- 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
- American Councils for International Education and the Portugal-based, Camões, Institute for Cooperation and Language, I.P. are partnering to strengthen the study and teaching of Portuguese language and cultures in the United States of America, and to support world language education at large. The partnership will directly promote the National Examinations in World Languages (NEWL ), a series of language assessments in critical and less-commonly taught languages, including Portuguese.The NEWL… 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
- 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
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