FY 2018 Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute
ECA-ECAPEC-18-109
Grants.gov  https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=303117

The Office of Citizen Exchanges, Youth Programs Division, of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announces an open competition for the FY 2018 Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute. U.S. public and private non-profit organizations, including accredited, post-secondary U.S. educational institutions, may submit proposals to provide a four-week U.S.-based institute in the summer of 2019. The Institute will engage 45 teenagers (ages 15-18) from Europe and 10 teenagers from the United States. U.S. Embassies throughout Europe will recruit and select the foreign participants, and the U.S. award recipient will recruit and select the American participants. The Institute will focus on transatlantic relations, leadership development, critical thinking, diplomacy, community activism, and the media as ways that young adults can unite around their common goals. Support for individual or small group follow-on projects in the participants’ home communities will complete the program.

Applicants may submit only one proposal under this competition. If multiple proposals are received from the same applicant, all submissions will be declared ineligible and receive no further consideration in the review process.

The UIowa OVPR&ED requests 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.