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1. Fulbright Programs




1.5. Alumni Initiatives Awards



This is a program to provide Fulbright Senior Scholar Alumni small grants to develop and sustain ongoing contacts and partnerships initiated as a result of their Fulbright experiences in the United States.

Program Description

A project to foster institutionally supported linkages and sustainable mutually beneficial relationships between the scholar's host institution during his Fulbright grant, and the local university with which the scholar is currently affiliated. Eg.:

  • Joint curriculum development projects.
  • Distance learning innovations.
  • Faculty and student exchanges.
  • Publication of joint print/electronic journals.
  • Summer seminars for students, faculty, administrators.
  • Faculty/administrator training.
  • Ongoing collaborative research.
AWARDS will range from $1,000 to $20,000.

Requirements
  • Alumni with current affiliation with a university or institution in Uruguay which will assume responsibility for administering the grant, and will support the joint project
  • Involvement of scholar's host institution during the Fulbright grant.

Elegibility
  • Uruguayan faculty and professionals who received CIES-administered grants during the previous 5 years.

.: DEADLINE for presenting proposals to the Commission: May.
There will be an international competition for the awards, and grant funds will be made available beginning in October.