Dept. of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs ECA Office of Citizen Exchanges
FY 2018 Professional Fellows On-Demand Program

Grants.gov  https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=298672

The Professional Fellows Division in the Office of Citizen Exchanges at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) invites proposal submissions for the FY 2018 Professional Fellows Program (PFP) in the regions of Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, the Middle East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, and the Western Hemisphere. The Professional Fellows Program is a two-way global exchange program designed to promote mutual understanding, enhance leadership and professional skills, and build lasting and sustainable partnerships between mid-level emerging leaders from foreign countries and the United States. The defining element of the program for non-U.S. participants is a substantive five- to six-week Fellowship program, including a four-week individually tailored working placement with a U.S. organization.

Limited to one application per institution. If multiple proposals are received from the same applicant, all submissions will be declared ineligible and receive no further consideration in the review process.

Note: The UIowa OVPR&ED asks prospective University of Iowa applicants to limited ECA programs to email a one-page abstract of their proposal with a link to the program of interest to Ann Knudson ann-knudson@uiowa.edu   UI International Programs Grants Administrator, with a cc to Cheryl Ridgeway cheryl-a-ridgeway@uiowa.edu  in the UI Office of the Vice President for Research, as soon as possible, but at least 30 days in advance of the deadline.  If multiple abstracts to a given solicitation are received, an internal review will be conducted to select the applicant to submit on behalf of the University of Iowa. 

Please distribute this to interested faculty and don’t hesitate to contact Ann Knudson with questions.

Note that all ECA announcements will also be posted in the UIowa Grant Bulletin:http://grantbulletin.research.uiowa.edu. Click on the “International" category and filter by using ECA as the search term.