Info For You Lot Fulbright Scholar Plan Inwards Scientific Discipline As Well As Applied Scientific Discipline For Africa As Well As Midpoint Eastward (Discontinued)

Fulbright Scholar Program inwards Science in addition to Technology

Course(s) Offered: Science, Technology, related fields
Course Level: Graduate (Ph.D)
Provider: CIES (Council for International Exchange of Scholars)
Country to Study in: USA

Scholarship Description
PLEASE NOTE: THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED
(see Previous Programs on official site via link below)

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational in addition to Cultural Affairs (ECA) has announced a contest to position potential host institutions for the 2011 MENA Regional Short-Term Visiting Scholar Program (MENA S&T).

The program’s purposes are to promote faculty evolution in addition to to construct higher didactics capacity inwards scientific discipline in addition to applied scientific discipline fields inwards the participants’ domicile countries.

The plan volition lay the foundation for participating scholars in addition to their U.S. hosts to prepare long-term institutional relationships in addition to to position areas of cooperation that tin endure sustained afterwards the grant period.

Eligibility / Eligible groups
Scholar participants volition come upward from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, West Bank/Gaza, in addition to Yemen.

Participating Institutions
Several selected higher educational institutions inwards the U.S.

Fields of study
Each of the selected U.S. institutions volition host a cohort composed of 5 scholars inwards i of the next 5 fields:
  • Science in addition to Technology
  • Engineering
  • Environmental /Earth Sciences
  • Agriculture/Food Security
  • Information Technology
The programs volition endure held inwards the autumn of 2011.

Number of awards
25 scholars from 12 countries inwards the Middle East in addition to North Africa volition have grants to participate inwards i of the 5 discipline-based cohorts.

Sponsorship duration
The whole duration of the program

Scholarship benefits
To back upward both institutional in addition to scholar participation inwards this program, the next funding volition endure provided:

Host institutions
  • Universities volition have $5,000 per scholar to help embrace administrative costs.
  • Host institutions volition endure reimbursed upward to $4,500 per scholar for housing in addition to upward to $1,000 per scholar for lab fees or expenses associated amongst access to academy resources.
Scholars
  • Participants volition have stipend payments straight from CIES to embrace meals, local go in addition to other incidentals in addition to a professional person allowance.
  • CIES volition supply all scholars amongst medical coverage for the duration of the grant period, every bit required for J visa recipients.
  • Travel from the grantees’ domicile countries to the orientation inwards Washington, D.C., from Washington, D.C. to the host institution, in addition to at the destination of the plan from their host institutions to their domicile countries volition endure arranged past times CIES staff.
Method of Application
For the Institutional Proposal Cover Sheet AND Host establishment Guidelines; run across the Proposal Form in addition to Guidelines page.

You may download application forms from the official website (link below)

DEADLINES:
All applications to this plan must endure received NOT LATER than Feb 1st, 2011.

PLEASE NOTE:
This program, for reasons which are withal to endure made public, has since been discontinued past times the USA government. Other Fulbright programs bring besides been developed.

Contact
Please post inquires in addition to proposals to MENAST@iie.org

Application Deadline: 1 Feb 2011
Open to International students: Yes (ONLY Middle East & North Africans)

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