources for internally displaced people living in Lviv. Through her works as a Director of Information Technology for the Lviv City Council, Olena used the funds to purchase computer equipment to facilitate communication, legal, educational, and employment assistance for forcibly displaced Ukrainians. The… Read More
- The focus of American Councils’ assistance is the Parliamentary Education Center (PEC) of the Verkhovna Rada, which regrouped almost immediately after the Russian invasion. During this challenging time the PEC became a channel for relevant information and support to the Ukrainian people. Every week the PEC conducts new online meetings, classes, presentations for Ukrainian and global citizens, particularly schoolchildren and other students. The PEC offers classes on parliamentarism and the… Read More
- Gayane cites her time as a FLEX Alumni coordinator as the inspiration for her first venture into writing books. Armenian Wonderwomen, an illustrated book on influential women from Armenia, was a project co-written with Gayane's close friends from her FLEX cohort, Elmira Ayvazyan and Gayane Ghazaryan, and will be published in Fall 2022. Armenian Wonderwomen "connects the past to the present by telling the stories of inspiring women who live among us and break gender stereotypes," says Gayane. "… Read More
- The participants were part of the University Capacity Building Program (UCBP), funded by the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi and administered by American Councils for International Education, a one-year initiative to build entrepreneurial networks among Georgia’s higher education institutions and identify practices from the United States that connect research to business with the goal of increasing innovation and economic growth. The goal of the University Capacity Building Program is to… Read More
- The program, which develops a professionalized workforce of educators and administrators who support academic integrity across Ukrainian higher education institutions (HEIs) and secondary schools, has shifted to help support Ukrainian universities maintain continuity in their curriculum. Immediately after the war begin in February, the Academic IQ team began issuing weekly newsletters to the participating 60 universities with opportunities for faculty members, scholars, and students that aided… Read More
- American Councils for International Education is proud to announce a partnership with Internews Ukraine and the U.S. Agency for International Development in Ukraine (USAID) to support the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the country’s national parliament. The USAID Rada: Next Generation Program will support further development of the Verkhovna Rada to become a truly efficient democratic parliament serving the Ukrainian people. American Councils, in close coordination with its partners, will assist… Read More
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